What's your day to day ride?

[Old Moparz]

Daily driving gets split between my 2013 300C & my most recent purchase, a 2024 Ram 2500. Deciding on what I take depends on where I am going & whether or not I am picking something up. A few weeks ago I went to NYC & took the 300 because I had serious doubts that the Ram with the taller cap was going to fit into a parking spot or even clear the ceiling of a parking garage. 

After 22 years of driving my 2004 Ram 1500 I had to force myself to replace it. It still ran great but it was starting to need a lot of work along with rust coming back. If not for the rust I'd still have it & would've just fixed the issues it had. Steering rack was leaking, radiator & heater core were struggling, tires wouldn't get me through the winter & it had a handful of minor bugs & annoyances that the guy who bought it wasn't concerned with. 

[LaOtto70Charger]

Side by side that 2024 looks gigantic!

[Old Moparz]

Side by side that 2024 looks gigantic!

The picture is slightly deceiving because of the angle, but there is a fairly big difference. The height is the most obvious & it's much more apparent when reaching over the tailgate. 

I used to keep an expanding cargo bar across the bed of the 2004 about 16 to 18 inches inward. In between that & the tailgate I had a milk crate with jumper cables, oil, hitch ball & rags. On the 2024 I did the same thing but had a hard time reaching in to move it. Bought a used pair of the Swingcase tool boxes cheap, mounted only one & solved that issue. 

[Kern Dog]

I know that we have only two choices when it comes to cars and trucks to buy. We either buy new ones as needed or try to keep our old stuff running as long as possible.
Newer trucks look terrible to me. The blunt front end looks as if they really embraced the Kenworth/Mack truck styling. I really don't like how tall and thick they look nowadays. I remember thinking that my 2007 Dodge looked thick but hey, it does have a slope from the windshield to the grille and the front is more bullet shaped than any new truck.
I don't mind a boxy looking truck in general, a 73-87 Chevy and a 72-93 Dodge are both square-ish in design. I love those styles. Park a 1993 Dodge next to a 2026 Ram and notice how thick they are from the bottom of the rocker panels to the roof. I can't get over the difference.
Because of that, I'm sticking with my 2007 even though I'm well over 400,000 miles!