as far as good vehicles for daily driver......1999 ferd ranger has been doin the heavy liftin and hauling my a body's when I need to get good gas mileage and for the super heavy lifting hauling my 28 foot enclosed trailer is 1988 chevy dually club cab....not my choice but was the only extra cab I could find at the time. and you can look as hard as you want you will not find a foreign car at my place unless I have visitors.....my dad would beat me Lol