[muddywater]

Frank, you TOWED a 23 with a TAURUS!!! You guys ARE nuts! LOL That is too funny. We have to see a pic of that!!!

Thanks for the input. I have been researching Tacomas, Frontiers, and the Canyon/Colorado and had been pretty shocked to find out the gas milage they get with 6's (and a 5 in the Colorado). Their observed milages were as bad (even in the 5-cylinder Colorado) as what I got on my last two trips with my Z71. That is with 50% of my time spent in 4 wheel drive in some nasty stuff. I find that very difficult to believe, but haven't found any way around the facts. That is why I am now looking at 4-cylinders. I imagine there will be alot more people making this consideration when gas reaches $3 a gallon (which I think they said could be coming in the next 6 months).

I hit the water most weekends from April to the beginning of November, but tow less than 15 miles on what you guys would consider backroads with no stops between the ramp and storage. I average 580 miles a week (mostly highway), so if I could go with a 4-cylinder and live with the performance, then I could buy another boat with the difference. I gotta' get a 4-stroke outboard too, my trusty old carb Merc drinks gas like CSC'ers drink beer.

-Muddy