Best Winter Truck For $2500?

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If you must have a 4x4 Jeeps are great, and that 4.0 is a very dependable engine. If you won't drive anything with a Ford badge then buy the Mazda, same excellent truck with a different badge on it. B2200, B3000, B4000 they're all great trucks (the different numbers are for what engine it has, 2200 has a 2.2L I-4, 3000 has the 3.0 V6, 4000 has the 4.0L V6). The Ford Ranger has the highest customer loyalty of any vehicle and for good reason, so I'd expect it's Japanese clone to be the same great vehicle.

If you don't HAVE to have a 4x4 spend your money on some good tires (I like Bridgestone Blizzaks) and drive your RX7, that should do just fine in the snow and ice as long as it's not several feet deep. Tires make all the difference, my Mazda Protege will get stuck in 2 inches of snow with my Summer tires on it but just last night I busted through a 2 foot snow drift with my snow tires on it.