My first car

My first car was a glorious 1994 Ford Explorer XLT. In its prime, it was a rugged and top of the line SUV worthy of long vacations with lots of luggage to haul. These days all its good for is driving around town and taking trash to the dump. The once pristine and efficient V-6 engine somehow became a gas guzzler... giving me a pathetic 10 miles to the gallon. The only really great part about my truck in this day and age was the 4 wheel drive. It worked like brand new and was perfectly capable of powering through snow, mud, a random field, etc. Compared to SUV's these days, my truck was super slow. It had a 0-60 time of around 9-10 seconds but that was good because it kept me from getting speeding tickets. The other issue with this generation of Explorer is the high tip over rate. This was before Ford figured out how easily their SUV's can roll and right around the era of the Firestone recalls, which of course came standard on the Explorer. I was just waiting for one of my tires to blow and flip me over but it never happened. Unfortunately the Explorer is no long with me, RIP. I decided to sell it when I came to school. It needed a brand new compressor as well as almost an entirely new suspension which totaled around $1,800 in work. I decided to cut my losses and sold it for $1,000 cash. It had 130,000+ miles on it so I felt like it was time to let go. While I never drove the explorer through its glory days, it was good to me and was a great first car.