Wow man... I hate to hear this but I understand your position.
You gonna keep your next purchase off road related or something different?
Casey, not being a true part of the forum anymore will be the thing I miss most about Xterra ownership I think.
EDIT: I wrote a book to answer a simple question, but my long winded post does a good job of explaining why I'm doing this I think. So sorry for all the words.
Anyways, I may get a lot of hate for this. But when I was 16 or 17 and first got into cars and the auto industry in general all I ever cared about was having a new edge mustang gt. When I quit college to work full time and started making decent money I one upped myself and got a mach 1. I loved everything about it except for the fact that it was my only vehicle. I liked that it was fairly new with low miles (at the time) I liked being a real part of car meets, hanging out at the track, all the stuff that comes with car culture. Unfortunately a stupid deer, extremely wet roads, and a poorly placed embankment ended the mustang back in 2010.
At that point all of my buddies were in the offloading scene, and as much as I would have liked to get another car right after the wreck, I knew I wouldn't be happy daily driving it. So I started looking at 4wheel drive SUVs, which naturally led me to a JK. I was young and had to have a cosigner to get a loan at the time, and my step dad, being the old school hard ass that he is would not cosign on a Jeep. Mainly because he isn't a big Mopar fan (I'm not the biggest Mopar fan now) and because he considered them unsafe. So thats how I decided on the first Xterra. I wanted a 4 door JK, but since I couldn't get one, I decided an Xterra was the next best thing. This was the grey X. I kept that for a while and liked it, wheeled it some, but when my credit got good enough and I moved out, I went and got the JK that I wanted.
The JK was just so cool at first, but it was a nightmare with all the little problems and crappy dealership experiences I had. If it would've been a 10 or 15 year old TJ with a few quirks here and there I would've dealt with them and probably would still have a Jeep now, but it was an absolute POS as far as a new vehicle goes. So I went back to an Xterra since it was the other option in the 4wheel drive SUV world and I had a good experience with my first one. This was the white Xterra. I loved everything about ownership of that white Xterra. But as you all know it got totaled. So that gets me to last September when I bought the blue one, and I've pretty much explained myself from there.
Anyways since the day I lost my mustang and bought my first Xterra back in 2010, I knew that I would have another pony car/sports car someday. I'm actually wanting a 5th gen Camaro SS. I drove one thats on a lot less than a mile from home the other week and I really liked it. But I also want to drive 2011-2014 Mustang GT too, since I really like the Coyote engine. Plus what I'm looking at will lower my payment, insurance quotes are not much more than the X, and if I keep my foot out of it on the higway, will get better gas mileage than the Xterra.
As far as the 4 wheel drive, I want something a lot older and a lot cheaper. I have a lead on a solid axle Toyota truck and a nice bone stock Cherokee for really cheap. I just like the idea of having two vehicles. Plus with an old 4wd I can leave the car in the garage when its nasty out, and I can beat on the 4wd a lot harder than I can now, since I have the car to get me to work if need be. I know that I'll never have a really nice car until the Xterra is paid off, and I just can't take that anymore.