Buying Vehicles

[Sapper31]

Question for you all:

Reading the 2/2.2 edition rules, and really the 1.0 rules as well..

Do you let your characters purchase vehicles with their starting money? I know there is a dice roll that effectively nets them free vehicles, but are they allowed to buy vehicles as well? Other than confirming they are allowed to buy motorcycles, there is no explicit statement toward if they are/are not allowed to purchase other vehicles.

I am starting a game with 5 people, and collectively we have over 100,000$ to spend on starting equipment. By far the limiting factor is carry capacity of the starting vehicles (we got 2 HMMWVs). The amount of money you get seems excessive unless you are intended to buy vehicles, yet the challenge seems greater without.


What are your thoughts on this?