This is by far the best interior for people who actually work. Seriously. You can do everything with your work gloves on. The screen is fine. It’s just a display. Since you have actual buttons, a touchscreen isn’t even needed.

Yes. Nearly all factory hitch receivers have a fixed socket, usually a 7-pin and a 4-pin. We use 1-7/8" (47.5mm) for light trailers, 2" (51mm converted but probably is the same as your 50mm) for most boats and cargo trailers, and 2-5/16" (59mm) for car and heavy-equipment trailers and camper trailers, which may weight…

This is definitely not better. Besides being fugly, what happens when you swap balls for a different size?

The problem is two-fold:

Not a hatch. Crackpipe.

I’m no fan of the Promaster, but the Chrysler powertrain isn’t one of its problems. The 3.6L Pentastar make decent power (80 more than the Sprinter) and the 6-speed auto works fine within its limits.

Except this van has a conceptual 4x4 system too. The pics clearly show it still has the dropped solid non-drive axle (trailer style) that all the FWD Ducato vans have.

That’s not how real tandem axle trucks work either. They have a pass through, but with a planetary gearset at the front axle which splits power just like a differential. Trucks intended for off-highway use will have a locker on this as well, but not most OTR trucks. None of them just link the differentials together.…

I’m not sure that would help. There doesn’t look to be any way for the axles to equalize the load. Most heavy trucks use “walking beam” axle, and most Over-The-Road trucks use cross-linked airbags, so the loads are always equal on all four drive tires. The newest OTR trucks are only 2WD, and the center axle lifts with…

I’m pretty sure that’s exactly it. And from the owner’s walk-around vid, he has no idea how it works. Possibly doesn’t even now how to shift the rear T-case, and probably doesn’t understand that any old rusty Ford with vacuum hubs requires manually locking the front hubs for 4-wheel drive to work. I feel especially…

Have you not driven a modern direct-injection turbo? People would try to compare peak HP numbers when the EcoBoost and similar motors came out 10 years ago. Torque is what you feel (and the turbo has way more, much earlier), but also the turbo power-plant will have much more area under the curve, even if peak HP is…

To me, it’s not the vertical elements on their own.... It’s that the integration  with the rest of the body design is poor.

Van sales are probably way higher than most folks assume. This is only 2nd quarter!

I’m pretty sure that’s a Ford Escape.

There’s a plus and minus on the shifter and/or flappy paddles. So that makes it a manual, right?

So would you drive this from the middle seats? Or move the engine to the back?

You could probably get a modern version done easy by taking a Sawzall to an Expedition EL, and finding a use topper from a 5.5' bed F150 to close it in.

You can head in as soon as they start pumping. Just don’t leisurely start leaving the car only after the pump clicks off.

One Ford sales manager posted on here a couple years ago, stating the profit margin on the F150's optional wheels was more than the entire margin on a Focus.

Double? I want what you’re smoking. These are all over the place, at dealers even, for this price. But every single dealer listing I saw in that price range, looked pristine and with lower miles.