This is retro done very, very right.

Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes!

If it has a manual transmission, and it can fit my legs, I might be buying a car. I love how low the belt line looks on the car. It could have the best visibility of any car in the past 20 years.

The reality is that the “dirty” diesels are still perfectly clean.

Thank you for taking the time for writing this piece and for including cites. Seriously, I appreciate the time it took and found it informative. I think the time has come to revisit the rules and the bureaucracy that’s evolved to administer them.

If I crank up my 2-stroke weed-whacker and chainsaw and do yard maintenance for a few days each year... I’ve likely polluted much more than a modern VW TDI pollutes in it’s lifetime. The current crisis is being reported as if VW was committing a significant crime against nature (pollution), when in fact the real crime…

This is not just an F-150 with upgraded bits, this is an entirely unique truck in regards to chassis and drive train, that just happens to use the same cab as the F-150. GM and Ram are the same way, completely different frames and drive lines with a shared cab.

Did the current SD have a console shifter option? That just seems like a waste of space, especially in the one class of vehicle that is most likely to be used for real work

Personally, I would rather have it on the column especially on a work grade truck. It leaves room for tablets, laptops, clipboards and such.

Using the same cab as the F-150 is a great cost-saving and repair-procedure-simplifying move. Kudos for that!

Way better than the current model.