Says one person on the Internet. The thousands of potential buyers IRL say otherwise.

TIL SuperCrew/6.5's have a two-piece driveshaft. Logically, a SuperCab/8' would too.

If we’re going by width (which I always do), 50+. Full-size pickups achieved full-size width (78-80", same as the full-size cars of the time) in about 1960 or ‘61 depending on model.

CAFE regs mean that for a truck the size of a RCSB Ranger or S10 to meet MPG standards, it’ll have to be a unibody/FWD vehicle, like a Transit Connect pickup or something. I don’t think this is a bad thing for what most buyers would use it for, but it would probably affect its towing ability (if not its hauling…

V6 for the American Ranger? Of course.

There are places where having a physically smaller vehicle that can still tow and haul light loads is worth the money.

I could be totally wrong, but wouldn’t it more likely be an old-school BOF RWD platform, like an ‘86 Gran Fury?

He was verified by the mods...and then a day after he started it, deleted his account.

The ‘02 F-150 is only appreciably smaller than newer models in one dimension—length (okay, and wheelbase), because of a 6" cab stretch in 2004 (2009 for SuperCrews). It looks smaller yet, because newer F-150s have “filled out” their dimensions with taller front ends. But they’re the same height and width.

Globally, the same as the Ranger. 5-speed manual, 6-speed manual, 5-speed auto.

And if you read between the lines, this guy didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already have a good idea of...before he deleted his account.

Thank you for actually using the right specs when comparing the 10th gen F-150 to newer trucks. Really, the only dimensional difference between a ‘97 F-150 and a ‘17 F-150 is in length—there was a 6" cab stretch from 03-04 (regular/SuperCabs) and 08-09 (SuperCrews), and overhangs have remained essentially the same.…

>mfw I was the one that sparked that first comment

It won’t be a compact, no, but it’ll still be smaller than any F-150 since ever.

Gallons of ink on a website? Oh no, don’t let it get on the servers!

It’s a combination of different in-universe desgin philosophies and some out-of-universe stuff.

I see it as this: everything at the Scarif facility was at least doubly redundant, except the Death Star plans, which were unique to that facility. So once those were compromised, there was no real reason not to press the big green delete button.

Re: your last comment—of course we can’t forget that Ford Fusion commercial, “car cannot fly.”

It’s pronounced Willis, as far as I know.

Newer tractors have a front PTO, which was originally a European thing before it came over to the U.S.