Truck sporting a scrotum dangling from the trailer hitch.

Conventional trucks are generally cheaper to build and service than their cabover counterparts.  Cabovers are shorter and appeal to tight quarters which is why they are popular in the EU.

It’s nice to cite trucks as the reason for the increase but I have to believe the increase of idiots in cars is as much of a contributing factor as the trucks themselves are.

Yeah, I have to wonder how hard the PO was on the poor thing.  It had 115K on it when I got it.  The engine sounded like someone chucked a socket set in a clothes dryer.  When I pulled it, I found a junkyard heat tab on it s0 in 115K miles they had lunched TWO motors.

No, sorry.  We pay for the service at work and they deliver it to us via email.

I hope you never need a blower motor.

I love mine. 2007 5 speed manual. Both this one and the blue 2008 got late model 2.5 Ford Fusion engine swaps. Kid wrecked the blue one last month, we pulled the engine and are currently looking for another one to put it in.

Just checked Polk and they show a whopping 325 of them still in operation (for all years)

I LOVE my 2007 Mazda5 - manual trans even! Scored it a year ago with a blown engine and swapped in a 2015 Fusion 2.5 engine with only 10K on it. Was super easy.  In the background is a 2008 I picked up for my kids.  Did the same Fusion swap.

My great-uncle owned a farm with nearly a mile of land backing Interstate 5 south of Portland. I remember more than once going out on the tractor to collect truck wheel/tire assemblies that had wound up in the field. He had a stack of them next to one of the barns that he would periodically sell to the local tire…

I’m betting that family emergency has something to do with the loss and need for immediate replacement of the familial crack pipe.

Your move, creep.

*Ford Ka has entered the chat*

Price has been dropped to $6500 so I’d guess the $5999 would get it.

It’s priced at $6,500 now and it looks like the hood wrap is part of the company fleet (you can see it on the other trucks in the background).

Yeah, it could have been made CA compliant for not a ton of money really, relatively speaking. For me, that would have gone a long way towards changing my ND to NP - still wouldnt have flipped the switch but would have made me go

$100GRR and this is what you get for A/C?

For starters, the painted outside driver door handle looks broken. Not having a functioning drivers door handle is a decent quirk level.

Reminds me of our ‘77 Rabbit diesel. Went in to Harbor Freight for something and came out to someone sticking fliers on cars for a UPS store. I pleasantly asked the person to not put one on my car - they stuck one under my wiper and said “you’re welcome”.

Saw one of these with Rivian Mobile Service livery the other day here in Norcal.