Good luck, man. If you’re ever in Sonoma County I’ll buy you a coffee.

But the guy THINKS David is funny, so you just helped to convince him.

Ten owners, 20 years, 68,000 miles.

Man up, buttercup. Stick shift, two seater, and a diesel to boot!

Apparently it’s now 5'9" for men and 5'4" but... 67" of headroom is LOUSY.

Tall? If you’re TALL?!? Jesus H. Christopotamus, y’all - the average American man is 5'10" and this has 5'7" of headroom and I might not fit if I’m TALL?!?

That seems pretty reasonable to me. Especially if the monthly-use tow rig isn’t a $70,000 luxo-barge.

I also had a box-stock ‘89 F250 4wd standard-cab with a 460, a C6, and all the heavy-duty trailer and tow parts you could shake a stick at. It got 10.5 mpg around town, it got 10.5 mpg on the highway, and it got 10.5 mpg hauling eight-foot-beds full of dirt and rock on logging roads. Those old beasts were absolute…

Given that the next article in my Jalopnik feed deals with Bronco roof issues, I think waiting a year or two for Ford’s seemingly inevitable ‘Poor Quality Is Job 1' issues to be resolved is the wise move.

Same here. My truck is a ‘95 Nissan Hardbody with 220,000 miles; I mainly use it for hauling bikes to trails or loads of crap to and from dumps or stores or daily driving if my ‘commuter’ is getting work done.

I had an ‘89 F350 4wd crew-cab with a 460, a C6, a three-inch lift, and a massive lumber rack. It got 7.4 mpg around town, it got 7.4 mpg on the highway, and it got 7.4 mpg flat-towing a 1969 AMC Rambler 440 over 150 miles of hilly freeways.

How far do you need to tow your 3500 pounds, though? The F150 Lightning is rated to tow up to 10,000 pounds, with most of the ‘max tow range’ estimates that I’ve seen running 100 to 125 miles.

Yep. The half-ton market seems ripe for electrification to me; the super-duty class not so much until storage density has gotten a lot better. Although the EV Hummer’s 1000+ lb/ft of torque is certainly enough to get a trailer started up a ramp...

Towing is like group sex; most people talking about it aren’t actually doing it, and most of the people who are doing it are doing it a lot less and a lot less intensely than they’d have you believe, and the relatively few people who are doing it all the time have organized their lives so as to accommodate their…

Ayup!

Especially since the Pontiac weighs just 3150 pounds, meaning that 5.3 swap is just a cam swap away from 9 lbs/hp. Some DOT drag radials on steelies up front and you could irritate a lot of guys who think they’re fast.

Move the battery to the trunk and you’ve pretty much negated the change in weight distribution.

Put the extra stone on some weed paper and cover it; the stone you’ve already spread will settle and compress and the extra will come in handy.

Surely you’re not accusing Ford of being as unreliable as BMW?

Well, if they advertised the car by claiming that it was benchmarked on the 911 GT3 and BMW M4, it better be able to last as long as a 911 GT3 and BMW M4...