This is G/O media so more like “Ten best ways to approach your roommate when they leave car parts in the dishwasher”
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If you use a truck for work, it better also be MISERABLE to live with, amirite? Read more
“It’s a cellular phone, a wireless computer, a PDA, a games console, and a camera all in one. It doesn’t do any of those things well, mind you, in fact it sucks at most of them compared to dedicated hardware,” Read more
I don’t understand why so many people...usually non-truck people...equate a single-cab 8-foot bed truck with “work truck”. Granted, most manufacturers present their stripped-down extended-cab models as work trucks for fleets, but most independent contractors and tradesmen I know drive crew cabs because they like them,… Read more
Beat me to this response. I have a Ram cre cab with a 5'7" bed and I do a ton of traveling with it. Example, 3 friends and I went to the Carlisle big rig show, we loaded up the bed with all our duffle bags, alcohol, a big utility cart to haul around the show, etc. There was plenty of room for us and all of our stuff… Read more
Yeah, I always kind of laugh about it too. I own both a 2 door and a 4 door pickup. I think most people greatly underestimate the utility of some extra cab space and overestimate the utility of a foot or two more bed space. There is a reason 4 doors fly off the shelves, even for most fleet vehicles it seems these days… Read more
Its only like 8" longer than a most sedans. It gets better gas mileage than most sedans. It cost the same as most the sedans. But it is way more useful than most sedans.
Sure, I am an original Ranger owner, for over 28 years! I had a 1993 XLT Supercab with the 4.0L engine, even had a camper shell. Just sold it hours after posting on Craigslist for $4,000 (a grand more than I originally wanted), even though it had terrible paint, falling down headliner and 200,000 miles! Read more
Everyone here pretends single cab pickups are viable and manufacturers just refuse to make them.
Depends on the truck, the 4-door trucks started internationally by the way, everyone blames the Americans for making everything too big, but it was the international market that created the 4-door truck and the midsize variants we have today. Read more
Cars across the board have become larger than their 1990s counterparts. In today’s world, in context with other trucks on the market, it is a compact truck. Maybe not on a global scale, but here in the US for sure. Even compact cars today are the size of mid-size sedans from 30 years ago, but we still call them… Read more
This is a silly argument. A Ford Ranger super cab was 204 inches long with a 125 inch long wheelbase. A Maverick has a 200 inch length and a 121 inch wheel base. If you made a regular cab Maverick it would most likely be even shorter than a regular cab Ranger.
Is the bed that much smaller? The “old” (pre-12) Ranger had a 7’ box max, but most trucks had a 6’ bed. The Maverick gets four real seats and a 6’ bed with the tailgate down. Yeah you’re sacrificing maybe 9” of bed space, but you’re getting a back seat that can fit humans. My point is, seems like a small compromise… Read more
It’s small and that’s okay. In fact, it’s a good thing.
It also had a cracked windscreen and loads of warning lights, the alignment is the least of it’s problems. It’s either already failed inspection or is expected to.
Did you hear the noises it made when turning to the right under any load?
Makes me think of when Honda applied their CVCC tech to a 350 small block... in 1973. The CEO of GM said the CVCC was suitable for “toy engines”.... It’s a great story.
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I mean, it has to actually work. Read more
We stan bi ~visibility~ 😌
If it’s a problem, you could always look into other options and see how it... pans out?
(turns out making a pansexual dad joke is tougher than expected)
But what if my headlights are Bi-Xenon? Read more