road_pizza v 2.0

6/14/19

Alternate headline:

I drove my $500 postal jeep to a wedding and was invited never to return.

6/14/19

Psst: Wait for something called the Courier.

6/14/19

When I was in high school, barely over 100 pounds and could bend like stretch armstrong, yeah I wouldn’t mind getting back there. Today however, I might have to see a chiropractor if I tried sitting back there

6/14/19

Someone once gave me some good advice. Instead of comparing dimensions to the old Ranger, compare them to the old Explorer Sport Trac. The change in size makes more sense that way.

6/14/19

You might save money to begin with, but you would be throwing money away. The Frontier has by far the steepest deprecation of any mid-size truck

6/14/19

I await the return to Semaphore Indicators.

6/14/19

I’m 1000 percent into those folding seats^.

6/14/19

I’m old enough to remember when this is what the rear seat of a Ford Ranger looked like. If you were over 95 pounds you were going to be cramped back there.

6/14/19

I had that pad on my Flex. It was the nuts. I can’t believe they’d put that plastic stick on junk on a brand new vehicle.

6/14/19

Right. That’s^ what I mean!

6/14/19

But did anyone call the cops on you while you were sleeping at a gas station in the Ranger?

6/14/19

Wow, that keypad looks worse than the one on the ‘95 Taurus I had as a kid. Especially weird since Ford knows how to do this seamlessly:

6/14/19

I actually bought a fender flare, a quarter-window, and some headlight trim for my ’91 XJ (I had been hoping to score a front axle, but the Jeep in the junkyard had the wrong axle ratio). I brought the tools to the wedding in case I found a car I wanted to buy (since vehicles in Virginia usually don’t rust too bad) and…

6/14/19

The Taco’s cab is pretty egregiously bad. The Taco is certainly a reliable truck and very capable off-road, but the Ranger is a lot more comfortable place to be.

6/14/19

What the Ranger has going for it is that you can get an absolute base stripper model with the 2.3T and 10 speed. So for $27K you can get a quad cab truck that can tow 7500 lbs and has good power/torque along with a very good trans for towing.

6/14/19

pfffft

6/14/19

“Turn... indicatah? Da fuckisdat?”

6/14/19

Just bring back semaphores and traffikators and call it done.

6/14/19

You expect people to interrupt their phone calls to operate a turn signal?