Posted on 12/13/2011 5:57:25 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
isn’t the Tacoma supposed to be pretty good?
Close but no.
Ford is selling the Ranger in other countries and is rolling out its new advanced diesel engine - for the rest of the world.
Still doesn’t make the cut.
Even if it did guys, they are simply going to keep raising the standards until we all have to use mass transit or drive mopeds...
Yesiree, I like your truck. Substantial, Bendix rear axle with eight lug wheels all around and a hydraulic dump to boot. That one will do some work. These features used to be all we needed to worry about as long as it would start and run when you wanted it too. Now, we have to worry whether we have enough money to fill the gas tank.
Yup. I knew people would like it. That 69 Power Wagon has hauled an awful lot of material. The body sucks, but the running gear is great. The hydraulics are PTO-driven. My dog loves it.
What more could a man desire in a truck?
Something Detroit doesn't make.
The only thing I'd trade it for would be a Mitsubishi Fuso FG, 4X4, 2-1/2T flatbed dump tubo-diesel cab-over with a winch, but somehow that extra $40K eludes me.
Repeal all new CAFE standards. This is an issue that I think is right up there with Obamacare. Roll it back, park it, pick it up and scrap it.
Please freepmail me if you wish to be added or dropped from the mitten ping.
The Ranger PU was also a “personal vehicle” for Americans who only occasionally, or not at all, needed a truck!
It symbolized the individuality, freedom, ruggedness, etc. that real freedom-loving Americans are!
The American car, especially PUs and SUVs, symbolized this more than anything else.
“They” want to destroy this image of the free, individual real American—make no mistake about that!
Did I mention Free Individual Real Americans (not AINOs)?
Semper Free Individual Real Americans!
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I believe CAFE will phase out the F-150 and all half ton pickups.
To avoid Cafe they will have to go to the 3/4 ton trucks. Which of course cost more and burn more fuel.
A friend recently bought a Ford F-250 with turbo chargers and spent $58,000 dollars for it. To work on the thing you have to remove the cab. Also it doesn’t get any more than 20 MPG.on a good day.
Looks like it came out of the same wind tunnel as the Toyota Tundra.
For a second, I thought it said FUBO ha!
When the new truck CAFE standards were passed, I predicted automakers would limit truck sales to high end SUV’s and very large work trucks.
They can only sell ‘luxury’ trucks, where there is a market willing to buy at a higher markup. This is because every truck sale will probably have to be offset by a near zero profit econobox sale, to make CAFE.
It accomplishes two things, as far as liberals are concerned. Our cars get smaller, and truck ownership is no longer in the reach of the ‘little people’. Its all very European.
Ditto, I am on my second Tacoma.
I will probably buy my third next year. The only other truck I am considering is the Honda Ridgeline.
Also, the Tundra is built at a brand new non-union factory Toyota outside of San Antonio.
I have a 98 ranger that is still running great.
I know where we're going to mount the Technical when the SHTF.
Thank you for the link!
2013. We got a year of purgatory to go through.
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