Posted on 01/16/2018 2:37:10 PM PST by Red Badger
If the passenger compartment is longer than the bed it isn’t a pickup truck but a car without a deck lid IMHO.
Good Lord; could almost pass for a full size truck. Does anyone make a small truck anymore or are we just that fat. Don’t answer.
In defense of this century’s vehicles, I just bought a 2015 Corolla. It’s a fine product of Blue Springs, Mississippi ... and a huge improvement over its predecessors.
And yes, if after 19 years your truck hasn’t taken a few hits, you’re not using it right.
No 6 or 8 cylinder engines. I’ll pass till something akin to at least a 5.0 is installed.
You can spin little engines fast and pump air into them but there is no replacement for displacement. Trucks need torque.
I had a used 2004 Ranger XLT fitted with a small camper. V8, auto. Drove it all over the US. Put over 100K miles on it. Still hauling good when I traded it.
Pickups trucks are for what you need them for. In the 70s I did some drywall in new building construction. A beat up old Chevy with a big long bed suited me fine. In 2014 as a retired guy who likes to hunt and fish with my 3 large adult sons, a loaded Ram with crew cab and a 5 foot capped bed is what I need. Comfortable too. Tows my boat and can load it with more gear thanI need for a week hunting.
And the kids use it for hauling whatever they need to haul for their own houses.
If it’s like the big Ford pickups, it will have a body made out of beer can quality aluminum and plastic.
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Personally I’m holding out for the new International Scout.
WELCOME HOME FORD RANGER!!!!!!
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Yes, as I wrote before, I’d be quite happy with a brand new International pickup, screw the emissions nonsense. I live in a rural area and it shouldn’t matter; Maine doesn’t emission test outside of Cumberland County.
“Pickups trucks are for what you need them for.”
There is nothing wrong with that. It is just that they start looking like a 1974 Lincoln Town cars without a deck lid.
I hope you enjoy the fishing. It is good you share an interest. My sons got interested in computers and have no interest in woodworking or cars.
You must have the Chelsea Manning trannie.
“I have a 1993 Ford Ranger, 247,000 miles on it.”
I’ve got a 2002. People keep stopping by wanting to know if I want to sell it. I changed the tires two tears ago and the tire guy told me that the ones he took off were the original tires.
See, that’s what I’m afraid of happening. That and the thin aluminum.
Looks like I am just going to have to keep fixing up the old ones.
I DO NOT WANT a 4-door pick-up.
They’ve been making parking spaces smaller to discourage large too.
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