When I see a Ford F-150, I shake my head and think, “loser”.
Most trucks, unless specifically single cab or long beds have not been able to carry a 4’x8’ sheet of plywood in a decade or longer. A single cab or long bed pick em up truck is as rare as hens teeth. Otherwise they’re just pavement princesses who dont haul anything heavier than a gallon of milk or their own sedentary ass. Its all about percieved machismo. And that shit sells trucks to fragile men 8 days a week.
Some of the most deranged drivers, imo, unless they are contractors and then maybe not but usually still. Any time I see these kinds of trucks in the city I usually prepare myself for the worst.
(Contractors are deranged, i watched a coked out contractor have to be restrained from assaulting someone because of a parking spot dispute at 7am)
Being able to haul 4x8 sheet goods is the measure of a truck for me. And most of them just can’t. You know what can? A mid 2010s Honda Odyssey minivan. Fold the back seats down, pull the center row, and load it up. Seats 7 OR hauls drywall? Winner winner, chicken dinner. Not man enough, though, I guess
They actually can’t give birth naturally anymore, every F-150 born today is the result of misuse of jaws of life
because of woke they’re all conceived with IVF (In Vitro F-150)
In Vitro Fordilization
Luckily they are now all male
Well, it’s not like I’d put anything back there and risk scratching my bed liner! So why not use that space for passengers I’ll never transport? And this way I can just put everything I need to transport in the cab with me!I want to feel like I’m at home alone on my layzboy with the empty couch behind me
I guess it’s just a matter of time before they start selling a no-bed “truck”.
Isn’t that pretty much just an SUV?
Technically speaking I think it would be a SUT or “sports utility no-bed truck” if you want to get fancy.
Slimy right-wing guys could say “My F-1SUT don’t got a bed but it’s got a bed - if you know what I’m sayin’.”
Let’s not kid ourselves they would sell bedless F150s like fresh croissants to all the mouth breathers.
And I don’t mean the Expedition I mean the same but called bedless F150 or F150 Big Cabin Crew.
I’d love to see the overall height and length of the car over the same years.
The site scales the images so it’s not as visually different as it would be otherwise
How the fuck do you even see anything? Forget being hit by someone else. I’d be more worried about not seeing a downed powerline or a deer.
Or children
See, this argument assumes you care about the lives of deer and children
I actually think this is true. It often feels like USians treat the problem of pedestrian, especially child, deaths like those parents of the kid that died from measles.
Not sure I agree. The 1976 regular cab you linked is 16 foot 5 inches.
The modern regular cab you linked is 17 foot, 5 inches.
But that’s not what the original image is checking. If we also check the current SuperCrew+ShortBed, that one is 19 foot, 4 inches.
So yeah, trucks are 3 feet longer and yet have less cargo room in the bed.
(And yes, TY for finding the links!)
Thanks a lot for the research that I should have done!
This brought back a core memory of going on fishing trips in a pickup like the middle one as a kid with my dad and brother (this was before I went vegan, and even then, it was mostly an excuse to relax on a boat for me). The back had these side-facing fold-out seats, and I’d sit in one of those, listening to Metallica or Black Sabbath on a CD player while I watched the woods roll by.
My mom had a black Toyota and the “jump seats” were super cramped even for twelve year old me, still I remember playing gameboy in one, with one of those flashlight/magnifying glass attachments.
Me too! I remember taking turns on playing pokemon yellow with my buddy, facing each other for 4 hours on a road trip
I hated the jump seats. I always had to sit on them because my younger brother had “longer legs” and so “needed” the front seat. Never mind that he’d push the seat all the way back so I had no shoulder or hip room. At least I hadn’t yet developed motion sickness.
For me it was the second from the left and either riding in the bed or standing between my dad and brother on the bench seat
Brings me back to riding around with my grandpa in his early 70’s model; sometimes he would have to pick me up on the way home from hauling firewood. I don’t remember if that was an F-150 or an F-250, but it had the big front bench seat and the steering console-mounted 3-speed manual transmission.
If they would make a new 50-60% bed, barebones, 4 cylinder, manual transmission compact pickup I would buy it today. The only luxuries I expect are abs, power brakes, power steering, airbags, and an air conditioner. I’ve heard a lot of nonsense about cafe standards and cost/profit per unit but I still cant believe its not profitable to make this little truck.
They could never sell a K truck at as high a margin as s suburban commuter truck.
So every dollar they spend making x profit on k trucke is not a dollar they are spending time make X+ dollars. As such the line risks not going up as much. Avoiding that risk is worth more than money to a business
Bring back the old Chevy S-10’s and Ford Rangers from the 90’s/early 2000’s! They handled like shit in the snow even with a bed full of sandbags but they were fun as hell to drive.
I’ve heard a lot of nonsense about cafe standards and cost/profit per unit but I still cant believe its not profitable to make this little truck.
It most likely isn’t legal due to safety standards as they relate to inhabitants of cars. Minimum windows heights, minimum crumple zones, a shitload of airbags every which direction, at this point probably a whole lot of sensors you wouldn’t really need for that kind of car, list goes on.
I hate this so much. My job recently retired two 2012 chevy colorado’s. They had four doors, small frame, but plenty of bed space. The best we could do for a replacement is a ford maverick. the maverick has more room in the cab and lots of useful new features but the bed is absolutely pitiful. Just to fit all the things we need for work we have to use this little gate that folds out and adds the tailgate to the bed space. It works sure but it feels pretty unsafe, the backup camera becomes useless and there’s just a could fence posts and a coupe bars between anything slipping out of the bed on the highway.
similar bed size as this cute little guy
This may be a small breed, but it’s actually extremely healthy, hard-working, and long-lived.
The change from '97 onwards I believe is because the F150 and Expedition use the same chassis.
No one want to work anymore
cute kitty
Ugly cars from an ugly company
This is what they took from you.
I rode in a coworker’s new Tundra, the full size 4 door big as fuck one. They’re awful to share the road with and I don’t like them but it’s a really pleasant ride. Being tall gives you good visibility, they have huge powerful engines, and modern technology makes them feel tame and convenient (cameras, sensors etc). You can fit a load of people in the front and a load of their crap in the back. Unfortunately a truck in suburban America works great as a default vehicle. It’s a damn shame this is what they’ve become instead of trimmed down and efficient utilitarian vehicles. I guess that would be the Maverick, which is pretty great new trucklet
