That’s not a ‘basic truck’.
Power windows, AT and BT?...............
I had a Ford F-100 in the 80’s that didn’t even have AC!
3 on the tree, plastic bench seat and hand cranked windows!
You can’t buy a truck like that any more!..............
Why the Hell would you want to??
A three speed manual? That was a worthless transmission made in the days of mandatory 55mph speed limits, connected to worthless 120hp V-8 engines.
Are you just afraid of getting old and think if they would just being back lousy truck designs you’d find the fountain of youth??
Because nobody wants to buy a truck like that. Even in the 80s, column shift manual was an endangered species because it sucked and nobody wanted to buy it. :P
Power windows are now cheaper and lighter than manual. Automatic trans is demanded by the market and CAFE.
Bluetooth is not standard in a fleet truck but it may soon be legally mandated by most states so it’s not like the makers will get a choice.
“I had a Ford F-100 in the 80’s that didn’t even have AC!”
So what? They can put in better features cheaper than they can put in rollup windows. Costs to cover warrantee items of breakables like rollup windows is expensive.
You didn’t get a warrantee yesterday like you do today. NO ONE gave out 6 years 100,000 drive train warrantees like today.
I wouldn’t want a truck like that anymore! They were crap!
Why would you want to?
I would think that it would cost MORE to have a car without those features, because you’d have to have a separate line..