Totally disagree. My experience with everyone who gets a pickup is that once you go pickup, you never go without one.
IMHO
Sold my Tacoma in 2019 and bought a jeep.....I love my jeep but as a home owner boy do I miss my truck bed.
I underestimated the need for it.
Kinda stuck at the moment because I don’t wanna give my left nad for a truck right now.
“Totally disagree. My experience with everyone who gets a pickup is that once you go pickup, you never go without one.”
That was my experience. Went without a truck for a whole 2 years. No matter how I tried to rationalize not having one, it never made any sense.
Yes, exactly. Where does this person get off thinking it’s his place to say what other people “need”?
Hard to pull 8000 lbs without a truck or haul wood or a million things.
Agree.My first pick up was a Ford 1988 F 150, second 2003 F 150 and current is 2013 F 150 STX. Would never drive anything else _____
>My experience with everyone who gets a pickup is that once you go pickup, you never go without one.
Yep, the only other vehicle I liked as much as my Ram 2500 HD was my Porsche 928s4. And I can go without a Porsche in Arizona, I can imagine all the parts that would fall off if I drove the roads around here, or how quickly all the filters would get clogged up. Reminds me I need to changeout the fuel filter in the diesel again, every time I change it out it oozes something that reminds me of Permian Basin drilling mud...
I can drive and afford whatever I want. Still driving my 2008 Frontier 4WD, long bed crew cab. Sturdy, dependable, decent power, 21-23mpg. 5 passenger, plus a 6 foot bed, fits in garage. Somebody tell the writer locking bed covers and shells can be used for bed storage. I don’t care what gas costs with a truck this cheap to own and maintain.
Wife has Honda SUV, gets 23-28mpg, we’re set.
Yes. SUV’s have become luxury cars. Family taxis and while they can carry cargo, you want that cargo to be ‘soft’ cargo, not lumber, cinder blocks or bags of concrete. But middle-income families that are do-it-yourselfers and frequent Lowes on the weekends have a frequent need to haul materials. Do you want to
A) overload a small commuter car?
B) tear up your nice SUV that your wife primarily drives to shop or pick up the kids, thereby destroying it’s resale value? or
C) use a pickup for a pickup job? Problem: Have you looked at the prices used, high-mileage pickups are bringing?
In my neighborhood most families have a daily commuter (which can be a very nice sedan, or pretty basic), a loaded SUV or CUV, and an older pickup for weekend jobs (that pretty much sits all week long, but is also available for snowy weather when the sedan is helpless).
I have owned four pickups, three Nissans and a Ford Ranger and my family put all of them to use. I traded a 2015 Nissan Frontier in 2019 because it was leaking in a weld and Nissan wouldn’t repair it and it had an electrical issue for a Ford Flex. The Flex was big, road great, tons of room and decent mileage, but we soon found we were borrowing friends and family pickups to move things constantly. And we live on a ridge top and the Flex was AWD but we just didn’t have confidence it would get us home in a snow storm so I traded the Flex for a 2019 Nissan Frontier and have used it continuously.
As for the Maverick, if you are in a suburb or urban area it’s probably going to fit the bill, but if you want a truck for rural area and off road I would consider other options.
I’m one of them, especially a truck with 4 door cab. You get a car and a truck.
Does this truck really get 40mpg?
I just turned over my company owned F150 for a new one.
The driver gets first dibs to buy the vehicle at a great price.
I’m waiting for the title to arrive so I can flip it and make a few thousand dollars.
A large part of me wants to keep it.