They’re just a Chevelle with a pickup rear-end. Dome of them are appealing.
Posted on 05/31/2024 6:31:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yes, we mean something other than the Tesla Cybertruck.
You can’t really go wrong with a pickup truck. They’re like the Swiss Army Knives of the automotive world. Wanna haul or pull some crap? There’s a bed and you can tow. Wanna carry people? There’s a number of cab configurations to suit your needs. Want one with luxury features that rival a BMW 7 Series or Genesis G90? You can drop six figures for a truck that’ll coddle you.
This isn’t to say that they’re all good. Take the Hyundai Santa Cruz, for example. It was first shown as a concept at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, and it took nearly a decade before the Santa Cruz went into production. The original concept was a cool-looking, Millennial-targeted extended cab crossover truck with a 190-horsepower turbodiesel engine that could get 30 mpg. What we got was a Tucson with a bed.
Don’t get me wrong, the Santa Cruz is a great looking little pickup, it’s just that the execution isn’t good. The bed has less usable space than the aforementioned Tucson does with its rear seats up, and carrying a bike means either removing one of the tires of the bike or having it hang over the tailgate. Its fuel economy isn’t as great as it could be, either. With the base engine the Santa Cruz gets 21 mpg city, 27 mpg highway and 23 mpg combined; you lose one mpg in the city and combined when you spring for the 281-hp turbocharged engine and all-wheel drive.
The Santa Cruz is less a pickup and more of a lifestyle vehicle masquerading as a pickup. In my opinion, that sadly might make it the worst pickup truck on the market right now and possible one of the worst ever made.
Now we ask you, Jalopnik reader. Aside from the obvious choice of the Tesla Cybertruck, what do you think is the worst pickup ever made? If there’s slim pickings out of the current offerings, you can go for something that’s not on sale anymore. Whatever it is, let us know in the comments.
Lincoln made something similar ...
One of those passed me on the highway a couple days ago. It was the first one I’d seen in years. It looked like it had been lowered a bit.
I had a 1973 boattail riviera. I loved it. They are very difficult to find now.
I looked. No. Not any more new single cab trucks.
Like regular sedans and station wagons before that.... They are dinosaurs.
My mother had a Buick back then and put the car into the Houston dealership for repair. It was stolen from the lot. When I came back from a trip to visit relatives, she was driving one of those Rivieras as a loaner. I was shocked when she picked me up at the bus station in that weird car.
i can’t believe it took 60 posts to get to the Rivian ...
they’re quite a few around here, but i’ve only seen one with a load in its tiny bed: it was carrying a dirt bike, but the tailgate had to be lowered so the rear tire had some place to sit ...
funny thing though, is that you never see anything on the road but brand new Rivians painted with the latest year’s colors ... you never see any previous year’s models though as it appears that they don’t last very long ...
They’re just a Chevelle with a pickup rear-end. Dome of them are appealing.
Worst pickup truck ever made? Probably a 1959 Barkas, made in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany.
Doesn’t/shouldn’t “stainless” imply it doesn’t rust? Otherwise it’s just “steel”?
The Santa Fe is a SUV that has been attacked by a can opener.
Pickups are like pizza. There is no such thing as a bad one.
The LUV was a respectable little pickup truck.
This VW is pretty bad. More like a Van with an open bed than a pickup truck.
These were very cool. I showed a great deal of style and pizzazz.
It’s a King Cab with a short bed that is attached to the King Cab.🤣
Actually they were a big hit and are now quite collectible, for some reason. 🤣
aggressively ugly, and those rims scream toy, not truck...
If only it was that simple.
You can start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel
https://cdn.standards.iteh.ai/samples/43159/02b35612087f41b88a85ed96d4ee79b9/ISO-15510-2010.pdf
In my 2004 F150 I had to get AAA to tow the truck home five trips in a row.
Worst truck ever made.
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