[Paladin2]

"..they’ve went with a solid front axle.."

Solid axles front and rear are manly. It's a TRUCK. It should ride like one.

Buy a Porsche for the summer on road.

[Errant]

LOL, not really... That little F150's ride feels like you're sitting on your couch at home. The solid front axle and only a few inches of travel ruined the F250 4x4 for me forever. Those CV joints have 200K miles on them. I rebuilt the frontend this summer and could find no reason to replace them, so I stuck 'em back in.

Around that period, the F150 was not only the most popular truck on the road, it was the most popular automobile period. It gets 21 mpg. That's not bad for a 4x4 that can do 90 mph all day long or drag another truck out of a ditch with four flat tires (in low range and 1st gear of course).