You cannot find a ‘basic’ truck any more.
No power windows, manual transmission, no electronic gadgets everywhere and no ‘leather’.....................
You can still get a fleet model without electronic gadgets and with a vinyl or fabric interior, but electric windows not only weigh less, they are cheaper to produce and nobody was buying manual windows anyway. Same goes for the manual transmission - automatics get better fuel economy now (remember, CAFE regulations!) and nobody wanted manuals enough to buy significant numbers of full size trucks with them.
“You cannot find a ‘basic’ truck any more. No power windows, manual transmission, no electronic gadgets everywhere and no ‘leather’.....................”
Then why are they on the road?? My BIL has one. Paid $27k for it but got an auto trans, power windows, and Bluetooth.
Seems ignorant people always make the loudest and dumbest comments.