There is nothing like a truck, and there is nothing like a Ford. Although I had to leave my F150 in the USA, I brought a full kit E350XL overseas with me.
The roads here are terrible but the super strong frame on the E350 along with the clearance and the V8 get me through just about anything.
And everybody wants my E350 when I leave.
On another note, Toyota’s Hilux is the vehicle of choice for terrorists, muj and Taliban from all over.
We call them “tacticals” and there is nothing like watching a Toyota Hilux tool across the plain with a .50 cal Dishka mounted in the bed trying to fire and hit targets.
Not at six bucks a gallon, no thank you.
Also older trucks in good shape,
Sold a 1968 Dodge pick up to a guy that was exporting trucks to Switzerland.
yuck I hate pickups and I hate being behind pickups and I hate the way the drivers tool along at 50 and I hate how much gas they use
Not many (any?0 mid sized pickups in the US market, though. You can’t get a Hilux, an Amarok, a Ranger here.
I just looked, Ford will have a 2019 Ranger.
And the same thing that killed off the station wagon (another handy vehicle) government regulations.
Yesterday I bought a load of books and really wished I had brought the pick-em up before it was over. Driving one of those "smart" roller skates would have required at least four trips.
Yea - just wait until start driving around with gun rack and confederate flag .......
Interesting.
I don’t remember seeing any pickups when I lived in Europe in the 1970s and early 1980s.
The rugged little Land Rovers (NOT the luxury versions that were sold in the US) were everywhere, as well as Peugeot or Citroen utility vehicles.
Wesley Pegden would approve.
European cars were always smaller due to taxes, high fuel costs and environmental regulations. I think one of the reasons small car sales in the US and Europe have tanked is due to the ongoing press for better and better fuel economy. This makes the small cars intolerably small. If you want to haul a few pieces of wood for a home project, how do you get them home? Daily, I see $90 worth of lumber poking out through a window or strapped, or even held on the roof, by passenger and driver. If you want to take home a big screen TV, how do you do it? I was standing outside of Best Buy next to an employee manning a hauler with a washer on it. Up drives a subcompact; WAY too small for the load. He rolled his eyes and I asked, “How often does this happen?” He said, “More often than you’d imagine.”
The astonishing thing is, why did it take Europeans this long to discover pickups?
We’re driving a 2011 GMC 4WD extended cab Sierra. It replaced a nearly identical 2001.
Zero problems with either truck.
Europeans adopting white supremacist pickups! - mainstream media
YEE HAW
With Europe going fully electric vehicles in the next 20-40 years, those pickup trucks are going to either be banned, or recharged every 10 miles, or every five miles when pulling a boat or anything else.