Posted on 08/19/2025 4:23:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Actually it was some pretty sharp marketing people at Ford that did that.
The most comfortable and quietist riding pick up truck ever made?
The Ford F150 Lightning.
The most fun to drive yet still comfortable and quiet truck ever made? The Tesla Cybertruck.
As Rush used to say “don’t doubt me!”.
I just recently got turned on to Dave Dudley (thanks Tesla). He has a really distinctive voice like Waylon and Johnny. Compare them to the hog calling quality and sameness of hip hop artists today.
They are sedans with open trunks. Any "truck" without an 8 foot box isn't a truck, it's a toy. The exception are those with upfit specialized rigs for certain jobs but those just get dropped on 250/2500 chassis.
The issue I see is that these "grocery getters" just clog of the roads, get relatively poor gas mileage, don't handle all that well and are usually driven by morons thumping their chest about "Muh truck". Not to mention the blocky front end that literally, yes literally kills people. Look that one up. IF they sloped them back, it'd probably save hundreds of lives annually but you know "muh truck".
Blogger “Fat Electrician “ explains conventional cab pick-ups are no longer available because of bad international trade agreements over …chickens.
Especially when the ACM (Stellantis) and CMA (GM) have tied to rivals.
Cool deal. They are pretty solid vehicles. I have a Transit 350, which has similar internal cargo space with the seats out, but it is only a V6.
How does the Transit drive? I really hated it when Ford discontinued the E series of vans.
I wish they had continued the E series too. I think 2014 was last model year in US.
The Transit drives very well overall. Good handling, steering, pickup etc. Mine is a 2015. We bought it from Carmax in 2016 with 30k miles. Now has about 120k miles and zero mechanical issues thus far. Has taken a lot of abuse from wife and 6 kids and still looks surprisingly good inside.
What I dislike:
-Ford eliminated window openings behind the drivers cabin. No rear windows open.
-The center column on the rear doors blocks more window space than necessary, making it more difficult to see centered objects in the windshield rear view mirror.
-The factory carpet is very short and difficult to vacuum.
-The Rear bench seating and spacing. Lacks the same legroom as the Econolines because the seats don’t have quite the same slant that allows rearend to dip and knees to rise. Overall, it’s fine for anyone ~5’10” or less. Taller than that it becomes uncomfortable on long trips. The benches also have different leg patterns corresponding to the floor brackets, so not all benches are interchangeable at all rows. We removed the 4 seats in rear row (2 narrower benches of 2 seats each) and replaced with the 63” 3 seat bench.
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