2019 Ford Ranger Taking Orders

[Buliwyf]

As if that really made a difference. I've been drifting corners all week long this week. Scaled in at 11,000#'s. And Saturday we're expecting a blizzard. My nearly empty personal truck gets drivin even harder. Like ticketed for "being airborne at an intersection" hard.

In Ohio we dump a trillion tons of salt on the road every time it snows. That's so the Prius driving flakes can still get around. (wonder what all that salt does to the environment?) It's really hard an trucks. Detroit has potholes 2 feet deep. Some streets in East Cleveland are rougher than the Baja 1000.

 

[Todd780]

Like ticketed for "being airborne at an intersection" hard.
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Haha!

Reminds me of when I was young. I found a dirt road with a set of train tracks on it that were elevated enough so I could get airborne...

Blew the pass side shocks out of my old '80 Fleetwood doing that...

 

[jrgraveyard]

You must live in an alternative reality. All I mostly see are trucks running around empty majority of the time.

Ok clutch. I'm not arguing with what you see.

 

[Clutch]

Ok clutch. I'm not arguing with what you see.

You can do the experiment yourself in your area. Go out and count empty vs full for a day, a week, a month...whatever, and get back to us.

 

[Clutch]

As if that really made a difference. I've been drifting corners all week long this week. Scaled in at 11,000#'s. And Saturday we're expecting a blizzard. My nearly empty personal truck gets drivin even harder. Like ticketed for "being airborne at an intersection" hard.

In Ohio we dump a trillion tons of salt on the road every time it snows. That's so the Prius driving flakes can still get around. (wonder what all that salt does to the environment?) It's really hard an trucks. Detroit has potholes 2 feet deep. Some streets in East Cleveland are rougher than the Baja 1000.

Salt is hard on everything...doesn't mean trucks are actually going to get used like "trucks" by the average consumer. We live in the day and age of luxury interiors in a pickup, which sells like hot cakes. What is more important, toughness or like being caressed with a warm yogurt? And thinking the latter for how many ********** if a truck doesn't have heated seats or steering wheel. Bunch of wussies buying trucks these days.

I know you're being sarcastic, but...my sister lives by Cleveland, and I have been to Baja multiple times....streets are indeed crap back there, they are no where near as what is in Mexico.


Sure you'll get a few hoonigans like yourself, I was drifting mine just yesterday and like to jump cattle guards too, but for the most part...pencil pushers and software engineers are buying trucks these days, they don't get pushed very hard. They buy them to look tough.

 

[shellb]

I'm struggling to find photos of the rear seats in the super crew. I'm curious how they fold up and if there's a way that I could put a dog kennel or platform in one. Right now the Ridgeline is the only midsize I can find with a capable rear seat.

While we are on this specific subject - does the super crew only seat 4?

 

[DaveInDenver]

You must live in an alternative reality. All I mostly see are trucks running around empty majority of the time.

All vehicles are under utilized. Why are there 4 seats in a car if 95% of the time it's one person commuting? Why do you have shelter on your truck when you have a perfectly fine house for shelter?

Because a truck isn't in a work fleet with it's bed full 100% of the time doesn't mean it's never used. Whether or not Aussies or Americans are harder on their truck is pure opinion but no more so than trying to broadly generalize and dictate what an individual decides meets his or her needs vs wants.

 

[Wallygator]

As if that really made a difference. I've been drifting corners all week long this week. Scaled in at 11,000#'s. And Saturday we're expecting a blizzard. My nearly empty personal truck gets drivin even harder. Like ticketed for "being airborne at an intersection" hard.

In Ohio we dump a trillion tons of salt on the road every time it snows. That's so the Prius driving flakes can still get around. (wonder what all that salt does to the environment?) It's really hard an trucks. Detroit has potholes 2 feet deep. Some streets in East Cleveland are rougher than the Baja 1000.

Ain't that the truth....Detroit roads are worse than Baghdad's were at the height of the war.

 

[Wallygator]

Salt is hard on everything...doesn't mean trucks are actually going to get used like "trucks" by the average consumer. We live in the day and age of luxury interiors in a pickup, which sells like hot cakes. What is more important, toughness or like being caressed with a warm yogurt? And thinking the latter for how many ********** if a truck doesn't have heated seats or steering wheel. Bunch of ************** buying trucks these days.

I know you're being sarcastic, but...my sister lives by Cleveland, and I have been to Baja multiple times....streets are indeed crap back there, they are no where near as what is in Mexico.


Sure you'll get a few hoonigans like yourself, I was drifting mine just yesterday and like to jump cattle guards too, but for the most part...pencil pushers and software engineers are buying trucks these days, they don't get pushed very hard. They buy them to look tough.

I agree about who is buying these days. I mean look at the interiors now. Freaking back massagers available in the Super Duty. Huh??? I want wall to wall vinyl!

 

[DaveInDenver]

I agree about who is buying these days. I mean look at the interiors now. Freaking back massagers available in the Super Duty. Huh??? I want wall to wall vinyl!

LOL. I must be getting old or the world is wearing me down. I replaced the stock AM/FM/CD stereo in my truck a couple of months ago with one that mainly didn't skip but also talks iPod, has a USB interface (man, I love having 64 GB of music) and can link using Bluetooth. I paired my phone and did a hand's free call. I feel compromised, I didn't hate the experience and caught myself thinking what the TacomaWorld knuckleheads mean when they talk about the Tech Package on a new Tacoma.

 

[tacollie]

Hahaha. Funny story. My little brother bought a king ranch for the back massagers. He figured if he's going to break his back all day laying pipe he should buy a truck that massages his back. I give him a lot of crap for it. He also uses his truck harder than most. I don't use my truck for truck stuff. That's why I buy Toyota! It's also why I lurk in the Ranger and Colorado threads.

 

[73datsun]

While we are on this specific subject - does the super crew only seat 4?

Nope, it's a bench rear seat (three belts and headrests). Two up front.

 

[ultraclyde]

Why does a tough, durable truck have to be uncomfortable? Or, I guess, more accurately, what's wrong with having a tough, durable truck that also has heated seats? I agree with @tacollie 's little brother. A truck that makes me comfortable enables me to do more work or have more fun when I get wherever I'm going.

 

[Clutch]

All vehicles are under utilized. Why are there 4 seats in a car if 95% of the time it's one person commuting? Why do you have shelter on your truck when you have a perfectly fine house for shelter?

Because a truck isn't in a work fleet with it's bed full 100% of the time doesn't mean it's never used. Whether or not Aussies or Americans are harder on their truck is pure opinion but no more so than trying to broadly generalize and dictate what an individual decides meets his or her needs vs wants.

So does mine, it never is pushed to its' full potential for the most part. Maybe when I pickup a construction side job here and there, it is loaded to the hilt. But to claim we Americans are hard on trucks is false. Maybe lack of maintenance types of abuse, but majority of US owners really aren't loading the crap out of them for the most part.

The basic pickup truck has all about disappeared...and why crew cabs 5' beds with luxury interiors and va-jay-jay warmers are now dominating the market. The pickup has become the family truckster, the daily commuter, golf club hauler, etc...

 

[Clutch]

Hahaha. Funny story. My little brother bought a king ranch for the back massagers. He figured if he's going to break his back all day laying pipe he should buy a truck that massages his back. I give him a lot of crap for it. He also uses his truck harder than most. I don't use my truck for truck stuff. That's why I buy Toyota! It's also why I lurk in the Ranger and Colorado threads.

Back massagers!? Only back massager a truck should have is running down washboard roads getting to the drill site!