If you've got a heavy license it's a doddle

 

 

People wanted the big pickups as there was a tax screw, which meant you paid bugger all tax but got something like a King Cab and paid as if it was a small commercial vehicle. The weight precluded that from happening, so my ex boss was a little 'creative' apparently. Of course i was not aware of him doing this at the time as that was illegal. 

People wanted the big pickups as there was a tax screw, which meant you paid bugger all tax but got something like a King Cab and paid as if it was a small commercial vehicle. The weight precluded that from happening, so my ex boss was a little 'creative' apparently. Of course i was not aware of him doing this at the time as that was illegal.

I had noticed a distinct lack of them on UK roads last time there )))

here are a few snaps of some pickups we had. We did have lots of smaller ones too

 

This was a silly Big Doge with a 6.3 straight 6 Cummins diesel. possibly the roughest engine I've ever heard or felt that was about to explode

 

 

 

 

A Lincoln and a Cadilac

 

 

 

Cadilac Escalade EXT, which stood for extra hideoussssss. I think you could get straight out from the back of the cab into the bed! Weird 

 

 

 

The Legendary 380bhp F150 Lightning :)

 

 

 

The Harley version of the Lightning. It was much more palatial, obviously had a bigger can and sadly only had 340bhp. it did sound nicer than the Lightning, which the boss reckoned was because of the rear side exhausts

 

 

Actually this bit is quite nice. It's the fitted out rear deck of a Lincoln Blackwood. The only one in the country at the time and probably still is. 

 

 

Drivers office

http://images.hgmsites.net/hug/2018-ford-f-150_100587694_h.jpg

 

 

I tried to find a pic of an F150  interior circa 2002 and failed. But here is one of a new Dodge pick-up interior from 14 years ago

 

They certainly aren't into subtlety

More mine's bigger than yours brutality

Still you can press the buttons without looking. It's a bit like petting your dog, you know the head is somewhere nearby and you instinctively pat it, it's the same with the dashboard buttons. Even if you had hands like Chris Pine in the first of the reboot Star Trek films where McCoy is continually injecting Kirk to get him on board the ship (if you haven't seen the film....sorry), you could accurately operate the interior features in a USA Pick-up, or any American car of that era tbh. 

North Dakota snow with gloves on makes sense

Horses for courses.......preferably big wide courses

Too many Burgers I reckon 

Too many Burgers I reckon

But entirely in keeping with the mass concept........?

I can't help but like that F150. I think where things are unabashedly American it works, it's when they try to be European it all goes wrong.

 

Near my a local garage uses a Dodge Ram dually as their recovery vehicle.

 

I've never driven a yank pickup but I'd love a go.

 

That Caddy EXT is something special.

Didnt get the chance to drive it, but i was a passenger in a 2005 RAM 1500 Hemi... huge and heavy with masses of room. Easily get 4people acros i that thing

The F150 gets bigger with every generation. I've had a 2016 SuperCrew on lease for 2 months and it's too big for city work in the USA let alone the UK. It makes Range roveers and Q7s look like little hatch backs. The 4x4 F150 gains 3 or 4 inches in ride height too. In traffic you can see right over the top of those itty bitty euro 4x4s :-)

The cab space on the SuperCrew is huge too. Seats 6 with limo legroom in the back. And the twin turbos on the 3.5 ecoboost make it surprisingly quick.

Edited 11 January, 20179 yr by camelspyyder

i wasn't sure if the cup holders were for your coffee or were some sort of empty Jacuzzi 

i wasn't sure if the cup holders were for your coffee or were some sort of empty Jacuzzi

Given the serving sizes of awful coffee over there, it could be either!

The F150 gets bigger with every generation. I've had a 2016 SuperCrew on lease for 2 months and it's too big for city work in the USA let alone the UK. It makes Range roveers and Q7s look like little hatch backs. The 4x4 F150 gains 3 or 4 inches in ride height too. In traffic you can see right over the top of those itty bitty euro 4x4s :-)

I've seen brochure pictures of a woman standing beside one with the door handles at her eyeline and unable to see inside without standing up on the running board.

Thread and Pics of mine here:

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/399160-201516-f-150/

 

Its a mid-range XLT Supercrew - loaded with goodies but no flashy trim that you wouldn't want to get muddy...

I think the F150 looks great, sure it's not made for the UK, i doubt we'll really see these kind of vehicles here, but I think the next generation will be interesting when the market forces them to go hybrid or even all electric, if you position the batteries over the rear axle there is the potential to improve handling characteristics over the traditional 'gas' models.

I loved the fact the F150 Lightning had a light rear end, 450lb/ft of torx, a live axle and leaf springs. What could possibly go wrong :D

They have their place where they can do the job or just for posing purposes, and if you want one you just need to splash the cash really.

Obviously there are those that might suit the UK and be more economic, but then they are rather uninspiring.

 

Which would you rather drive?

Edited 12 January, 20179 yr by Offski

I think the F150 looks great, sure it's not made for the UK, i doubt we'll really see these kind of vehicles here, but I think the next generation will be interesting when the market forces them to go hybrid or even all electric, if you position the batteries over the rear axle there is the potential to improve handling characteristics over the traditional 'gas' models.

No load, maybe

Full, not so much perhaps

Continuing the ridiculous theme:

http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1108953_first-drive-2017-gmc-sierra-2500hd-duramax#src=10065

Our 'tradies' are snobs; a big waiting list it seems

http://canada.autonews.com/article/20170224/CANADA01/302249927/mercedes-wont-bring-new-x-class-pickup-to-canada-but-considers-u-s?cciid=email-autonews-weekly

 

^^^^^ but can you park it ?.