People arguing about ‘truck frames’ forget that all cars used to be body-on-frame too. When technology advances, we don’t stop calling cars ‘cars.’
Why should trucks be any different?
People arguing about ‘truck frames’ forget that all cars used to be body-on-frame too. When technology advances, we don’t stop calling cars ‘cars.’
Why should trucks be any different?
I haul more in my Maverick than half the dudes with lifted F-250s ever do.
It’s a compact pickup.
My uncle, who was a trucker, always said: ‘A real truck has 18 wheels.’
By your friend’s logic, it’s a truck built on a car frame.
Ford made unibody F-100s in the 1960s. Nobody argued those weren’t trucks.
If the Maverick is a ‘UTE’ because of its construction, then what’s the Ridgeline? A ‘mid-size sedan with a tailgate’?
Illinois requires the Maverick to use B-truck plates, which are for vehicles under 8,000 lbs. Sounds like a truck to me.
In the ‘90s, small trucks were the size of the Maverick. The only difference is today’s trucks have ballooned in size.
Ford just made the right-sized truck again.
Tell your friend he’s compensating for something.
Who cares? It hauls, it tows, it works.
It’s a truck. End of story.