Haulin' All-rounder: The History of the Pickup Truck
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- A classic car connaisseur dives into the history of the versatile vehicular jack-of-all-trades: the pickup truck! What was the first pickup truck? What is the difference between fleetside, stepside, extended cab and crew cabs trucks? And what has the future in store for pickups? We also look at the many flavours of trucks, like the sports truck, lifestyle truck and the 'ute'. Find out in this automotive history episode!
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I do agree pickups have gotten silly large. I own a 1988 Dodge D150, which was a full size truck in its day. It looks compact next to a new Ram 1500 and they’re both half ton pickups
Looking at the dimensions, the 'mid size' trucks of today are closer to old, actual full size 1/2 tons in both size and in capability. 2024 Ford Ranger is 211" long, and 79" wide, with 5500-7500lb towing and up to 1800lbs payload. 1986 Ford F150 starts 192" long, 70" wide, 3500 lbs towing and 1500 lbs payload, with more towing capacity with higher trims. Of course you can get longer with extended cabs and long beds, at 230" long, but that has a lot more usable space than the Ranger.
The Ranger does get better mileage, but not by a lot; especially given the much more efficient fuel delivery systems and 10 speed transmissions suggest.
I have a 1988 dodge also with 8ft bed. I bought it new.
My 3/4 Ton C20, with the heavy duty package, looks similar in size to a modern Half Ton, until you park them beside one another. The new trucks are just out of control.
@@donniegardner1146me too. 88 power ram. I've had it 17 years, great truck.
@@Woody_Florida yeah mine is a work truck. Am radio, ruber floor, does have any automatic, and AC lol. 318 motor
As an Aussie I can confirm the letter shown asking Ford to build the Ute is historically accurate.
That's hilarious! I've always thought if someone who did not speak English could learn "fair dinkum, cunt" and saying "no, yeah" or "yeah, no" they could survive in Australia. I worked with an older gentleman who is an Aussie and he said bloody a bloody awful lot. I didn't know if that was just him, his generation, or being an Aussie 😂
@@matthewcochran3325the guys swear a lot. Trust me, I'm an Aussie guy.
I was about to mention this because I'm near to where that factory was and letter was written.
bloody love that letter
Must say, that sign-off was 👌
As another Aussie, I can’t believe I’ve never thought of it myself, tbh! 😂
In the USA, manufacturers did a great job of marketing compact pickup trucks to young men (like me at the time) in the 1990s. For about the same price, I could buy an ugly, tiny little, boring compact car OR I could buy a fun, good looking, haul-stuff-around pickup truck and go off road, take it camping, the works. As a 25 year old guy buying my first new vehicle, of course I was going for the truck! Unfortunately these days the smaller trucks (and their much smaller prices) have disappeared and we're left with gas guzzling behemoths that cost $80,0000. I had a lot of fun with that 4x4 Toyota SR5 I bought in the 90s!
Yeah but to be fair when I was shopping for a 4x4 small truck(used mind you) I soon discovered that price wise I would be spending just as much on a Nissan frontier or even more on a Tacoma than I would on a full size truck of comparable condition and mileage and the fuel efficiency difference is negligible, especially considering my commute. Bought a full size because it just didn't make sense not to.
Yea, I remember the cars I was looking at for my first vehicle. A last year Plymouth Sundance Duster, a first year Neon or a Dakota Sport with a 5 speed and a V8. Guess which one I bought!
Yep, my first vehicle was an '02 Ford Ranger. Great truck and for the price, it didn't get much better.
800k seems a bit excessive
80k is that the base model starting price now adays?
As an American who has owned many trucks I have to say, I am NOT offended. Also great music selection to start the video
Why would you be offended?
@@LeonWezi ever encounterd an american online? they get offended by you just existing
As an Australian, I am offended.
You've just had to deal with the wrong Americans. We're not all like that. The things you don't like about Americans are the same things I don't like about Americans.
I caught early in the video he used a track from Monopoly Tycoon =D
I am Canadian and trucks are everywhere here as well. My Dad bought his 1969 Chevrolet pickup when ot was six months old and drove it to work every day for the next 25 years. I bought it from him and am still using it almost 30 years now. The same age as me and I have never known life without it. Pickups are great!
In Brazil we also had “utes”, but usually derived from compact cars.
Some were worldwide products, like the Ford Courrier or the Peugeot trucks from the 90s, but VW had (and still has) a small pickup truck derived from our own home grown compact (Gol) called Saveiro.
And we absolutely love them; people even go drag racing with some modified Saveiros, it’s insane.
Today I learned that "ute" isn't just a word from the Australian vocabulary.
South Africa was into the small cars as pick-up trucks too. Often smaller than 2.0 litre engines. Zimbabwe has them too. I think they call them bongos. I'm in Australia near where they started the family car pick-up truck called the ute. They're great because almost all the stuff is interchangeable with the family car version and so there's never a shortage of parts. In fact the sedan I have is an very early model of FG (company car ordered without a test drive because they weren't in production yet) and my mechanic told me it has the ute driveshaft, whereas later models had a crappier 1 piece driveshaft that can only be bought as a whole for $1800. Whereas mine will disconnect into 2 and you can just change the bearings on it for under $100.
Fiat Fiorino? :)
Uma Saveiro 2018 é o meu carro de trabalho. Anda mais de 100KM por dia, 5 dias por semana, tem quase 300k KM (comprei com uns 120k), e o maior problema que já tive foi uma correia estourada (e outros problemas menores relacionados ao ar condicionado e bateria).
Não penso em comprar outro carro tão cedo.
@@valentinomanontroppo4675Fiorino, and Strada, Strada is very popular right now, it's four Doors and all, a frase pick-up or picape
Well done. I remember in the mid to late ‘60s (in the U.S.) many people bought pickups with nice options because they were cheaper than passenger cars and had more utility. Not anymore! Once the craze for them increased, they became the most expensive (and most profitable!).
Ya, trucks have taken on signifier of wealth in some circles while actual work vehicles tend to be vans.
Meanwhile, I'm hoping Citroen re-releases the 2CV.
They were bought for utility. Not vanity. It's really sickening and disturbing.
So true . P/U were 2/3 the price of a car. A car cost $10,000, the truck was $6,000. Now the manufacturer are ripping off the public. Back in the 1980's GM made a $10,000 profit on each Suburban .
@@henriyoung3895 they’re selling vanity, not utility. If that’s called getting “ripped off”, then I’m all for it. It’s ironic that the RAM is named after a sheep, lol..
Probably not the most profitable anymore, lots of trucks are just sitting on lots not selling, and lots of factories are laying off workers because they can't sell the trucks as fast as they are making them anymore, because they are well out of the price range of the average person that makes them.
Something that deserves a mention--At lest part of the reason US pickups (and SUVs) keep gettting bigger isn't all truck bros. It is also that the US government-mandated MPG is strict on relatively small trucks but lax on ginormous ones. This is based on footprint, so laws that were meant to increase overall MPG instead reduce it.
That's the reason that Ford made the newest Ranger pickups a mid size truck that's the same size as an older f150. My first vehicle was a 93 Ford ranger, it was tiny compared to the new ones.
Thanks for the retrospective! Being a truck owner for about the last 40+ years, this vid caught my interest. I find it sad that the Cyber-Truck represents the death of the utilitarian pick-up as we know it. I know change is inevitable, but I already miss the availability of a simple, spartan, 2-door pick-up with an 8' bed. Not only are newer trucks becoming more of an over-sized grocery getter; the addition of all kinds of electronics and creature comforts is turning these models into some VERY expensive (and less useful) transportation! Switching to battery powered models is only going to drive the price up to the stratosphere. Already, basic pick-ups are $40K (and higher) with some well optioned trucks nearing the $100K level. I can't begin to justify spending that kind of money on what is essentially a second vehicle for me. It also makes me wonder what business owners who depend on trucks as part of their everyday work are going to do?
Yea. A gigantic electric Pick-Up. Because what an electric car needs is even more weight. Sounds reasonable.
I miss when trucks were trucks, not yuppy mobiles.
It's also important to note that Ford's Model "TT" One-Ton Truck was designed more for commercial use, and, although it had the same engine, had a different running gear than the Model T. Many farmers had no need for such a big heavy piece of equipment, but the 5-Passenger Touring was enticing. The farmers soon realized they could cut the rear end off at the back doors, and install a bed to make a lightweight "pick-up" truck. It wasn't until 1925 that Ford made the "pick-up" an available body style for the standard production Model T
Now they got a "5 point tailgate" that you can open with your key fob. Probably great until it breaks.
I always appreciate your mentions of non-American and non-Western European cars, especially when you talk about my region, Latin America. There was a missed opportunity though here, as Sudamericana is so very niche at best and a punchline at worst. You could have mentioned the whole small pick-up segment, started by the VW Saveiro, which is a Gol-based, 1.0L alcohol engined or optional 1.6L gas 4-cylinder tiny little truck/personal car, born in the early 80's and still so popular I can think of at least four competitors... Haven't seen anything like them anywhere else.
4:09 Just to confuse things, the ute models of the Aussie Ford Falcon between 1998-2016 all had a separate cab and tray. You could also buy Holden Commodore utes with a separate aluminium tray and cab, but the regular Commodore ute had a bed that was seemlessly joined to the cab.
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I OWN A REAL TRUCK,,a 2020 ram 1500 regular cab,,manuel windows,manuel door locks,,no internet conmect,,my first car was a truck,,"real trucks only account for about five percent of the usa market,,most are now owned by idiots ,think of a monkey with a hand gun,,new trucks are piling up like cord wood here,,because of prices,,fords electric truck is a total bomb,,nobody wants it
Damn, did not know dodge was still selling a true base model ram. But yes pretty much almost all trucks are becoming pavement princesses and I won’t lie I rarely use the bed of my old 93 Chevy unless I need to and I drive my Toyota sedan most of the time anyways.
@@SombreroKnight I live Eugene Oregon,,could not find a regular cab in North comiefornia,,Washington,,or Oregon,,had to go to Boise Idaho,,it's the ram 1500 "classic",,V6 auto ac longbed,,people get frustrated when in it with me,,they can't find the window button,,and have forgotten about crank windows ,or have never seen or used crank windows,,came with wired tow package,,it was 31k out the door,,,young Latino men lust after it
You might want to check the spelling on the letter to Ford from an Australian, particularly the sign off. (3:17) 😂
While I was growing up in Brazil, my father had nothing but pickup trucks. Chevrolets and VWs which he used to carry stuff to and from the farm. I have always had a huge soft spot for them thanks to that. I refuse to die before owning a hot-rodded pickup. :^)
Sitting here, in mid December, on the east coast of Canada, after a storm, that has cut off power to many people, including our family. We're on our second day. We have an emergency generator, and as of 10 minutes ago, I have my furnace wired to run off of grid power, and/or emergency generator.
It was fridged here this morning, after a full night without our heat pumps, or furnace. But after a sleepless night, and much frustrations, finding water to cook, and clean with (we live in the country, so there is an artesian well up the road, that many people source their water, because of it's purity)...anyway.....needless to say, it's been a rough couple days.
I really appreciate this channel, so much, for the much needed break.
Thanks Ed! You're awesome!!!!
Our best to you and your family.
We were caught out once in the mid-90s by an electrical grid failure during a hot Central Califirnia summer. Our generator (fueled by our gasoline and LP) saw our household and our neighbors' through it.
Sweating is endurable; freezing is a whole different kettle of fish. We'll keep you and yours in our thoughts.
@mbryson2899 Thank you for sharing your experience. It isn't much of a new thing here. We go from one climate extreme to another throughout the year, which makes us fairly resistant to the weather. But rare instances like these storms, really show us where our priorities should be.
Food, water, and heat.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
And a massive thank you, for your well wishes.
We wish for you, a very Merry Christmas.
Cheers!
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My line of work is repossessed vehicle transport, I get the defaulted vehicles onto semis and transported to auction where the banks who hold the loans liquidate the defaulted vehicles.
Here in the central US, there is an absolute plague of stupid consumers who are incapable of basic math, and they’ll buy a crew cab monstrosity that has payments flirting with $1k a month, and will be a perpetual resource hog for its entire existence- and the cost is unsustainable for many, so I see a ton of these ridiculous wastes of resources and space every single day.
Frankly I’m sick of crew cab trucks, and there’s a stupid trend in this country where people think it’s a flex to waste as much resources as humanly possible by driving 3 and 4 ton abominations an hour each way to their office jobs.
As I keep saying, apparently gas isn’t expensive enough yet, cuz every day out here there’s millions of morons pissing it right up a wall, wasting it with every possible horrible choice and habit you can imagine.
I have a giant old Dodge army truck with a service bed, and its role in life is what a truck is made for- it’s a rolling garage that keeps my fleet on the road. It’s not a pleasure cruiser, a grocery getter, or any other nonsense- only time it moves is when there’s something that needs fixing.
I have a car for the rest, it gets 26 highway instead of 9, it’s very quiet, comfortable, smooth, and easy to drive- and it actually saves some resources for future generations.
The plague of wastefulness in the US is SUPER annoying to me.
I honestly like Pickups, but they are all too big for me living in Austria.
The one Pickup I honestly fell in love with was a 2019 Suzuki Jimny Pickup. I love the Jimny anyway, but Pickup-Jimny? This is just a dream!
Another banger, Ed. I am a truck owner in the US and have my own business. I use my truck to haul something almost everyday. Even if I didn't have my own business, I think I would still have a truck. I'm always buying furniture or tools or something off marketplace that I have to go pick up. I can't imagine not having a truck. However, I live in a rural part of the country. If I lived in San Francisco or London I could understand not having one. Also, my trucks are 20 years old and definitely not luxury vehicles.
Finally! Another awesome video Ed.
Here in Texas, you buy a pickup truck as a highway defensive measure and the cleanest part of the truck is the pickup bed floor.
Jeremy Clarkson once said that SUVs are like nuclear weapons, the moment somebody owns one then everybody else also needs them for self defense in the context of a collision. It certainly applies to pickups as well.
@@peekaboo1575 And then you have the Suburban, which is a truck-based SUV with the interior space of a minivan + a truck bed
Truth!
Why doesn't anyone sell a regular cab pick up in America any more?
No profit in a bare bones work truck. Single cab with 8 foot bed is dead.
Great review, but, electric trucks? Never happen! Only virtue signallers own electric vehicles, and they wouldn't be caught dead in a pickup.
Electric trucks can technically do truck things, but not well. At least so far. The f 150 lightning cuts it's range in half when you hook up a car hauler with a model T on it. If you dent a Rivian bed it will cost you 40 grand to fix. All of them use batteries that are not fully developed yet, and occasionally go up in flames. Sometimes in the factory (Rivian), or die all together a year out of the factory (Lightning). I can't wait to see what defects the cyber truck has to offer.
The current problem about electric trucks is the fact that towing HEAVILY affects their range
And to think in 1985, the Toyota Tacoma, was the dream car in Back to the Future.
Sports pickup.
Tacoma didn't even exist
@@chickenfishhybrid44we called it the Truck here
If you’re familiar with American TV you may have heard of Bob Vila. He started of on the TV series This Old House where they renovate old houses. He moved on to start his own show with a similar concept, but he also talked tools, home repair and espoused his ideas about what works and what doesn’t. He once said something to the effect of: “if a pickup truck bed can’t hold a full size sheet of plywood, it’s not really a pickup truck.” A full size sheet of plywood is 4 feet wide and 8 feet long! That’s not going to fit in most modern pickups! (Even the Cybertruck bed is only 4 feet by 6 feet.)
My question is, will they ever stop growing? Don't get me wrong, I'm a lifelong and current pickup owner, but I recently walked past a GM AT4, and at 6-feet tall, I'm not sure I'd be able to check the oil or reach over the bedside without a step-stool. To me, this is stepping away from the whole point of a truck: function and practicality.
(BTW, I recently downsized from an F150 to a Tacoma)
as someone who work on vehicles for a living, you just pointed out the one grievance I have with modern half ton trucks: they are getting so huge that even me being 5' 10" i have to use a step stool to reach the oil dipstick ESPECIALLY with GM's trucks!
@@digitalrailroaderhey, that's supposed to make you feel like a man, not immasculate you...
Ford F150 = Best Selling Vehicle in US for over 40 years !
People would drop the mini trucks to the ground EX the ford Ranger and the Chevy s10 and s10 blazer
I think you missed one note in truck development: Macho styling.
Before the mid-1990s, most trucks had a similar design idea to commercial vans. They were boxy and basic, with the biggest defining feature usually being the badge.
However, the folks at Dodge had a fun idea, and decided that for the second generation Dodge pickup truck, the Dodge Ram, they'd go back to the 50s for some inspiration, as was the craze at the time. They took inspiration from old semi trucks and pickups, and thus, the macho-style was born. Ford and GM were forced to play catchup, leading to the early-00s designs of the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado and Avalanche, with Ford taking their New Edge design language and giving it a bigger grille for that macho snout, and Chevrolet opting to take their 90s design and make it angrier. Seriously, look at the first gen Chevy Avalanche! It's angry!
You can definitely see the shift in truck design after the second generation Dodge Ram, and I'm actually a little sad you didn't mention it here. Now, every truck has to have a massive grille with the headlights shoved to the sides, and we're worse off for it.
the '94 dodge was indeed a bit of art..
6:25 so… the 90s move from true offroaders to SUVs wasn’t anything new? ‘Here you have a thing that does the job’. ‘Yeah, but comfort and multi functional. We’re Disney princesses’. ‘Okay, here you have what you asked for. It won’t do the job and cost you a lot more’. ‘Great, thanks!’
And the thing that did the job is no longer available. Nice
They don’t make true mini pickups anymore. The 2011 and prior was my favorite Truck- the Ford Ranger. The new Ranger is a full size Truck in the 50’s or 60’s
Why Europe doesn't fancy pickups? Easy: europeans on average are more sensible buyers.
Smaller streets, fewer offroad areas. Those who need more space buy minivans. Those who need less space and more comfort buy estate cars. Large car does not equal expensive car in most cases, but when it does it's about comfortable CUVs instead since no poser would actually carry anything in a pickup bed - and everyone understands it.
The only place with a lot of dirt roads and offroad is Russia, but over there everything actually large and heavy is carried on GAZelles: cheap, simple, big clearance, big often enclosed bed.
I don’t get it. It’s like seeing someone dragging around their empty suitcase. “Taking a trip?”
“No, but can leave anytime I want to.”🤷♂️🤷♀️
cool vid but wtf... europe had pickups before ww2, at least france did. Peugeot had a bunch like you showed, but Renault and Citroen as well. "Tarp vans" are just pickups with a tarp atop of the bed to cover the cargo btw so there were dozens of models for France alone.
Great video. I reckon that the overwhelming popularity of pick up trucks (I have had various ones in my stable for 25+ years) is simply in the malaise era the cars that people liked were gradually legislated out of existance by various governments. So now people drive vehicles that are on average 500 - 1000 kg heavier than they were, with bigger, more powerful engines than ever (My Ram has 395 HP!), and fuel consumption is far greater than it would be if people were driving much lighter cars.
This is an absolutely classic case of unintended consequences. I have been driving for 40+ years. For the first 15, I owned a car. I turned to trucks when I became unimpressed with what was on offer for cars, and as time has gone by, the trucks have evolved into the comfortable, spacious, and powerful vehicles that the midsize and fullsize cars used to be. Millions of others have agreed with me and voted with their wallets.
The overwhelming popularity is due to people not knowing how to buy cars and buying something with a massive gas tank and more power than they need, paying more for gas, when there's a Civic that can go the same distance with a smaller tank and better mileage overall.
Pickups and SUVs are the *dumbest cars on the American market.* It is a proven statistic that like 65-80% of Americans who own pickups *don't haul anything in them.* They own a hauling car, and then proceed to use them as they could use a Kia Soul.
@@Deadsphere it's very true. Anything north of 200 HP on a normal passenger car for a daily driver is fun, sure, but even if you're well off... You're gonna feel that gas mileage difference.
@@bldontmatter5319 So why do people daily pickups, then? These things come standard with like 32 gallon tanks, a 250hp V8, and extremely poor gas mileage. *WHY DO WE KEEP BUYING THEM?*
@Deadsphere I don't disagree with you. However, I think people buy pick up trucks because they like them. The people that buy them do so because they are roomy and comfortable. They have excellent sitelines and are perceived as safer. I think that in a world of other people driving trucks, they are in fact safer. Most folks who buy them would have not considered a truck 40-50 years ago, even less so in the 1960s, because they would have bought a midsize or full-size car. The people who bought smaller Japanese or European cars back then by preference are not the people who transitioned into pick up trucks now, it is the people who perceived that they needed the room for their families and their lifestyle. I reckon a lot of them stayed with their big sedans and wagons into the malaise era and then moved to pick-ups when the cars became more and more unappealing.
My point is not to judge people's choices, but to comment that a lot of regulation-driven changes in car design have led us to a point where the fleet of vehicles in the world are bigger, heavier, and thirstier than they might have otherwise been. Some regulations are no doubt beneficial but some, I think, are very questionable. 5 MPH bumpers are a prime example of the latter. These added about 150 kg of weight with no demonstrateable difference in safety and came about principally from an effective insurance lobby.
I drive a truck for fun, not gas mileage. I have a car for gas milage for my commute, and my truck for everything else. Not everything in life has to be about practicality- as long as you understand it will cost more, drive what you like!
"Fleetside" is a term unique to Chevrolet, not a generic term across brands as you suggest in this video. Even sister brand GMC did not use it but instead had their own term: "Wideside". International called their smooth outside beds "Bonus Load" beds. I don't know what terms Ford and Dodge used, but I'm sure they had their own.
I think you are correct about the term "step side" being generic, though.
You forgot about the Ford Ranchero and the Chevy El Camino. Then there is Dodg's sad attempt, the Dodge Rampage.
A lot of Germans surprisingly love the Dodge RAM 1500. Its a very common vehicle used by german tourists in Croatia. Obviously they all have German plates so i know they arent rentals
Watching your historical automotive history is always educational. Finally I have an example for closing my professional letters that’s eye catching and accurately reflects the period, in case I write to an old friend from long past.
Odd that I’m the first to comment and you didn’t draw attention to this one. ❤
I think it was the time he posted it
I can remember in the 1950's & 60's that contractors & farmers had pickups without radios. There were even some 1940's pickups without heaters. It is a wonder how much pickups have changed in my lifetime and who uses them.
3:17 can confirm this is _exactly_ how we sign off letters in Australia
I saw an early Oklahoma picture of a Model T with the back half of buckboard loaded with hay
Another great episode, I drive a ‘09 Holden Ute, it has a six litre V8, six speed manual, LSD, IRS, big brakes and 19 inch wheels. It’s great fun to drive and can haul a reasonable load in the back and cruises at 180 kph. It’s done over 300k kms and I’ll just keep fixing things as they break/wear.
the brazilian coachbuilders were very keen on their customization options for pickup trucks back in the day when imports were forbidden and the luxury segment lacked many options. So the wealth used to purchase new Ford or GM trucks, bring to a coachbuilder that usually added more space in the cab (sometimes ditching the bed) and making a whole new fiberglass body, with all the added luxury, extra plush velvet upholstery, fridge, air conditioning, whilst keeping those old diesel engines that suffered to bring the trucks to 100kph. Oddily enough, those customized pickups today still hold good value, given how well they were built and how mechanically reliable they are
On point!
For the quality of roads and streets around the US capital my full size crew cab Tundra is the perfect vehicle. I also have a European SUV and driving it on the same roads obliterated the suspension at both ends in 30k miles. (Just finished rebuilding it completely.) The moon crater landscapes wrought by the seemingly endless roadworks everywhere around us make driving a regular car near impossible. So yes, the crew cab pick-up truck is the Swiss army knife of vehicular offerings. I own other vehicles that do specific things much better than the Tundra but the pick-up does so many things with comfort for four!
Thanks for another interesting and informative video.
No Images of the Ford falcon ranchero. In the USA the small pickup truck was run out by EPA rules.
And the "Chicken Tax" on small imported trucks.
I loved the Brazilian mention, but you missed the compact pickups that were and still are very famous in Latin America.
The first one was the Fiat Fiorino, based on the 147/Uno, followed by the Chevrolet Chevy 500, based on the Chevette, the VW Saveiro, based on the Gol, Ford Pampa based on the Corcel (which itself was based on the Renault 12, the 80's were crazy).
Today we have the modern Fiat Strada, Chevrolet Montana (formerly Tornado in Mexico), the Saveiro still exists and now we have two bigger unibody sisters: The Fiat Toro and RAM Rampage. They kinda fight with the Montana and the Renault Oroch, based on the Renault/Dacia Duster
Yep!
And only $100k now 🤦♂️
150k he's good
100k and way too big for their own good.
In Australia, pick-ups are both adored and despised. The Superiority Complex you noted is very much real. The subtle bullying on the roads, (think of the movie "Duel") is astonishing.
Yep. But those guys in their Rangers are tough until you open the drivers door and ask them if they want to hug it out. Then they're all shy. Lol
The only pickup I ever owned was a brand new 1996 Ford Ranger .. manual transmission V6 with extended cab.
Thing was great.
Many of us in the US only use our pickups or cargo vans for hauling materials or other things. In my case it's a 1978 E-150 cargo van due to our weather, which requires a pickup with a cap or cover or a van. Unless you consider power steering & brakes to be luxuries, it is a utilitarian vehicle...
The SUV fad is already waning so expect a lot of second hand pickups on the used market soon....
I doubt many of us Americans appreciate how much effort you've invested in learning about American culture, while at the same time (assuredly) maintaining fluency in your own.
American privilege is a thing, for good or ill.
But we always mean well. For whatever that's worth.
No, electric trucks will NEVER happen. THE MORE You hawl or pull, you'll DRAW MORE CURRENT. And can OVERLOAD the electric engine and battery, making it useless
no word on the downsides of these giant death dozers? really?
He's on the payroll
In America we want S10 trucks and blazers back.
Great video Ed, as usual. As an Aussie, I'm of course more familiar and interested in our Aussie made utes, though do see the appeal of the dual cab utes/pick ups - particularly Hilux, Ranger and Isuzu D-Max. I don't own one, and not looking to get one at the moment, as frankly, I don't need one.
They also seem like great vehicles, biggest problem I have with them is that they're way over-engineered for what most people use them for on a day to day basis.
Surprised you also didn't mention the South African "Bakkies"?
HYEAH BRASIL MENTIONED!!! Awesome!!!! (I myself didnt knew too much about that, awesome :-)
Ford Ranger is an American Pickup Truck!
Even though I'm born and raised in NYC,
I finally became an American In the year 2000 when NYState finally legalized pickup trucks on parkways and I bought a brand new & beautiful Gold Ford Ranger XLT!
Sadly, NYS still prohibits you from driving commercial pickup trucks on parkways and parkways are the only way to get around NYC, Long Island and Westchester!
From humble haulers for ruralites to egowagons for rich businessmen... I am American and always owned a light truck + car and always old trucks for the simplicity and ease of maintaining it. However, once I leave America, I plan on never looking twice at pickup trucks. The new ones are just straight-up ego-wagons to make the driver feel dangerous, which they are due to their dangerous size
12:54 I have to disagree, in Europe pickups are not common, registration numbers may be in the low one digit percentage. Yes, you will see them on the roads occasionally, but even parking at the grocery store will be a problem. Not to mention that in Europe throughout the standard driving license is limited to 3500 kg / ~7000 lb GVWR. Nobody want's to upgrade the drivers licence (to class C1 or C) for such a pickup and spend therefore some 1000+ Euro/US-Dollar for a licence with restrictions like health check every 5 years (or 2 years after the age of 60).
CAFE regulations in the U.S. are the reason why trucks here have become behemoths. Lower fuel economy for a larger footprint (width, length and height). Personally, I still drive pick-ups from the 1970s and 1980s. It is good to keep the old iron on the road and at least it isn't a damned impractical "EV".
If you live in an apartment and have to move every few years it's handy to have a pickup truck. The down side is all your friends also "expect" you to help them move.
Great video. One note: Fleetside was a GM term, while Styleside was Ford’s name for the non-stepside bed. Fun fact: internally at Ford, the term Styleside is still used to describe the non-step side bed, in some service and engineering info, even tho Ford hasn’t produced a stepside in several years. 🇺🇸
Also, full disclosure. I’m an American and absolutely love pickups and large SUVs. I’ve lived with them all my life and can’t live without em.
The one problem with the pickup (beyond items in the bed getting rained on or stolen at stop lights ) is the drivers seem mostly incapable if parking then within the parking space properly because they are driven by a lot of incompetent dopes.
Also, over the last two years, they’ve now integrated pick up trucks based off of compact SUVs Such as the Ford maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz Those are based off the bronco, sport and Tucson.
They don’t even offer a regular cab like older, Rangers S-10, Sonoma, Tacoma, Dakotas, and frontiers did
Also, for the mid size pick up truck, there is also a convertible pick up truck based off the Jeep wrangler called the gladiator The new Colorado in Tacoma are nice, but they’re bigger then they used to be
"electric trucks" are a scam, and yeah~ if the US Government scrapped "CAFE", these absurd overcompensations would soon vanish 😆
For every Ford Lightning sold, three are recalled.😂
The van is still superior. My Fiat Ducato is larger than a F-150, the cargo space is 3,7m long, so it has much more space and it´s enclosed. That means whatever I haul stays dry, is way harder to steal and I can have a hammock inside. It can do everything a pickup can, just better.
I have one of the last step-side Chevys, they made less than 5,000 for the 2005 model year.
It's a weird juxtaposition between extremely good parts availability, and next to nothing for the box like taillights and so on. It'll be a bad day if something happens to it 😅
As for usability of the actual steps themselves, well they're not much lower than the tailgate and are tiny, if I didn't have bed rails they'd be extremely dangerous in the wet. I can imagine at least one person has died because of the tiny steps of the 2000s 😅
Modern pickup trucks are such a rip off. They're way overpriced, loaded with luxury crap, and come with a tiny bed. Anything less than 4'x8', or the almighty flatbed, is a suburban toy.
The huge pitfall . . . Where is the pick-up for farmers, ranchers and small businesses? 😢
The manufacturers dropped the ball and forgot the whole point, it's supposed to be A TRUCK!!!
In Saudi Arabia we have the same debate, why buy a pickup if you don't need it? Many people in Saudi Arabia of all ages buy a pickup, even if they live in the city. I think the main reason for that is that it provides everything at a good price. A two-door Toyota Hilux, for example, is a car with a single-row seat, rear-wheel drive, 4 cylinders, and a manual transmission. It's like buying a Mazda Miata but you can take it to the desert!
As an American, I have owned five vehicles. Three of them have been trucks. Two of them have been SUVs. I like cars especially ones of manual transmissions. But I find the activities I like to partake in are better suited if I have a SUV or truck. I like mountain biking camping hunting and fishing among other outdoors activities.
I have three jeeps my latest vehicle is a jeep gladiator pick up.
I used to have a giant diesel pick up. It was great on the dirt roads but once he got on the trails in the mountains, it was way too big.
My wrangler on the other hand was small, nimble, fairly comfortable, but had no room for my family and my camping gear . The gladiator is big enough for my family yet small enough for the trails has enough storage for my camping gear if it’s all the niches that I need. Plus it’s a convertible.
I would like to own a car one day like a WRX.
But I think I’ll always have a truck in the driveway too . Because of those activities I mentioned and the driving experience.
I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of my gladiator, solid front and rear axles, great articulation, off-road, small and nimble, yet spacious . I really think it 10 years you won’t be able to get a vehicle like this anymore. I think I’ll be the 70-year-old dude at the end of the street. The last one holding out without an electric truck driving his old old beat up jeep. 😂
Funny thing about truck culture in the USA is typically the only trucks you see doing actual truck stuff are the old mini-trucks like the S10 and old style Ranger. We need and want small trucks back.
I love my 2002 Ford SVT Lightning ⚡️⚡️⚡️ It’s a great truck! I bought it new in May 2002.
What isn't to like is no parking space. At least over here in Europe. They are dangerous. At least for other traffic people. And a EV is shit as hell! In my sight, you might have a tiny dick, to have such kind of crap. Cars use to be more tiny, as it use to be now. More Economic. Or the cars, there are already on the road. What is better, as we save resources of stuff we don't nead in future, because they are already there. That isn't good for the industry, but saves the planet imidiately. It never can be good, for building more and more items, for shit we already have.
I live in the USA, I'm in my 60's, and have owned pcik up's for years. But not as daily driver. I have a Dodge with a diesel and 5 speed box and 4 wheel drive. It is a tool, not a toy.
Interesting video until their hard pitch for coal powered trucks at the end. The process of mining and developing lithium and cobalt is far from green, and far from humane. These knuckleheads who are trying to force EV’s on the world are selling everyone a bill of goods! Technology which has to be forced on the public is technology which isn’t ready! When time comes to move to a more efficient power source I think the future has better options in the works. So save the batteries for the energizer bunny, give me a gasoline powered engine!
EV pickup trucks are terrible. Aside from being insanely expensive, their range when towing is half of what they advertise. The automakers took the impracticable idea of an EV car and expanded on it with a guaranteed loser concept of a EV p/u.
Biggest seller in NZ is the Ford Ranger a.k.a. the Wanking Tractor because 9/10 if you've been cut off or tailgated, it's a wanker in a Ranger.
Missed opportunity to talk about Chevy's Rampside Corvair in response to VW's forward control trucks. Didn't work out, but an interesting footnote in history
Yes finally a video about trucks.
Trucks are popular because the days of having a car to drive to work all week and a seperate car to take out on the weekends or to church are long gone. Most families only have one vehicle per driver if theyre lucky. And the trucks have become so close to cars driving characteristic wise it just makes sense. I "only" have a midsize but its 4 door and 4 wheel drive. I can take it to work all week and do whatever i need to do on the weekends. It handles bad roads way better than my super low sedan. It handles the hills and highways better with the v8 than the v6 in my sedan. It gets about the same mpgs.
Onlt reason Ford is the best selling truck is because no one combines Chevy Truck and GMC sales which outsell Fords from one manufacturer
Daily commuting and using them as status symbols has reduced their capability they are usually too big to maneuver off road and park, too high to load cargo easily, too short of beds, and most of all too expensive!
Definitely not great, not that comfortable, heavy, poor handling. I use one for work but have personal sedans and wagons.
EV trucks aren't selling well at all to say the least.
I have a 2019 For Ranger 4X4 only 2800 miles on it. It has a turbo and it flies quick
I love how almost every american history involves. . . Lobbying
It was not a centralised commie economy, so lobbying was normal.
You gave me a hernia from laughing so hard at the Aussie letter to Ford. Another video in the win column for you.
For me it’s the dependability. My 2000 Chevy 2500 has 348000 miles on its original powertrain. 6 liter gas engine paired with either a 4l80 automatic or nv4500 manual are insanely hard to kill.
Ok but you've spent so much on fuel that you'd be better off with buying a new compact every 10 years over that thing
@@bldontmatter5319I don’t believe in that. If I’m buying a vehicle it should last 30 years at least. A compact isn’t gonna tow my project cars to car shows either. Working on compact cars sucks
@@Iamthestig42069 what
Compact cars from Toyota, Honda... Don't need to be maintained other than the basics. Most people never even need to change out the serp belt lol
@@bldontmatter5319let us have our fun
@@bldontmatter5319 people dont even do the basics especially on trucks
14:54 ah yes. I charge my power tools with my electric pickup, and then sit stranded there as the tools ended up exhausting my range
That Tesla at 7,000 lbs isn't going anywhere. Just another toy for the rich.
In Argentina, the cars are so heavily taxes that a Toyota Hilux is chepaer than a Toyota Corolla, giving more vehicle for the same price; that's why the Hilux was second best seller behind the Fiat Cronos