Many people don't understand how CAFE regulatons effect what products auto manufacturers produce. It is currently a convoluted set of rules that favor larger vehicles. It is what led to the demise of the station wagon, short wheel base pickup trucks, and recently sedans in the North American...
Wonder why they are in Port Huron. That area is not known much for off roading except for maybe some bombing through the farm fields. Or maybe they were on their back from wheeling in Canada.
The newly developed Ineos Grenadier has a sfa. If you watch their development videos of the undercarriage and suspension you will see that they modeled them after the Jeep Wrangler. They even used the Dana axles and mopar steel wheels on their prototypes.
I dont' have photoshop skills but I can sketch. Regular cab Bronco Pickup with bench seat and a 6 foot divorced bed. I wouldn't even care if they called it a Ranger.
Oh ya, I forgot about the Chevy Luv truck. I had regular cab short bed S10's. An '86, '88, and still have my '94 ZR2.
I did the sketch this morning based off a sketch of the 4 door Bronco. It's the same premise that the Mopar designers came up with for the J6. Build a versatile small...
If Ford is considering building a Bronco pickup they should consider building it as a regular cab or extended cab reminiscent of the 80's and 90's Ranger. They already have many offerings in a crew cab with tiny bed configuration and perhaps some buyers would value more useable bed space over...
Well said. Where I live in Northern Michigan I ride the trails at least a couple of times each week. I have yet to see a Gladiator off-road except at Silver Lake Sand Dunes and on the gravel fire roads in the Upper Peninsula.
Ford still sells the F150 in a regular cab short bed configuration in North America as well or a base price of $28,940. GM still builds a regular cab short bed Silverado in U.S. factories for the South American and overseas markets but not the North American market.
I hear yah. I'm sick of these crew cab with tiny bed pickups. Give me a 2 door regular cab with bench seat and at the least a 6 foot bed that I could put a slide in camper in for fishing trips to the UP.