• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I love small trucks. My parents have a '93 ranger, it gets pretty good mileage with that little 4 cylinder engine, and has a 7ft bed, and it’s hauled all of the lumber and furniture we’ve ever needed it to.

    It’s only rwd, so it’s kind of shit in any kind of weather, and it’s 0-60 time is probably best stated as “eventually” but that’s realistically all I need from a truck.

    I like the maverick, but I’m not a fan of the short bed. I’m crossing my fingers that maybe they manage to finagle a midgate into it somewhere down the line.

    Otherwise I’d really love for them to bring back something like the 90s style rangers (or Tacoma, S10, Dakota, etc.) as a hybrid or electric, or hell even a decent modern 4 cylinder turbo could probably give a nice mpg and performance boost. The modern versions of those small trucks are significantly bigger than I need them to be, and in at least some cases you can’t even get them in a long bed configuration anymore.