Kia is testing an electric pickup in the US that looks like a Ford F-150 Lightning
Kia is testing an electric pickup in the US that looks like a Ford F-150 Lightning
Is this the Ford F-150 Lightning rival we’ve been waiting for? The first Kia electric pickup was spotted testing in...
In a study conducted by Axios, researchers found that a significant portion of modern pickup truck owners rarely, if never, use their vehicles for hauling, towing, or other typical truck stuff. Instead, they are more likely to be used for shopping, running errands, and commuting.
American pickup truck culture is far from practical, it's habitual. I truly hope our generation can break that culture. Death to pickup trucks, SUVs and sports crossovers
Pickup trucks don't need to die. They just need to return to being the utility vehicles they used to be with a full bed and not an entire SUV worth of cab. An F-150 now is larger than a 350 was in the 90s, but has less bed than a 77 Subaru Brat. My Mazda B2200 was a great little truck that could hold a stack of plywood and some 2x4s for a weekend project and handled and had visibility like a Civic. Bring that back.
CAFE standards inadvertently killed small pickups because they allow worse fuel efficiency the bigger the vehicle is. Rather than figuring out how to build more efficient small trucks automakers just make them bigger. Congress should go back and fix the legislation, but they won't. So we are stuck with Tacoma's that are bigger than old T100s etc.
Add the "I need a big truck to prove I am manly culture" and even the electric trucks are too damn big. (Efficient to share parts with non-electric trucks contributes too.)
Can't agree more. Pickups all now have to cosplay like they are semis.
I guess some people found out their precious trucks were technically still "light duty" so Ford decided to call them "super duty" to make them feel better while putting gigantic pointless front ends.
But if trucks went back to being reasonably practical designs, how could they proudly display truck nuts?
Pickup trucks can be great, but a huge amount of the shit they're making now shouldn't even qualify as a real pickup anymore. They've gone from being super practical and utilitarian to just fucking ridiculous peacocking bullshit.
What do you mean, do you not want to take up four parking spaces so you can have your 5 foot bed?
Their ownership and usage needs to be regulated into the ground... Maybe rental only unless registered to a business and that business must prove it hauls heavy things and pays a penalty for roads and stuff.
Interesting.
Not sure I disagree with you.
Also not sure how to make this feasible for the folks without credit cards/significant money in checking for the deposit.
Then there are those republicans who would try their best to sink any such proposal, and any political capital is better used (arguably) on fixing the health insurance system.
The latter has concrete economic benefits, the former can be blown off by the right easily.
Or, we could just invest the money and solve both problems. If war bonds can be a thing, why the actual fuck are climate bonds and Medicare for all bonds not reasonable?
We as a nation a)make good on debt, congress be damned, and b) need both climate work and also healthcare work.
Another truck with a flat hood that hides anyone shorter than 5 feet tall? Thanks, I hate it. No wonder we have so many road deaths in America when manufactures are allowed to make vehicles with such poor visibility.
Mandate cab over trucks
Giant Kei Trucks
I just want an affordable electric car. Can we please focus on this?
Smallest truck, with the largest, most usable bed, cheapest price, go.
Like that?
In small cities in Italy many little pickup trucks drive around, that are even smaller. But I currently can't find them or remember a name...
All I want is a 4x4 kei truck that's like 15% bigger for us tallbois.
1997 Honda Acty 👆
Can i get that paint job?
Most of the "camo" prototype paints are way more fun that the bland greys that apprently sell well.
Could I get a practical truck? I'm a courier, I need seating for one, good cargo capacity and good range. I'd buy a Maverick if'n they offered it in a extended cab, I mean with how many plants make that chassis, I can't see why they can't offer an extended cab targeted at the business market.
Doesn't it only come with a crew cab? Or have I always misunderstood what a crew cab is?
Whoops, fixed that
Will the price be jacked up like the F-150 Lightning?
It does not look like a F-150. Maybe a Nissan Frontier.
I just want a truck that isn't stupid!
A want a dumb truck. I hate all the extra electronics that add cost and failure points. Bring the Hilux to the US! Or, even better, Kei trucks.
I just want an electric Maverick.
