Pickup trucks!

[hondansx]

Digby said:

I got mine so I can look hard.....in a "Haha, look at that tt" kind of way.

I am in love with that!

[gizlaroc]

dieseluser07 said:

Why is there pickup trucks everywhere.

Ford rangers

And so forth. Ive never seen anything at all in the boot of the ones ive seen. Is it a new fashion statement?

It is what you can get in them when you need to that makes them so useful.

Just because someone can get all 3 bikes in the back of one when they go up to the trails 3 times a week doesn't mean they put the bikes in the back when going to Waitrose to stop the bloke next to them getting confused.


Residuals are high, Company car tax is low.

£28000 3.2 V6 Auto Wildtrak comes in at £55 a month BIK tax for someone on 22% rate and you can be in one for £260 a month.

So, Audi A3, BMW 116d, Ford Fiesta sort of costs.

[donkmeister]

Doesn't the tax-friendliness only apply to single row cabs? I recall something in the news over a decade ago about closing a tax loophole that had benefited people buying crew-cabs as family cars.

[carlos241]

tax is for vehicles that can take a 1 tonne load or more which most pickup trucks are nowadays

[underphil]

gizlaroc said:

It is what you can get in them when you need to that makes them so useful.

Just because someone can get all 3 bikes in the back of one when they go up to the trails 3 times a week doesn't mean they put the bikes in the back when going to Waitrose to stop the bloke next to them getting confused.


Residuals are high, Company car tax is low.

£28000 3.2 V6 Auto Wildtrak comes in at £55 a month BIK tax for someone on 22% rate and you can be in one for £260 a month.

So, Audi A3, BMW 116d, Ford Fiesta sort of costs.

but then your fuel bill is double?

and presumably decent tyres must cost a fair bit?

[normalbloke]

gizlaroc said:

dieseluser07 said:

Why is there pickup trucks everywhere.

Ford rangers

And so forth. Ive never seen anything at all in the boot of the ones ive seen. Is it a new fashion statement?

It is what you can get in them when you need to that makes them so useful.

Just because someone can get all 3 bikes in the back of one when they go up to the trails 3 times a week doesn't mean they put the bikes in the back when going to Waitrose to stop the bloke next to them getting confused.


Residuals are high, Company car tax is low.

£28000 3.2 V6 Auto Wildtrak comes in at £55 a month BIK tax for someone on 22% rate and you can be in one for £260 a month.

So, Audi A3, BMW 116d, Ford Fiesta sort of costs.

They do a V6 now?.....

[warch]

I've had several crew cab pickups through work, Toyota Hiluxs and Mitsubishi L200s, including a Warrior which was great. I'd love to own one if my commute was shorter and I didn't already have a Land Rover. The Warrior would do early-mid 30's to the gallon if you didn't thrash it, Crew cab tyres last for ages (10cm tread depth helps here). I drove all over the country in mine and it was perfectly comfortable, if not exactly the last work in speed and corning aptitude.

You could easily make a case for one as a family car, especially if you have bikes or dogs.

[Harji]

Understand their purpose and use for many, but in London are driven by people who like to dominate the road, its like they've suddenly grown some. I woul d like one, but being office based it will have no purpose, my dream job would be hauling stuff across muddy tracks.

[warch]

Harji said:

Understand their purpose and use for many, but in London are driven by people who like to dominate the road, its like they've suddenly grown some. I woul d like one, but being office based it will have no purpose, my dream job would be hauling stuff across muddy tracks.

People in London have been driving big unnecessary 4x4s for years. Wouldn't fancy trying to find a parallel parking space for a crew cab in typical narrow suburban streets on a regular basis though.

I put the aggressive driver thing down to the typical owner profile, they're often owned by press on, builders and other tradesman who are invariably very busy, in a hurry and don't suffer impediments to progress quietly.

[theplayingmantis]

Have a pair of Isuzu double cabs. Rollover backs full of crap, muck, oily.

Assume OP and s referring to those who’s rears are pristine and have clearly never seen a load in their life and never will (that’s sounds a bit wrong), and have been purchased to project a certain image.

[anonymous-user]

I drive a double cab navara with a truckman rear top.

I can get all my drums and a PA in it, or 3 push bikes when I need to.

It's high, it's comfy, and when we had the bad snow in December the 4wd proved it's worth.

It's supremely comfortable doing a 250mile north wales to essex run too.

And 3 years old cost me 10k.

Why wouldn't I have one?

[brrapp]

Round about here (extremely rural) all the farm boys have them instead if Mx5s and 3series. Absolutely cracking for drifting and other sorts of immature motoring fun.

[underphil]

warch said:

I've had several crew cab pickups through work, Toyota Hiluxs and Mitsubishi L200s, including a Warrior which was great. I'd love to own one if my commute was shorter and I didn't already have a Land Rover. The Warrior would do early-mid 30's to the gallon if you didn't thrash it, Crew cab tyres last for ages (10cm tread depth helps here). I drove all over the country in mine and it was perfectly comfortable, if not exactly the last work in speed and corning aptitude.

You could easily make a case for one as a family car, especially if you have bikes or dogs.

pretty noisy in the cabin at speed?

[so called]

underphil said:

pretty noisy in the cabin at speed?

A couple of years ago, I told my Wife I was off out to buy a pickup.
I came back with a TVR Cerbera.
Thats pretty noisy too.

[The Moose]

brrapp said:

Round about here (extremely rural) all the farm boys have them instead if Mx5s and 3series. Absolutely cracking for drifting and other sorts of immature motoring fun.

I had a rental Ram 1500 in the snow in the North a couple of weeks ago.

Big empty parking lot + 4WD disengaged + traction control turned off = huge grins + wife rolling her eyes

Great fun

[warch]

underphil said:

warch said:

I've had several crew cab pickups through work, Toyota Hiluxs and Mitsubishi L200s, including a Warrior which was great. I'd love to own one if my commute was shorter and I didn't already have a Land Rover. The Warrior would do early-mid 30's to the gallon if you didn't thrash it, Crew cab tyres last for ages (10cm tread depth helps here). I drove all over the country in mine and it was perfectly comfortable, if not exactly the last work in speed and corning aptitude.

You could easily make a case for one as a family car, especially if you have bikes or dogs.

pretty noisy in the cabin at speed?

Not too bad, although my frame of reference is slightly skewed as my other main mode of transport is a motorbike. The thing that always reminds you that you are driving a pickup is the slightly cramped driving position, the space between the seat and the pedals is rarely adequate if you have long legs. Yank pickups have massive cabs by the look of them.

[Willy Nilly]

Jimmy Recard said:

Willy Nilly said:

We have a 2015 LWB Transit pickup and a 2004 Ranger and the Transit is in a different league. Not sure what the new Rangers are like, but the Transit's really nice. They perhaps could offer the 3.6 and 6 sp auto in the Transit, or, the V6 Ecoboost like they do in the USA. It certainly isn't a car, but still very nice to drive and a brilliant utility truck.

The current Ranger is nicer than the Transit. The 2004 Ranger is less nice than the current Transit.

We used to have an X reg LWB 316 Sprinter with over 400,000 miles on it. That drove better and was much nippier than the Ranger.

Pickups really have very little going for them.

[anonymous-user]

Willy Nilly said:

Jimmy Recard said:

Willy Nilly said:

We have a 2015 LWB Transit pickup and a 2004 Ranger and the Transit is in a different league. Not sure what the new Rangers are like, but the Transit's really nice. They perhaps could offer the 3.6 and 6 sp auto in the Transit, or, the V6 Ecoboost like they do in the USA. It certainly isn't a car, but still very nice to drive and a brilliant utility truck.

The current Ranger is nicer than the Transit. The 2004 Ranger is less nice than the current Transit.

We used to have an X reg LWB 316 Sprinter with over 400,000 miles on it. That drove better and was much nippier than the Ranger.

Pickups really have very little going for them.

They don't look like a sprinter so that's one plus.

[Triumph Man]

normalbloke said:

gizlaroc said:

dieseluser07 said:

Why is there pickup trucks everywhere.

Ford rangers

And so forth. Ive never seen anything at all in the boot of the ones ive seen. Is it a new fashion statement?

It is what you can get in them when you need to that makes them so useful.

Just because someone can get all 3 bikes in the back of one when they go up to the trails 3 times a week doesn't mean they put the bikes in the back when going to Waitrose to stop the bloke next to them getting confused.


Residuals are high, Company car tax is low.

£28000 3.2 V6 Auto Wildtrak comes in at £55 a month BIK tax for someone on 22% rate and you can be in one for £260 a month.

So, Audi A3, BMW 116d, Ford Fiesta sort of costs.

They do a V6 now?.....

I thought the 3.2 was an inline 5 diesel?

[normalbloke]

Triumph Man said:

normalbloke said:

gizlaroc said:

dieseluser07 said:

Why is there pickup trucks everywhere.

Ford rangers

And so forth. Ive never seen anything at all in the boot of the ones ive seen. Is it a new fashion statement?

It is what you can get in them when you need to that makes them so useful.

Just because someone can get all 3 bikes in the back of one when they go up to the trails 3 times a week doesn't mean they put the bikes in the back when going to Waitrose to stop the bloke next to them getting confused.


Residuals are high, Company car tax is low.

£28000 3.2 V6 Auto Wildtrak comes in at £55 a month BIK tax for someone on 22% rate and you can be in one for £260 a month.

So, Audi A3, BMW 116d, Ford Fiesta sort of costs.

They do a V6 now?.....

I thought the 3.2 was an inline 5 diesel?

Was I too subtle?