Thoughts on Chevy Colorado or Ford Ranger

[Lastkidpicked]

That was the BRATT, which was frankly even cooler.

BRAT = Bi Drive Recreational truck...

Memories!

Those seats were made out of the same plastic as our chairs at school.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I’ve long been a Dodge ram truck owner and like them, but I’ve never heard anyone claiming they were a smooth ride.

'18 half-ton, 5.7, 8 speed auto, 3.92 rear end, full crew-cab with the 6'4" bed, along with the rear coil-spring suspension. It was a long, smooth riding truck.

Obviously not as big as an equivalent HD truck, but there isn't an HD that drives the way it did.

My F350 drives great, it feels like an old half-ton more than an old buckboard 1 ton from 30-40 years ago. Still, it's no match for any current half-ton with regards to ride comfort. The modern half-ton trucks drive like the old RWD barges I used to love, with nicer suspension and less body roll.

She was a great truck.

 

[Bearsixty7]

IMO, they are ALL over priced today

Fixed it for you!

 

[Jstpssng]

Fixed it for you!

You both are masters at stating the obvious.

 

[Hay Dude]

Another thing, to say the Silverado did this or the F150 did that is totally unfair, as who knows how it was optioned? It may have a completely different suspension than the one sitting next to it.

I have a friend that bleeds ford, and I mean he's a real di-hard ford lover. I picked him up to go with me to Ok., and about a hundred miles down the road he said, "I hate to admit this to you, but this Chevy rides better than my new f150".

BTW, this is the milage I got on the Ok. trip, and I pretty much kept the speedo on 75.

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I had one Toyota, it was a manual tranny and it jumped out of reverse all the time, they never fixed it. It also started hard in cold weather, then there's all those Toyota pu's that had the frames rot out of them in a couple years, Toyota replaced a lot of frames before the warr, was up, but there's still a bunch of used ones around on the road.

SR

Took me a while to cut the cord with Ford, too. I owned almost nothing buy Ford for 20+ years. Dozens of their trucks. Typically had at least 3 at once. In 2007, I tried a new GMC 3500 4x4 Dmax/Ally. Was really happy with that truck. Problem was, they didn’t make a heavier duty version that would fit in a garage. Only choice was Ram & Ford. Then after 10’s of thousands in repairs to Ford 6.4L diesel, it was time to make a change.
Ram chassis has won me over. If it were to be a pickup, Chevy would probably be right there with Ram. Tough choice.
Ford has done things to turn me off and now they are getting into “social issues”. Turns me off even more. The other thing I dislike is their lurch to EV’s and the emphasis on making the F-150 the greatest selling vehicle. I could give a damn about sales numbers. If the girl down the road has been with more guys than anyone, does that make her the best girl? Lol

 

[Hay Dude]

We sometimes forget just how much better the selection is these days. Other than high prices, it's a great time to be looking at trucks.



Speaking of things getting better: Do you remember, not that long ago, mirrors were attached at fixed points on a truck? So if you hit something, it didn't fold in, it crumpled the door.

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Remember when the Baja had backwards facing seats in the bed?

It's easy to poke fun at the Ridgeline, but have you ever seen one with the wheels taken off? Those brakes are built stronger than full size pickups of the past.

Yeah where I live, mirrors like that would be destroyed in just a few days. Theres little to zero road maintenance where I live. People just drive down the middle of the road till another vehicle approaches, then they look for an open spot to pull their car into to let oncoming car go by.

Sometimes it gets real close.

 

[Milo]

...... If the girl down the road has been with more guys than anyone, does that make her the best girl? Lol

There is something to be said for experience!

 

[tacticalturnip]

Sometimes it gets real close.

I've got a single-lane bridge down the road; it wouldn't be surprising if it wasn't built within the last 5-10 years. When they tore the old single-lane down we were excited, only for them to replace it with an even more narrow equivalent.

 

[Milo]

These pics are of the only road that leads to my driveway, which in most places is not wide enough for two small vehicles (Corolla, Wrangler, etc) to pass so one has to back up. The only places two Colorado size vehicles can pass are at the few pull-offs or when one pulls into a driveway to let the other one by. My Ridgeline is a big vehicle on roads like this I sure wouldn't want any larger.

 

[tacticalturnip]

These pics are of the only road that leads to my driveway, which in most places is not wide enough for two small vehicles (Corolla, Wrangler, etc) to pass so one has to back up. The only places two Colorado size vehicles can pass are at the few pull-offs or when one pulls into a driveway to let the other one by. My Ridgeline is a big vehicle on roads like this I sure wouldn't want any larger.

Are you in the mountains? I've driven some narrow roads, but that is narrow. I've driven roads like that, but it wasn't stateside; I can't imagine traveling it daily in a truck.