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Agreed. If the F150 is Ford's "light" truck, what does that make the significantly smaller Maverick?
by usefulcat 1y ago
Agreed. If the F150 is Ford's "light" truck, what does that make the significantly smaller Maverick?
- engineer_22 1y agoMaverick is styled like a truck, but unibody design is more like a ute. Same way the Subaru Outback is not a truck
- Marsymars 1y agoI've always found that to be a silly distinction, like it's a thing that matters to use cases in the same way that axle type matters, but it's not the sole distinguishing marker of whether something is a "truck". There are various non-trucks that are body-on-frame - BMW i3, Ford Crown Vic, Suzuki Jimny, etc. (The highest-spec Jimny tows less than the lowest-spec Honda Ridgeline.)
- engineer_22 1y agoOk if it looks like a truck it's a truck
- Aloisius 1y agoIt is a truck. Unibody might not be commonly used by truck makers, but using it doesn't mean it's not a truck. A Tread Unibody bulk truck can haul 50K pounds and no one would call it a ute.
- engineer_22 1y agoThe Tread Unibody is describing a piece of equipment mounted to a regular truck chassis. Their product advertisement show they're mounted to conventional Westernstar, Mack...