Feels like a truck until…..

[Traegorn]

Yeah...the big truck brodozer comments about little winkies is REALLY getting old. So if I drive my F-250 to pull my 20 foot utility trailer I've got a little winkie?? But I get home after work and switch to my Mav and head to Wal-Mart I'm Long Dong Silver??? LOL....doesn't work that way. Man...that cliche' is just so old and overused. Bottom line....you can't pull a Bobcat with a Mav....and your F-350 is not going to get 45 mpg at the end of the week of driving. Let's leave it at that.

It's not that I think guys who drive big trucks have small packages.

It's that I think that certain guys who are afraid that they have small packages buy big trucks when all they really need is either a compact truck (or more often than not a minivan) because they're scared of not looking tough. They think they'll look weak buying a Honda Odyssey when it's what they actually need.

Being scared of looking weak because of the vehicle you drive? That's some small d energy right there.

Those are the guys I'm making fun of.

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[HeyBales]

Feels like a truck until ...

You need just a single 8 ft 2x4.
Tailgate down need to secure it - tailgate up it doesn't appear secure bouncing around - so probably should too.

And while taking the time to wrap strap it down - you recall being able to fit it in your small Rav4 by merely aiming it to the passenger footwell - didn't rub or bounce on anything and rear door closed.

My 1st truck - maybe needing to take that extra time to strap something small down is part of it.

 

[Kenv24]

It's not that I think guys who drive big trucks have small packages.

It's that I think that certain guys who are afraid that they have small packages buy big trucks when all they really need is either a compact truck (or more often than not a minivan) because they're scared of not looking tough. They think they'll look weak buying a Honda Odyssey when it's what they actually need.

Being scared of looking weak because of the vehicle you drive? That's some small d energy right there.

Those are the guys I'm making fun of.

LOL…I hear ya. Funny…I had a 2005 Honda Odyssey when my second daughter was born. No better vehicle for hauling babies and gear!! Now those same daughters borrow my 250 when they head to the coast and need the room and bed space.

 

[Timothyd]

In 1981 I bought a 1978 F100 regular cab with an 8-ft bed and it was significantly larger than my Maverick in all dimensions. The 300 cubic inch straight 6 with the three-speed manual shifter was a good combo. I routinely got over 20 mpg on the highway and with one tank I got mid 20's on a trip. Everything was hand calculated back then.

Yeah, it would be nice to go back but.........

 

[Cherokee]

Yeah my Lariat is big car quiet, comfortable and big car powerful. And it’s got a useable truck bed.

Can’t wait to see what EVERY other car maker does to copy the original.
So far it’s stands alone and No I do not consider the larger Honda or the crappy Hundai as competitors

 

[OWP]

Yep agree......as someone who also owned a SD and a Maverick - and now a SD after my poor Maverick got totaled .....

I mean it would be like someone looking at anyone driving a Maverick and assuming thats all the truck they could afford - which would be totally and completely wrong thing to do .....

I love the Maverick because it reminds of the mini trucks from back in the day- I was planning on lowering and doing wheels and tires on mine.....

If you look at any mans hobbies .......we all buy crap we dont need so I dont understand the judgement by some people here.....

I got mine because I was thinking about the mini truck vibe too, even tho its large by those standards. I was also thinking about how back in the day when AWD Turbo 4 cars were coming out and I couldn't afford em, so this also scratched that itch.
I can be very fickle but assuming I don't lose interest in a couple of years then I'll do wheels and lowering when the current tires are worn down some more. I have some ideas to throwback to the vehicles I wanted when I was younger.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

There's a quote from a show called The Walking Dead where this Negan character says "My dick is bigger than yours, we both know it" and that's what I think whenever I see one of those massive overcompensation machines lol.

 

[Darryl]

About the same I’d think, maybe 5% less at 70 and 10% less at 80. Those bigger displacement engines liked highway speeds.

Had a small V-8 in my 1976 MonteCarlo and got 19 on the interstate at 70
Got 21 in my 4 banger 1974 Ranger.

In town the Ranger got 18 and the Monte Carlo got 15

My Maverick would have easily outrun the 305 V-8 in the quarter mile.
But that Monte Carlo was such a sexy beast.
It floated down the road.

I’m not talking about the v8s that got 18-19 mpg. In cars. Speed didn’t affect them as much. But trucks with their final drive ratios made for pulliing and 4cyls that ran at high rpms tended to be affected somewhat dramatically if speed went over 65-70. Many weren’t too far from their top speed at 80. And it wasn’t artificially governed like cars are today the wind and rpm did it. I remember those inline 6 would pull a stump at low rpm. But they’d run out of steam at high rpm. And they’d Easily hit the high rpm since they were geared somewhat low and some didn’t even have overdrive. Not to mention the fact that they were like a box pushing against the wind.

 

[Escapologist]

I remember those inline 6 would pull a stump at low rpm. But they’d run out of steam at high rpm. And they’d Easily hit the high rpm since they were geared somewhat low and some didn’t even have overdrive. Not to mention the fact that they were like a box pushing against the wind.

So I got this somewhat less mechanically bright nephew, and when he was 18 his inlaws passed him along a i6 Chevy that had just been trundling round town with a landscape trailer for 20 years, 200,000 miles. Anyway, I guess he was informed it was "bullet proof", so he'd be commuting 40 miles in it trying to do 70 on the highway. Well it must have had the low axle ratio and it wasn't long before the headgasket blew out. I saw it after this, and the valvegear didn't look in great shape and the head was banana-ed. Also had 3 headbolts snap off below the deck. These were few and far between in the yards by this time, so I think he just had to let it go, due to no easy/cheap motors or heads around.

 

[Nosrepmodnar]

I love watching the duallies that have never haled anything beside their owners egos flying down the highway at 90 getting 5mpg..
This truck is great, hauled a 10' butcher block table to my daughters house. Hauls my 16' step ladder.
If i needed to haul around a horse trailer i would have bought something else

 

[BlueOval1954]

It's not that I think guys who drive big trucks have small packages.

It's that I think that certain guys who are afraid that they have small packages buy big trucks when all they really need is either a compact truck (or more often than not a minivan) because they're scared of not looking tough. They think they'll look weak buying a Honda Odyssey when it's what they actually need.

Being scared of looking weak because of the vehicle you drive? That's some small d energy right there.

Those are the guys I'm making fun of.

UPS drivers drive big trucks and carry many different size packages. The audience may be a little confused now.

 

[Cherokee]

All this talk about compensation just let's the world know why I drive the smallest truck

I hear ya, If the wimin folk found us out there'd be hell ta pay.

 

[Pete Sheppard]

Then you see a lady climbing up the driver's side...

 

[Fabz60]

I think she holds her own

 

[AncientMan]

My 99 Ranger is a bit smaller than my 23 & 24 Mavericks (sorry for not posting pics).

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