Be Honest - have you ever driven with passengers in the rear seats?

[pc4mike]

The back seat is convenient for passengers, dog, and stuff. In the same way my sedan's back seat is. I also have a van with seven seats and most of the time there are only two of us, as well as our dog. My Jeep has a back seat and most of the time, it's just me and the dog. So, now ya know.

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[middleton_1]

Yes, from Madison, Wi to Colorado with adult daughter. From Madison to Des Moines with me in backseat. All around town with adult kids, sometimes 3 in back. No complaints.

 

[JohnCondren1933]

Yes but ONLY fleet sales.
2 seat cabs dont give a lot of room to move the seat back for tall drivers,

who doesnt care about 2 seat not being comfortable? Fleet managers, its not meant to be a luxury drive.

But Maverick is not the truck a Fleet Mgr look at when wanting an extended bed IMO. Unless they're hauling large animal-balloons, the extended bed capacity must come with extended weight capacity.

Its hard to come up with a scenario where a fleet manager wants larger footprint than a full sheet of plywood, but is fine with 1500 lbs max in the bed - and cannot use a trailer for gross 4000 lbs, which has a larger footprint than the bed.
Those guys IMO go for RAM 1500 or 2500 Tradesman narrowcab.

Lets talk engineering costs:

a body on frame truck is comparatively easy & cheap to offer an extended bed narrow cab vs unibody having to recertify crash & stamp out a crapload of unique structural steel plate stampings including engineering & building these $200k a piece stamping dies.

A narrow cab Maverick is worst of both worlds: a fraction of the market for a half-ton narrow cab extended bed Tradesman type truck, with startup costs approaching a new vehicle.

Noone who says they want one would actually buy it for price it would have to sell for to recoup engineering costs.

Two door p/u are in demand for commercial / fleet use. For sure.

 

[Richard D]

Once, only once. I removed the rear seat for tool storage soon after, just like my first Maverick.

 

[JohnCondren1933]

Great looking big dog backseat liner.
Throw it in covered bed, and back seats ready for passengers wearing tuxedos.

I have in the past but now the back seat mostly holds my lunch cooler or groceries.

Or my Bulladore

 

[d7602002]

If by passengers you mean people, then no. If my goldendoodle counts as a passenger, then yes. He rides back there all the time.

 

[Minilowz]

I would of loved to had a bench seat in the front, so I could have 6 people in it if needed. I have 4 to 5 in it almost every weekend. During the week, mostly my commuter vehicle, that why I went for the Hybrid, 45+mpg beats the 14-16mpg my Ram1500 was getting.

 

[JohnCondren1933]

Thinking out loud, Im pretty sure the reason no front bench seats is airbag frontal crash regs - automakers would be required to have an airbag behind the center console (noone i know of has figured out how to make a center console soft enough to blow out safely)

I would of loved to had a bench seat in the front, so I could have 6 people in it if needed. I have 4 to 5 in it almost every weekend. During the week, mostly my commuter vehicle, that why I went for the Hybrid, 45+mpg beats the 14-16mpg my Ram1500 was getting.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

Thinking out loud, Im pretty sure the reason no front bench seats is airbag frontal crash regs - automakers would be required to have an airbag behind the center console (noone i know of has figured out how to make a center console soft enough to blow out safely)

Interesting. But probably true.

 

[FordHybrid]

Yes, every time we have out of state guests, we take them for some sightseeing, and the comments have always been that the back seat is comfortable. We bought the truck to be our car and truck. I have taken 1300 pounds of driveway crushed rock with no problems several times. So, yes, we used the back seat as a car and the bed as a truck.

 

[samspritzer]

My three granddaughters love the backseat of "Poppy's truck". Every once in a while, my son will ask a favor to pick them up at school. Boy, are they ever so excited! They even fight over who gets the middle and who gets the ends.

 

[Connect]

At least once a week I have someone in my back seat and usually adults. Part of the reason I choose the Maverick over other 'mid size' trucks is because it was roomier back there than Tacoma, Frontier, Colorado, Canyon.... the current Ranger is a little roomier back there but I choose the Maverick since it was close and the Maverick had the hybrid.
The Ranger with a MPG focused hybrid would be really nice as well.

 

[AutobahnSHO]

Thinking out loud, Im pretty sure the reason no front bench seats is airbag frontal crash regs - automakers would be required to have an airbag behind the center console (noone i know of has figured out how to make a center console soft enough to blow out safely)

Crash testing now includes side crashes too. 3 Dummies' heads hitting each other probably indicates brain damage would result if 3 people get hit.

I think they only put 2 dummies in the back seat though

 

[Sticks]

I frequently have passengers. They always complement the "leather", and they're too polite to tell me how hard and upright the seat is.

I'll tolerate the back seat for a 20 minute ride, but it really is terrible.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

I frequently have passengers. They always complement the "leather", and they're too polite to tell me how hard and upright the seat is.

I'll tolerate the back seat for a 20 minute ride, but it really is terrible.

I agree, it's not comfortable. Slightly worse than the straight up drivers seat in a two-door single cab pickup truck.

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