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I just dislike most of the modern safety/economy features. My last car was a 2017 and my Maverick is a 2026. They added so many annoying things in the years in-between. I've gotten used to just turning of the auto start/stop, that's no big deal. But I HATE how the truck slams on my brakes...

I needed to remove the dry wall ceiling in my garage and thought about a Bagster as a cheaper alternative to renting a dumpster for the refuse. The bags are cheap, $30?, but the haul away fee scared me off - it was estimated at $235. Still MUCH less than a dumpster but I realized, i didn't...

I want to do something like that to mine. The hood angle makes all the street lights bounce right into my eyes, I want to have a matte black wrap or something put on the hood but the one place I inquired at quoted $500 just to wrap the hood. Maybe once the new has worn off I'll just hit it with...

For example, my 1999 1/2 New Jetta had a mechanical "soft-opening" glove box with pistons and stuff. In the time I had that car it broke three times. That car was cool as heck but it spent a LOT of time in the shop.

I think I got lucky, so far no tire pressure warnings. Luckily, that's not something I have to do often or maybe ever again.

I'm just saying, from experience, if VW makes a compact pick-up it won't be a Maverick competitor; it'll be a different class of vehicle.

I hauled 860lbs of boxed up drywall from a home improvement project I'm doing to the dump (weighed at the dump). Truck is filthy, I just hope I don't end up with a flat tire from driving around that place.

Spent two weeks in June driving around Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, etc. sleeping in the bed.

For reasons I pulled down the drywall ceiling of my garage. 780lbs of water-damaged dry wall, boxed up, and taken to the dump.

As the previous owner of five VWs (New Jetta, New Beetle, Golf, Golf, GTI) I can say with certainty it will be unnecessarily complicated and very expensive to repair.

It's like this one but I didn't get it on this site and I didn't pay this much. So far it has worked flawlessly and has been skip resistant...

CD player tray V2.0. This one goes in one of the cup holders and holds the player at an angle. Still working on the bottom part and using a coffee cup for the moment. Laughing at myself at this point since I can probably just buy something that works like this, but I like tinkering. I'm...

Some people say it isn't a truck but I sure as h3ll couldn't have done this with my GTI.

I know some people disagree but it looks like a truck to me.

Washington and Oregon are the only states I have not visited. This road trip was about visiting specific museums in Colorado and Wyoming but the return trip was crafted to hit ID, MT, and ND and bring my tally up to 48. Someday I'll get out there.

RokBlokz and glad I did. I think they're really paying for themselves. Installation has a "system" but once you learn it on the first one the rest are quick and easy.

Only on the second to last day, when I drove 12-13 hours and piled on miles, did my back start to hurt. But it's subjective; I like hard seats but other people may not.

Yes, that's Garden of the Gods. One purpose of the trip was to visit the National Museum of WWII Aviation in Colorado Springs so we were there and that is an easy side quest. I slept in the bed about 1/2 the trip. The Softopper is good but has a couple of flaws. I give it an 8.5/10. It...

In my defense, I really have no dog in this fight. I chose the Ecoboost because I just got out of a bad relationship with a complicated, expensive, sporty car and just wanted the simplest thing I could find. I really don't give a hoot about the mileage since it's not bad and the Maverick takes...

Dump of more esoteric photos from the trip: