Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 The Honda Ridgeline? North American TRUCK of the Year? Apparently, the 60 US and Canadian journalists who decided that don't know what a truck is or what trucks are supposed to be able to do... https://www.trucks.com/2017/01/09/honda-ridgeline-wins-north-american-truck-of-the-year/ 3 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickfarms Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Insane Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I would like to put my 24 ft goose neck stock trailer on a ridgeline............NOT! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 41chevy Posted January 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) well it does have a lockable compartment in the bed for your flip flops and purse, that doubles as a wading pool for "fluffy" the poodle . . . Edited January 10, 2017 by 41chevy 3 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tjc transport Posted January 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 they "pick" what they are paid to "pick" to be the POS of the year. 4 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DailyDiesel Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 It last won this award in 2006. Time is a flat circle. Quote www.dailydieseldose.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 10, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 Only thing I can think of is these journalists are nothing more than a bunch of millennial snowflakes that wouldn't know what to do if faced with actual WORK that required an actual TRUCK. Ever see that show "The Great Indoors"? Cracks me up watching it... On the news this Christmas season was a local story about some 20-something college know-it-alls bought a big screen TV at the store...then couldn't fit it into their econo-crapbox car. So, they had to call mommy 60 miles away to come rescue them with her pickup truck. Always amuses me watching people at the furniture store strapping a kitchen table & chairs to their roof, too. It's a shame we've regulated darwinism and the whole "survival of the fittest" thing into irrelevance by protecting the stupid. 5 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Just a week ago, I saw an Avalanche(you know, 4dr with little bed on the back that is covered), with a mattress strapped to the roof. Seems their "truck" wasn't much of a truck when you can't haul anything with it. I do have to comment. The "mini" truck has been around since, what? the 70's? The Datsun, Chevy Luv, ranger, S10. All great, but I agree, not what you would call "truck of the year". But I suppose it is all in WHO you ask. Kinda like the last election? 1 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DailyDiesel Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Maybe they based their decision on this one? Quote www.dailydieseldose.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 41chevy Posted January 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 3 hours ago, RowdyRebel said: Only thing I can think of is these journalists are nothing more than a bunch of millennial snowflakes that wouldn't know what to do if faced with actual WORK that required an actual TRUCK. Ever see that show "The Great Indoors"? Cracks me up watching it... On the news this Christmas season was a local story about some 20-something college know-it-alls bought a big screen TV at the store...then couldn't fit it into their econo-crapbox car. So, they had to call mommy 60 miles away to come rescue them with her pickup truck. Always amuses me watching people at the furniture store strapping a kitchen table & chairs to their roof, too. It's a shame we've regulated darwinism and the whole "survival of the fittest" thing into irrelevance by protecting the stupid. Easy solution, remove all the warning labels and let nature thin the herd. 4 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The word "Truck" is a misnomer when applied to that yuppiefied car with a bed! Ever notice that the media always uses the word Truck when there is an accident involving a pickup!? The growing anti truck sentiment in America guarantees that when the word truck is used (especially when the pickup is at fault) the readers or listeners will pay more attention to the broadcast! Some of you who run Kentucky will remember when that drunken asshole in the Toyota pickup caused the crash that burned all those kids to death in the school bus,The state put up a memorial sign calling it a "truck bus" crash The actual truckers of America protested until they changed the sign to read "pickup bus crash" good for them! 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 41 always amuses me to watch people period! But on the subject of protecting the stupid,how about the vehicles that apply the brakes when it "sees" a potential hazard and steers you back into your lane when you are too distracted,impaired,or incompetent to keep a car in its lane! And the "parking assist" feature (available on a new 12 second camaro) lol😁 Did you see the shirt the British mechanic wears on Wheeler Dealers? Says " don't argue with stupid"! Love it! The problem is these devices are govt mandated on new vehicles after a certain year,so you pay more to have them,and it's several more devices to go wrong! And they already are! I'd like a device that causes a phone to explode when you use it when driving or texting😁 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Freightrain,I believe the Avalanche was voted the ugliest vehicle of the millennium,so what can you expect! At some point hopefully after we are all gone infants will drop out of the womb clutching a smart phone! They already have them when they swim the Rio Grande! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hatcity Posted January 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2017 2 hours ago, BillyT said: 41 always amuses me to watch people period! But on the subject of protecting the stupid,how about the vehicles that apply the brakes when it "sees" a potential hazard and steers you back into your lane when you are too distracted,impaired,or incompetent to keep a car in its lane! And the "parking assist" feature (available on a new 12 second camaro) lol😁 Did you see the shirt the British mechanic wears on Wheeler Dealers? Says " don't argue with stupid"! Love it! The problem is these devices are govt mandated on new vehicles after a certain year,so you pay more to have them,and it's several more devices to go wrong! And they already are! I'd like a device that causes a phone to explode when you use it when driving or texting😁 never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience 3 Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogg rescue Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 4 hours ago, BillyT said: The word "Truck" is a misnomer when applied to that yuppiefied car with a bed! Ever notice that the media always uses the word Truck when there is an accident involving a pickup!? The growing anti truck sentiment in America guarantees that when the word truck is used (especially when the pickup is at fault) the readers or listeners will pay more attention to the broadcast! Some of you who run Kentucky will remember when that drunken asshole in the Toyota pickup caused the crash that burned all those kids to death in the school bus,The state put up a memorial sign calling it a "truck bus" crash The actual truckers of America protested until they changed the sign to read "pickup bus crash" good for them! It really pisses me off when people call pickups "trucks". I've got a brother in law that says this, every visit we have to argue about it. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Lol first I heard of this......(OH YA RITE) ahahahahahahaha....bobSent from my XT1096 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 11, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2017 Don't be bad-mouthing the mini-trucks! I guarantee my little '86 Ranger (4-banger/5-speed) has probably hauled more weight in the bed and towed bigger trailers than 75% of the folks running around in their mall-crawler jacked up 3/4 and 1-ton diesel pickups with the stacks in the bed and the nuts hanging from the seldom (if ever) used trailer hitch. Body on frame construction with and actual bed. Hell, BOTH my Rangers (have an '86 and a '92) have bigger beds (7') than most of the new "full size" trucks sold these days that sacrifice bed space for interior cab space without stretching the wheel base out. Hell, the mega-cab dodge only has what, a 4' bed? That isn't a full-size truck. That's an upsized Explorer Sport Track. At least Ford got that much right...kept the Explorer badge on that useless little quad-cab "truck" instead of calling it a Ranger. A full-size pickup should have an 8' bed. If not, it isn't "full size". If you need a bigger cab, the wheelbase and overall length needs to be bigger to keep the 8' bed...otherwise, you don't have a "full size" pickup. Short beds on pickup trucks just look silly and are useless. Of course my buddy with the body shop LOVES the short-bed 3/4 and 1-ton truck trend...people that TRY to use them like a real truck and pull a gooseneck or 5th wheel tend to blow out the rear window if they have even a momentary brain fart maneuvering around corners and such when the trailer gets into the back of the cab. Oops. Hope that wasn't one of those fancy power sliding windows, 'cuz they are extra pricey. 3 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 2 hours ago, RowdyRebel said: Don't be bad-mouthing the mini-trucks! I guarantee my little '86 Ranger (4-banger/5-speed) has probably hauled more weight in the bed and towed bigger trailers than 75% of the folks running around in their mall-crawler jacked up 3/4 and 1-ton diesel pickups with the stacks in the bed and the nuts hanging from the seldom (if ever) used trailer hitch. Body on frame construction with and actual bed. Hell, BOTH my Rangers (have an '86 and a '92) have bigger beds (7') than most of the new "full size" trucks sold these days that sacrifice bed space for interior cab space without stretching the wheel base out. Hell, the mega-cab dodge only has what, a 4' bed? That isn't a full-size truck. That's an upsized Explorer Sport Track. At least Ford got that much right...kept the Explorer badge on that useless little quad-cab "truck" instead of calling it a Ranger. A full-size pickup should have an 8' bed. If not, it isn't "full size". If you need a bigger cab, the wheelbase and overall length needs to be bigger to keep the 8' bed...otherwise, you don't have a "full size" pickup. Short beds on pickup trucks just look silly and are useless. Of course my buddy with the body shop LOVES the short-bed 3/4 and 1-ton truck trend...people that TRY to use them like a real truck and pull a gooseneck or 5th wheel tend to blow out the rear window if they have even a momentary brain fart maneuvering around corners and such when the trailer gets into the back of the cab. Oops. Hope that wasn't one of those fancy power sliding windows, 'cuz they are extra pricey. There are mini trucks and a glorified car with a small cargo "bed". The Ranger, Dakota, Comanche and such are / were real trucks. even the Rabbit Pick up could carry a good load ,not like these posers. 1 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TeamsterGrrrl Posted January 11, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2017 When the cab is longer than the pickup bed, it ain't a truck! 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Honda ridgeline and even tho I'm a diehard gm guy, the avalanche are possibly the ugliest and least useable vehicles I have ever seen Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 11, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2017 Nah...my vote for ugliest and most useless would have to go to the Aztek. 5 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 unless you can put a full 4X8 sheet of plywood or sheet rock in the bed without breaking it, i consider it a car. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 With the tool box in the bed of my F250's 8 foot bed, my '92 Ranger has just as much cubic feet of space in the bed...a little longer, but a little narrower...but still enough to haul an assembled kitchen table and 6 chairs. No tailgate on it, so a 4x8 sheet of anything just tips sideways and lays over one bedside. The F250 also has the gooseneck ball in the bed that prevents anything from being layed flat in the bed. Got to put the nose against the box and the tail up over the tailgate. My '86 Ranger has a 5.5' wide by 7.5' long wood flatbed on it...so it's the only thing I've got that a 4x8 sheet of plywood or sheet rock would lay flat in/on...so I guess by your standards, it's the only real truck I've got. F250 still gets the job done, though... Problem with the short beds is once you put the tool box in, you've lost yet ANOTHER 2' of bed space... Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-357994 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamsterGrrrl Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I'm not sure about the 1st generation Ranger, but on the 2nd generation there are "pockets" in the side of the bed where you can place a 2 by 6 crosswise and carry 4 by 8 sheets above the wheel wells with the tailgate down. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-358008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 yup. build a little platform to go over the 5th wheel ball and plywood fits in there just fine. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/48302-wtf/#findComment-358009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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