Top 5 Features Trucks Need to Bring Back

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Five features truck need to bring back to stop being lifestyle markers and make them relevant workhorses again. Trucks have spent the last two decades getting bigger, softer, and more impressed with themselves. In the process, they forgot what made them useful in the first place. Modern trucks have more tech, more screens, and more excuses than ever. What they have less of is honesty. These are five things trucks need to bring back if they want to be tools again, not props. Robust metal bumpers Bring back metal bumpers. Real ones. Steel. The kind that can endure a parking-lot love tap […] (read full article...)
 
I am buying stock in the fainting couch and smelling salts industry for when the Slate truck is released, I will make millions,
Oh it doesn't have power windows, faint
Oh it doessnt have a giant TV screen, faint
Oh it doesnt have four doors, faint
Oh it doesnt have an ego stroker, faint
Oh it doesnt have apple car play, faint

It would be truly epic if Slate has a fainting couch at the release for all of auto journalists.
 
Which is it lol?

"Let’s put the turbos on the shelf. Naturally aspirated engines may not win spec-sheet drag races, but they win where it actually matters: longevity, sanity, and the quiet confidence of a motor that isn’t perpetually operating on the brink of thermodynamic collapse. Less plumbing, fewer heat-soaked components, and engines that will still be pulling cleanly at 250,000 miles. This is not nostalgia, it’s simple mechanical adulthood, and proven over decades."
 
Hilux said:
I am buying stock in the fainting couch and smelling salts industry for when the Slate truck is released, I will make millions,
Oh it doesn't have power windows, faint
Oh it doessnt have a giant TV screen, faint
Oh it doesnt have four doors, faint
Oh it doesnt have an ego stroker, faint
Oh it doesnt have apple car play, faint

It would be truly epic if Slate has a fainting couch at the release for all of auto journalists.
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Honestly, I know many auto journalists who are excited for Slate. There is actually a big divide between the tech people and the people who are simply over it.
 
Fightnfire said:
Which is it lol?

"Let’s put the turbos on the shelf. Naturally aspirated engines may not win spec-sheet drag races, but they win where it actually matters: longevity, sanity, and the quiet confidence of a motor that isn’t perpetually operating on the brink of thermodynamic collapse. Less plumbing, fewer heat-soaked components, and engines that will still be pulling cleanly at 250,000 miles. This is not nostalgia, it’s simple mechanical adulthood, and proven over decades."
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He is saying he wants naturally aspirated engines, right?

You know, I have read this several times and I have to say, I just love his writing style.
 
You would think if simplicity were so desired, then no one would be buying anything above the basic truck models but that doesn't appear to be the case. Entry level is far from the most popular.
 
Fleet sales mean nothing to individual buyers. If anything, that's probably the only reason why an individual can still buy a base vehicle.
 
Dusdaddy said:
Fleet sales mean nothing to individual buyers. If anything, that's probably the only reason why an individual can still buy a base vehicle.
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Automakers care about fleet customers and luxury buyers. The mid tier customer like the Lariat is the one getting screwed IMO. Paying more for less.
 
- more front bench seating options on higher trims. A 60K truck should be able to carry six people
- mechanical E-Break
- Leaf springs
- metal bumpers that actually protect the front grill and tail gate
- manual transmission. Toyota has this one right.
 
Paddington2026 said:
- more front bench seating options on higher trims. A 60K truck should be able to carry six people
- mechanical E-Break
- Leaf springs
- metal bumpers that actually protect the front grill and tail gate
- manual transmission. Toyota has this one right.
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Funny thing about bumpers. I bought a brand-new Jeep Comanche off the lot. It actually had a 2x4 bolted to the back because it did not come with a bumper. Bumpers back then, like radios, were optional.....lol
 
Paddington2026 said:
- manual transmission. Toyota has this one right.
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I've asked automakers about manual transmissions. They tell me the market is so small, it just doesn't make sense.

Toyota sells their manual Tacoma primarily in the northeast, or so they told me, and I think the engineers got together to save it. I figure if Toyota execs had their way, they would kill it.
 
Link550 said:
Buttons. That's the one think on my 2023 ram I don't like is the giant screen. Manual transmissions would be awesome but id settle for buttons.
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Yep. The more the better. I do think chevy does pretty good about providing physical buttons for all the things needed to actually operate the truck (headlights, E-Brake, 4WD systems, climate controls, etc). Once I got all the non-essential settings to where I liked them, I have barely gone into the infotainment screen. But one more thing I want is manual tailgates (or at least a way to manually open a tailgate of there is no power).
 
Paddington2026 said:
Yep. The more the better. I do think chevy does pretty good about providing physical buttons for all the things needed to actually operate the truck (headlights, E-Brake, 4WD systems, climate controls, etc). Once I got all the non-essential settings to where I liked them, I have barely gone into the infotainment screen. But one more thing I want is manual tailgates (or at least a way to manually open a tailgate of there is no power).
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You haven't heard that the Colorado and Canyon don't have headlight switches?
 
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