Best car that pretends to be a truck

[Slobodan]

You tell me bud, you posted them!

 

[jefferz]

brat with rear facing bed seats

The Brat had seats in the back to get around the Chicken Tax. The Chicken Tax was implemented in 1964 to counter Germany and France putting a 25% tax on US chicken. The US countered by putting a 25% import tax on small pickups. The seats in the back allowed VW to classify the Brat as a car, getting around the tax until the loophole was closed.
Chevy got around the Chicken tax with the Luv by shipping it over without a bed, and adding it when they hit US soil.

I'm partial to the VW caddy.

Smyth makes kits to make your own modern VW UTE.

None of those are trucks and I hate when people call their SUV a truck. No, your Tahoe is not a truck.

Your F150 isn't a truck, it's a pickup.

 

[Prutfis]

None of those are trucks and I hate when people call their SUV a truck. No, your Tahoe is not a truck.

Unless you drive one of these yours is not a truck either broski

 

[jefferz]

Holden

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And yes they're Ute's

Pontiac was going to bring the Commodore UTE to the US in 2010, but the brand was discontinued in 2008. *sigh*

HSV Maloo R8 LSA. 6.2L supercharged LSA putting out 536 horsepower and 495 lb-ft of torque.

 

[scgst4]

The Brat had seats in the back to get around the Chicken Tax. The Chicken Tax was implemented in 1964 to counter Germany and France putting a 25% tax on US chicken. The US countered by putting a 25% import tax on small pickups. The seats in the back allowed VW to classify the Brat as a car, getting around the tax until the loophole was closed.

Had no clue -thanks for the background info. I do remember going down a state road at high speed sitting in the bed seats gripping the joystick like side handles for dear life-can't remember if there were seatbelts

 

[Pliny Pete]

Spent many days riding in the back of my dad's El Camino as a kid, I'm talking long ass family road trips, me and my sister, a couple 8 and 10 year olds riding unsecured in the back, freezing out asses off as we flew down the freeway without a care in the world
It sounds so crazy to even say that now days, no freaking way would kids today be able to handle that kinda pressure lol

 

[chardog]

Lol

<Lmaoo>

 

[misterfurious]

Spent many days riding in the back of my dad's El Camino as a kid, I'm talking long ass family road trips, me and my sister, a couple 8 and 10 year olds riding unsecured in the back, freezing out asses off as we flew down the freeway without a care in the world
It sounds so crazy to even say that now days, no freaking way would kids today be able to handle that kinda pressure lol

Yep, grew up bouncing around in the bed of dad’s pickup down dirt roads; back then a crew cab was a freakish oddity. If we were lucky, there was a hay bale to sit on.

 

[boingyman]

 

[j123]

I'll raise you opposite: 4Runner

Shit pretends to be an SUV but is really a truck

Or escalade that pretends to be a limo but is a suv/truck

 

[SoSo]

Daihatsu midget.

In high school, there was a teacher that drove one of these or something really similar. For shits and giggles a bunch of us picked it up from where it was parked in the teachers lot and turned it 90 degrees and moved into the bushes on an adjacent parking island. It was surprisingly very light. I wasnt in his class but a couple of the guys who were there asked Mr Grubb about his parking job the next day and apparently he said something about needing new glasses. He was a pretty good dude. We were a pack of asshole wild animals.

 

[djacobox372]

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

Our friends from down under love their utes

 

[terrapin]

I had a buddy that bought an Subaru brat and we all made fun of him. Then he took us off-roading in that thing and it was awesome. Very capable and fun vehicle in the dirt.

Yes I have a Subaru Forester with a 2-inch lift kit and skid plates and it's actually quite capable although it doesn't match this thread because it doesn't have a flatbed. But for all but the roughest terrain it seems better than trucks and I certainly do better in the mud than trucks as long as it's not super deep mud because its is very underpowered and so can be a real pain in the butt that way.