Great video

['91 ranger xlt]

Now I know what to be on the lookout for, and it ain't an SUV.
I spent 4 years in the military defending freedom. I'm not afraid to do some more defending.

also this sounds a bit like a threat, showed a friend and they think so too.

 

[scotts90ranger]

My 45 minute drive to work with the available public transit would be like 10 miles to the nearest stop (on country roads without shoulders so even biking is a bad idea...), then who knows how many stops (haven't looked, at least 5) to get the next like 18 miles to get within 2 miles of work. It could take a bus change or farther from one end to the other too, I know I follow busses home but don't know which ones stop where. I'm already away from home almost 12 hours a day, don't need to add a couple more... I've never seen more than a handful of people on the busses...

My vehicles cost around $130 every 2 years to register I think, $900 every 6 months for insurance (liability and state limits plus some only, I only drive old stuff not worth much, this is for 6 vehicles and two drivers...) and fuel which at recent prices is likely around $5k plus whatever the wife does, plus whatever maintenance is which isn't much as I do everything but tires myself (depends on that one too, I mounted the tires on the '97 Ranger, but for $60 for a full set of tires at an auction I wasn't going to argue...).

Of course my choices aren't for everyone, I could live without one of the Explorers but meh...

Freedom isn't being told what you should do, if there were reasonable options I'd be for them but there aren't any (there's some that work for some, but none that work for all, and those that work for some are nearing being forced on all), nothing against cities except they seem to breed some of the worst people around and think everyone should live like them, I like my life in the country but have to get toward the city for work to afford to live... in 14 years my house should be paid off so hopefully stressors will be less and less travel and more fun, unless everything fun has been outlawed by then...

I'd bet money that that response was not meant as a personal threat, just that they would rather defend their view of freedom against people trying to stop them from having their freedom...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Nice first gen at 2:06!

In the 1960's who made a truck US automakers genuinely feared? Especially in Europe? Land Rover was pretty busy supplying the rest of the world with trucks not sure they had the ambition or resources to take on the US market with any seriousness. The only real import in the 60's doing well enough to mildly scare US automakers was VW.

G Wagon at 4:13!

4:31 The first SUV's were body on frame like a pickup truck and like many cars were of the time.

5:27 The earliest SUV if you want to play that card were WWII surplus or CJ's. Jeep also marketed them as a farm tractor. The first I would consider a SUV, the IH Scout followed quickly by the Bronco and Blazer were like 20 years later.

5:50 Station wagons are for boomers... interesting. When I was a kid in the 90's the station wagon was on the way out, minivans and SUV's were on the way in. Driven by baby boomers.

7:05 The Sherman was a rather small tank in WWII... but there were many tanks smaller yet. Stewert etc.

7:59 Note the farmer curling the cow's tail to coax it into the truck, that is really a thing to coax them lol.

8:06 Big bad scary 1970's Range Rover with no door (not even marketed as removable like a Jeep) crumples up (but yet is too stiff) compared to a brand new car (with doors attached)

8:42 Flipside, keeps deer out of the windshield. The one live deer I hit (at highway speed) was thrown off to the side. No go under. However while meeting a car in my wife's Edge we did hit a deer that had just been hit and was laying in the road. Thanks to its ground clearance while meeting another car we straddled it while maintaining perfect control and sustained no damage. Non issue for a suburbanite I am sure.

9:35 Partially correct. Not for reasons he wants to admit. Trucks and SUV's have blunt front ends with increasingly flat hoods. Makes for miserable forward visibility. I could see off the bow much better in my '02 F-150 than my '16 and my even my Ranger has more hood taper than my wife's '22 Bronco. Easy fix but it doesn't fit with today's styling fad. I almost think the newer Ram hoods slope uphill from the cowl.

10:15 4wd isn't just fine in a rural setting, it can be downright required. Thank ya very much.

12:11 When automakers wanting to make SUV's mainstream they found their target audience was more likely to text and drive? Not sure texting was a thing with a bagphone in 1992 there doofus.

13:15 Marginalizing the opposition. In vast stretches of this country they are used off pavement every day. Most SUV's I see in town are covered in gravel dust because they live in the country. Just because this little dweeb doesn't leave the city doesn't mean "everybody else" lives in the city too.

13:31 I don't personally know a single soul that drives a Subaru. I cringe when they come into work because it is a 50/50 chance somebody in town will stock an oil filter for the POS.

14:10 Marginalizing the opposition again, niche rural vehicles.

14:56 G-Wagon and Land Cruiser are the dumbest SUV ever in the US. They take military grade vehicles, that are overbuilt and ride less than ideal... and fill them full of crap so rich people will overspend on them. They guys that actually want them for their bones can't afford them and don't care about the fancy crap and the rich people don't like them because they ride/handle bad. Its like the worst of both worlds for both parties involved.

15:10 The G- Wagon was designed for the Austrian military. Later they kinda competed with Rover in undeveloped areas in like Africa and Austrailia before being dumbed down and imported to the US. Nato even adopted them. They are function over form, big windows, nice hood taper should offer good visibility like he was crying about earlier. I would love to have a LHD Nato spec. My kid actually has a AMG Power Wheels G-Wagon.

16:10 My Ranger barely fits in my garage lol. Back it in until the spare tire lightly squishes the face shield on the back wall and I can walk around the front of the truck with the door closed.

17:05 Other cars are decreasing emissions? How? IMO we are blaming the SUV become more popular for causing increasing emissions when in fact they are simply replacing cars that really were not much if any cleaner. For ever Expedition sold there are 10 Escapes... because cost.

17:50 Again, most are not really that much bigger/heavier. Most SUV's on the street are crossovers based off of cars.

I'm hanging it up for tonight, I might try to finish it but it is hard to take this doofus seriously.

 

[bilbo]

Lol wat?


I probably wear a tin foil hat that's thicker than most... but the idea that we've been brainwashed by 'big-auto' is one of the most laughable ideas I've ever heard.



The costs of owning a vehicle aren't a burden...



Needing to walk through a blizzard on your way to the closest bus stop (which is a half mile away) is a burden.

Always getting asked by drug addicts for change or cigarettes while you wait for the bus
..in the blizzard.. is a burden.

Seeing people using drugs in the back of the bus.. while your sitting behind someone who's coughing sounds like they don't have long to live.. and neither will you if you catch what they have.. is a burden.

The half mile walk from the bus stop to the grocery store.. in the blizzard.. isn't quite as bad as the walk BACK to the bus with bags full of groceries.. but its still a burden.

Literally everything about public transport is a disgusting burden. I've been there, I've done that.


Netherlands boy can get bent

Freedom

I absolutely despise driving in large cities and will put up with a lot of discomfort to avoid it. This nicely sums up my experiences with public transit. We visited St. Louis a few years back for a family wedding. We stayed downtown and I told my wife I wasn't moving the pickup again until I left, so we took buses and trains around. It was ok for the most part as an adult, but explaining things to my kids was awkward at times. Some of the language used was interesting, and also we were offered drugs at one of the stops. Fun for all ages. Coming up with impromptu explanations for all of that to our apparently sheltered pre-teen son was great.

My wife and I went to MSP once for her birthday and decided to park in a small suburb and use the commuter rail to get to the city proper. The commuter rail was great, and we were thinking about how fun it would be to take our then 8 year old to the science museum and ride the trains. Then when we got on the light rail, we were again offered drugs, we were asked for cigarettes, and the whole car got to experience a very heated conversation between a guy and what I'd assume is the mother of his child. When we got off the train we both decided to veto the public transit science museum trip and drive instead.

They had these ATM type machines to buy the tickets, and we noticed we were the only ones using them. When we got back home we found out they apparently adopted a policy to not check for tickets or throw people off the train for riding without one, so as clueless tourists we were probably the only ones buying them.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

This is the US.

Ill drive whatever the hell i damn well please.

If i want to fire up my 10mpg 5500lb 460 powered 3/4 ton to drive on a 1000 mi roadtrip just because i want to...whos gonna stop me?

Not this guy.

 

[JoshT]

has anybody tried the "ignore" option lately?

I'm about ready to.

This fool was asking to have his account deleted a few weeks ago because he didn't use it. I guess he's upset that he didn't get what he wanted, so decided to start trolling instead.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I didn't watch the whole video but I will ad this thought....

Last summer I went to Italy for a week. The biggest truck I saw over there was a Ford Ranger. You don't see big trucks and SUV's. You see a lot of small cars and motorcycles. You also don't see big cities like you see here in the states. Yes I went to Rome, but it's not crazy tall buildings and busy freeways like it is here. I couldn't even imagine driving any of the fullsize SUV's and trucks that I've owned in the past over there.

We didn't rent a vehicle while we were there. We either walked, rented a scooter, or took a train.

I really enjoyed it. When I came back to the US I missed the slower pace and less congestion of Italy.

With that said, I don't have anything against the big vehicles here. Our roads can handle them here and I feel safer in them. But I wouldn't necessarily miss them if I lived overseas.

 

[Curious Hound]

That whole point about cars killing people is just as stupid as saying guns kill people. Cars don't kill people. PEOPLE kill people. People who are inattentive to their driving kill people. People with poor driving skills kill people. People who don't maintain their vehicles to decent safety standards kill people. People who drive impaired kill people. I've had a decent number of cars and trucks over the years and none of them ever killed anyone. Stop misdirecting the focus.

 

[Blmpkn]

This is where 15 minute cities shine. The whole point is for EVERYTHING to be within a 15 minute walk. I don't live in a 15 minute city. I live in a small town of 3,000 people. Just the same:

• The grocery store is two blocks away. I can get every food item I need.
  • They deliver, $2.00 for delivery.
• The post office is four blocks away.
  • If a package is too big to carry home, I have a wagon
• Home Hardware is also two blocks away. From there I can buy almost anything I need for my house, including water softener salt.
  • Again, if something is too big to carry home, I take the wagon.
• I can also walk to
  • restaurants
  • a small department store
  • a dollar store
  • the town office
  • the newspaper
  • A gas station (gas for the snowblower and lawn mower
  • our local library
  • An electronics store
  • DMV office (although we don't call it the DMV here)
  • Insurance broker
  • Bank
  • My landlord's business office
  • Churches
  • Drugstores (two of them)
  • Government representative's offices
• Anything I can't buy in town I can buy on Amazon, or there's usually somebody going to the city that can pick something up for me.

I haven't driven my car in two years. I haven't needed to. What I have in my town is what a 15 minute city is like, except that the 15 minute city is divided into districts. Conspiracy theorists claim that you're not allowed to leave your district, but I highly doubt that's the case.

I'll kneel for execution before I move to such a shithole.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I didn't watch the whole video but I will ad this thought....

Last summer I went to Italy for a week. The biggest truck I saw over there was a Ford Ranger. You don't see big trucks and SUV's. You see a lot of small cars and motorcycles. You also don't see big cities like you see here in the states. Yes I went to Rome, but it's not crazy tall buildings and busy freeways like it is here. I couldn't even imagine driving any of the fullsize SUV's and trucks that I've owned in the past over there.

We didn't rent a vehicle while we were there. We either walked, rented a scooter, or took a train.

I really enjoyed it. When I came back to the US I missed the slower pace and less congestion of Italy.

With that said, I don't have anything against the big vehicles here. Our roads can handle them here and I feel safer in them. But I wouldn't necessarily miss them if I lived overseas.

If I'm moving overseas I'm going somewhere I can get a '79.

 

[sgtsandman]

big auto propaganda:

We would have been much better off to build national highspeed rail rather than the interstate highway system.

The interstate highway system was built for national defense. The fact that the public is able to use it is a side benefit.

This was a major push by President Eisenhower from his experience in the military. Before the Interstate system, it took a month to drive across the country for a military operation on the west coast.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I'm about ready to.

This fool was asking to have his account deleted a few weeks ago because he didn't use it. I guess he's upset that he didn't get what he wanted, so decided to start trolling instead.

I'm a little late to the party here... but I was in the process of digging into where I'd seen the OP's screen name before. You're right... a few short days ago they were asking to be deleted from the forum. Now it appears they want to use the site to pedal Ranger parts and troll the membership.

@'91 ranger xlt do you have another purpose here on TRS other then posting your activist point of view and trying to create collateral damage within our friendly Ford Ranger forum?

The first part of this quote is what @pjtoledo said and the second is your reply and basically proves my point that you're simply up to no good and your purpose is to cause trouble here.

Now I know what to be on the lookout for, and it ain't an SUV.
I spent 4 years in the military defending freedom. I'm not afraid to do some more defending.

also this sounds a bit like a threat, showed a friend and they think so too.

So... I don't see much reason to leave this thread open to any further replies. We aren't here to provide you a place to grandstand your radical view point that simply doesn't work for the majority.

So if you have a legit question on your Ranger... post it. If you care to offer help to other members... share it. But if your only purpose here is to push an agenda... spare us and move along.

If any of the mods or @Jim Oaks thinks I closed this post and shouldn't have... open it back up if you wish. But no good will come from it.