If Mitsubishi's concept "pickup of the future" becomes the norm, apparently pickup trucks of the future will no longer have a bed.
Or, perhaps more accurately, apparently nobody at Mitsubishi remembers the definition of a pickup. The rest makes sense--turbodiesel for towing and efficiency, hybrid could give you simple four wheel drive and power for your tools at the worksite without lugging around your extension cords, and unibody construction increases strength while reducing weight. But please, please, please--don't pretend you can have a pickup without a box. It just ain't right.
One week later
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As things were happening last week, I wrote a post below that is likely
wrong. We know more now. Two things have become clear this week:
1) The local ap...
18 hours ago
2 comments:
the subaru brat was about the smallest pick up feasible. it had its uses, but still eventually faded.
That just makes no sense whatsoever. A pickup without a bed is calling a table a chair, or a spoon a fork. ISTM that a bed is not only necessary to a pickup, it's actually the ONLY sine qua non (within the universe of powered vehicles.)
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