Will trucks ever become awesome again?

[u/cakeba]

I bought my first truck recently, a 2017 F-150 SCSB with the 5.0 and the 6 speed. 4x4. It has NOTHING. Manual windows, manual locks, I consider the A/C system to be the most luxurious aspect of the vehicle. I love it to death.

Is that era totally over and have I scored the last of its kind? Will we ever see boxy, simple, spacious trucks again? The free market is supposed to dictate what gets produced but between government regulations and what people are buying, it seems like every new truck is just amber running lights, plastic everything, complicated and expensive tech...

I feel a little bit hopeless about what the future holds for pickups, but I also think that if they made a real pickup for the pickup crowd, like literally brought back bricknoses and square bodies with nothing more than a modern power train (not too modern; a naturally aspirated V8 will do just fine) and modern suspension, they'd be knockouts with trades companies, simple people like myself, broke blue collar guys... How do we get them to put 4 wheel drive under metal boxes again without ipads for climate controls?

[u/762_54r]

Gonna be real with you chief I want power windows

[u/cakeba → u/762_54r]

Ok when I'm Ford's chief design officer, I'll make a model with power windows, power locks, AND power mirrors just for you.

[u/PyroZach → u/cakeba]

Can we go back to having options? Like stand alone, tick one thing at a time options. Not where I have to step up to a mid trim that includes 30 features I can live with out just to get a limited slip rear. Or how I can't get a extended cab with heated seats at all, not only that but I have to go up to a high end trim in the crew cab to get them now.

[u/Drzhivago138 → u/PyroZach]

They took a lot of a la carte options away recently because not enough people were buying them to justify the expense of keeping them.