DakotaGuy
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- First Name
- Tom
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2019
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- Location
- Black Hills, SD
- Vehicle(s)
- 2022 Ranger SuperCrew XLT Tremor
I can appreciate this even though I live in a vastly different place. I live in a mountain town in the Black Hills of South Dakota and although I like my F150 it is a total pain in the rear end day to day. The streets are narrow enough in the residential neighborhoods that if there are cars parked on side of the streets you have to wait your turn to go past. Parking is tight everywhere and even being able to back into my driveway takes 3-4 forward-reverse movements when someone parks directly across from it on the street. I like my F150, but curse it daily getting around here.If I lived in a suburb or rural area and shopped at strip malls or big box stores or other places with actual parking lots I would consider a 1/2 ton. Where I live in DC the 1/2 tons are just too wide. Here it's parking garages and parallel parking and small shopping centers with tight rows. Owning a full size truck would be a hassle in some way shape or form every single time I took it out. The Midsize trucks still provide the ability to tow, haul and off-road along with some performance in snow. Where I live a Midsize makes sense and I am happy to pay more for a well appointed one that doesn't annoy me every time I get groceries or go out to eat. I'm square within the target market for a midsize.
The most popular vehicles up here are pretty much small and midsize SUVs and CUVs, Subarus, Jeeps, and plenty of Tacomas and Colorados. Sure there are also plenty of full size pickups and some full size SUVs, but not nearly what you find down off the mountain.
So for me the trimmer size of the Ranger is going to be great! I can't wait to have that size of pickup living up here. Sure there are a lot of incentives on the F150 (if you can qualify for all of them), but if you compare a Ranger XLT or Lariat with the same cab style and same options there is a fairly significant difference in MSRP compared to an F150. The Ranger will eventually get some incentives as well, but it's rare for a new model to have many of them. Once they sell to everyone that "has to have" one if sales soften a bit there will be some cash on the hood.
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