Are unibody trucks acceptable for shtf?

Yes

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They have their uses

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>tfw hauled about 2 tons of hardwood for a family member who is moving in my '98 F150
>regularly get shithead drivers out of ditches in winter months when snow hits since my job is seasonal
"mulch"

Well they do great in car wrecks. My father wrecked his tbird doing 70 and hit five trees down a 30 foot drop and walked away from it. If SHTF I'd just be happy to be driving.

Sure - for the six hours or so until all the gas stations run dry and it turns into a paperweight.

Never get a hybrid anything, maintenance is a bitch.

exactly

Why don't Americans just buy a trailer + a vehicle with a decent tow rating?
>cheaper
>no registration
>no insurance
>easier to load
>impress your friends with your trailer reversing skills

Plus you can drive a car that can park anywhere, get good mpg, carry more passengers comfortably, and just keep the trailer in the back yard until you need it.

If you live in rural america parking is never an issue.

MUH TRUK
BUILD FERD TUFF
MUH TRUK

I MAY NOT HAVE MY GED BUT AT LEAST I GOT THE BIBLE

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Pickup truck faggots are consistently the worst drivers on the road, absolute cancer.

>>tfw hauled about 2 tons of hardwood for a family member who is moving in my '98 F150

I did this thing this one time, I need it forevers!

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A really fucking good one.

Kelpies are best doggo

Are you threatened by the superior truck?

As opposed to F150's, which folded like a piece of cardboard until 5 years ago.

This thread is just poorfag salt.

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make sure you get the flex fuel package, to include LPG prep. Don't be a goober.

spotted the semite.

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>+ a vehicle with a decent tow rating
Because for anything more than 1000 pounds towing which is barely enough for a small camper or utility trailer, your choices are a full size SUV or a pickup. Tow ratings work way differently in the US and I don't think there's a single sedan on the market right now with actual tow packages from the factory. Fuck, most of them aren't even rated for towing. We also travel a lot further for such things. Most Europoors think 50 miles is a long trip, where we consider upwards of 200 miles to be a day trip. Towing something 50 miles at 45 MPH is a lot different than towing it 200 miles at 65-70 MPH.

>e structural integrity is compromised from a light tap
The fuck?
True of any car.

>Most Europoors think 50 miles is a long trip
Nigger no.
>at 65-70 MPH.
Nigger do you think 70 MPH is a lot?

70mph up grades and down them with 5000lbs or more behind you is pretty serious.

Anything other than GMC/Chevy or Ford is just nigger tier.

Actually since Ford went full retard with overly complicated, tiny, turbo engines, just go with GM.

>Nigger do you think 70 MPH is a lot?
Weld half a sedan to the one you drive already without upgrading the brakes or engine and tell me how fun driving at 70MPH is in hilly terrain.

You're a hardo

How fucking hyped are you guys for the new Mazda/Toyota partnership?

>the crumple zones of my vehicle crumpled
As it was designed to do.

>Tow ratings work way differently in the US
This is true. Because the European method of setting up a tow hitch, while it allows for more towing capacity, compromises the safety of the vehicle.

Hype city, anything toyota has its hands in gets me chubbed up.

How does it differ?

It's the location that the hitch is mounted. IIRC, in Europe, it replaces the bumper reinforcement bar.

4runner starts at 34k

Ya my f250 power stroke feels real threatened by that fucking abomination

>shtf
>having fuel
>having roads or any kind of passable terrain over long distances
>having any kind of electronics after the massive EMP burst from solar flare or nukes

SHTFags are delusional

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This.

/nk/ when?

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>>having any kind of electronics after the massive EMP burst from solar flare or nukes
Friendly reminder that EMPs don't short out every single fucking bit of electronics.

noooo, THIS SHTFag is delusional. Most of us who consider ourselves preppers accept that walking will be our primary method of locomotion.

It'll short out everything with a microprocessor that isn't hardened/shielded. For civillians that's pretty much everything, especially your modern cuck truck.

anyways.

I swear the vast majority of shtf larpers are so retarded. They imagine it as their deluded little fantasy, where they call up their friends on a fucking cell phone, hop into their financed vehicle of choice, play Jow Forums jams via bluetooth, and microwave tendies at home when they're done shooting innocent people with their Poverty-Arms plastic black rifle.

Let's not pretend that a disaster scenario is a cakewalk. You'll be lucky if you survive at all, let alone have food and water. Assuming a 50% survival rate of the initial event, that's still a FUCKTON of people that have guns and want to kill you for your stuff. Driving in a vehicle is a death sentence. It's loud, very visible, vulnerable to small arms, and shows you have valuable supplies.

You guys want a real disaster-proof vehicle? Here you go, its the Harley-Davidson MT350E. It is diesel, fairly quiet, has nato shielded wiring, and even if the electric starter burns out you can still kick start it. 120 mile range too.

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As the guy below you said, it replaces the bumper (the actual steel bar across the frame rails). This allows forces to be transmitted directly through the frame rails. With the American style, the force is offset which creates a moment.

lifewire.com/would-your-car-survive-an-emp-attack-3903248

Check that out. 04 study found 37 modern cars not crippled by an emp

Results from multiple tests are conflicting based off some studies, but it's really a mixed bag leaning either way

>It'll short out everything with a microprocessor that isn't hardened/shielded.
First, an EMP wouldn't short out anything. It can damage things by inducing very high potentials and currents in conductors. Next, there's no way to know if a vehicle will be toasted (testing has shown that it's not very likely to be destroyed), temporarily cease functioning, or not even notice. Learn some shit.

>powerjoke

My dad’s 6.0L has so many gremlins he doesn’t even feel right putting it on the used market. He’s just an honest man and you can’t sell a used Ford diesel without buttfucking the buyer with hebrew tricks.

I found the suburban hybrid driver

ITT: people have shit taste in vehicles and chink trucks

a unibody is not a truck, only a body-on-frame vehicle can be considered a truck, no matter what Motor Trend faggots blather

Wrong. But I still do see a bunch of f-150s with rarely anything more than a simple tool box and groceries every day. Face it, most people that do have trucks hardly use them for what they are intended for and a honda ridgeline would be suitable for most truck owners.

>no registration
>no insurance

Let me tell you about a place called New Jersey

No, with a light duty vehicle like that, you can't tow and haul at the capacity of a truck.

For that kind of use, something like a CX5 would be ideal.

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I need a new vehicle fellas.

I like the looks and alleged performance of the Toyota Forerunner and the Jeep Trailhawk.

Any other vehicles I should mire in that same category?

Ford is 100% nigger-tier and it's funny how many people buy Amerishit cars. because they're shit.

Ford didn't take the Halfricans bail-out. My next car will be Ford.

1995 Jeep CX

Nissan Xterra

>Mazda
>Ideal
The fucking state of this board.

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>My next car will be Ford
you must enjoy wasting money

It did though.

If you're a retard maybe

There is nothing wrong with post-Ford Mazda.

Guess I should sell my chassis cab and get a prius according to this thread.

What is the best ladder-frame SUV that's not yuuge but has decent towing capacity?

No, they didn’t.

I worked for Ford and they flaunted it like crazy.

What year is post-ford? My brother and one of my coworkers both bought 2010 Mazda 3s like a month apart from each other and both had terrible rust issues, especially for garage stored cars. My old english teacher that I still talk to from time to time has a 2013 3 that's the same way. All start at the rear emblem and just get worse from there.

Good bugman, believe what your master tells you.

IIRC, the partnership was completely over in 2014.

Correction: September 2015 is when Ford no longer owned any shares.

Hmm, if they've got their shit together, good for them, but past experiences have left bad taste.
I'll keep my eye on some of the newer ones and see how they do a couple years down the road. They've been on my shit list along with Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, and Chevy for a good while.

Speaking as an industry insider I shit you not, Ford/GM have only one gen of the F-150 to go before it moves to a unibody design.

*F-150/Silverado

As someone that works for Honda, these are a fucking abomination that I wouldn't be caught dead in.

My plant is in a rural area and the parking lot is full of nice pickup trucks. Even with the discount for employees, I rarely see one of these.

They're pretty much the only company still investing heavily in developing ICE's, which is pretty cool.

The 2018 Mazda 6 GT does 250HP at 5k RPM and 310 ft-lbs of torque at 2k RPM.

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>things that won't happen for $500

I never asked for this, man. But the simple fact is that most F-150 buyers do it for "lifestyle reasons" and they will pitch the first year with improved towing and power.

Former Ford driver here, all this new shit they're doing with the vehicles pisses me off. I bought a 5th gen 4Runner and I haven't looked back.

Maybe not a larger boat or a loaded work trailer, but it should be fine for smaller boats, atvs, motorcycles and the such. Hell, my old el camino could do all of that.

I drive an F-250 daily. Commute about 30 minutes on the interstate. Weekends I use the bed for work and I regularly tow my 8000lb boat about 3 hours to fish and back through large city traffic.

Having 4x4 is super handy too. No snow but I always have friends getting stuck in mud.

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What is a unibody design?

>6.0
Sorry bud. That sucks. Get it bulletproofed and hang on to it
I will never let my 7.3L 4x4 SooopahDoooty go.
I can fill it up with corn oil or tranny fluid or motor oil or whatever. I have evacuated 2 hurricanes, and I have dumped a few gallons of Wesson oil in the tank to keep me rolling when there was no diesel available. Plenty of that still on the shelves.

Wrong, retard. A truck is simply a vehicle intended for transporting cargo. The type of frame has nothing to do with it.
That would kill it for the people who want the ability to mount flatbeds or other frame rail mounted devices which is a surprising number of fleet operators, so I don't think it's going to happen.
It stands for UNItized BODY and frame. The frame rails are formed, then placed into the body and welded there. This makes the body a stressed member, where the floorpan acts as a giant crossmember between the rails while the roof and pillars add torsional rigidity compared to a body on frame design.

Thanks for the explanation but I know nothing other than engine stuff so I didn’t follow that at all.

yet that dent compromised the structural integrity if his whole vehicle and will die the next time he hits a curb as a result.

>preparing for shtf
>not having a truck with a gasifier
Its like you want to be raped for you're beans

Poorfags gonna poor.

I'm going in to a dealership on konday for a 2018 4x4 supercrew 6.5' box loaded lariat.

Hit small tree

Body on frame
>big dent on outside shell
>back up
>frame survives enough to keep going

Unibody
>big dent on outside shell
>outside shell just happens to be the 1 major structural component of the whole car

Body on frame isn’t invincible it just... has a frame?

That is why I gonna stick with Toyotas

Also speaking as an industry insider you're a fucking liar that doesn't know what they're talking about

Unibody is inherently weaker than on body for hard offroad use.

Why are country girls so hot?

It's usually cheaper to repair and less likely to be written off by insurers after an accident.