There are flashier pickups. There are greener pickups. There are pickups that will massage you while whispering affirmations. But the F-150 remains the one America defaults to when the job actually matters.
Late last year Ford sent me a Bronco, finally, for a week.
Back in 2022, I got behind the wheel of a Ford Maverick and spent the first few minutes wondering if someone in Dearborn had made a clerical error…
The world is changing and there is little we can do about it.
The last time I spent a week with a Ford Ranger was 2021. It wasn’t too awfully long after our modern version of the Dark Ages, or as I like to refer to them, the Before Times. Some still wore masks, and most of us were getting used to our new normal.
A few weeks ago, I spent a glorious day rocketing around the Sonoran Desert near Phoenix in a Polaris XP RZR.
The last time I had a week with a Ford F-150 Raptor was in 2017.
At my age there aren’t too many ‘firsts’ in my life.