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My dad has a '93 Ford Ranger

4 cylinder, 7ft bed, single cab with a bench seat. Gets around 20mpg, which honestly isn't too shabby even by new truck standards.

Over the years it's moved a lot of furniture, picked up a lot of bulky lumber and such from the hardware store, picked up a few decent sized loads of firewood, and generally done everything most normal people would need or want a truck for.

The bed is pretty low compared to modern trucks so it's easy to load and unload, back it up to a curb and you can pretty step right off the sidewalk into the bed with the tailgate down

I have complaints about it, but they're nothing most people couldn't live with. It's 0-60 time is probably best stated as "eventually," especially if you're carrying anything significant in the bed. And with no weight over those rear wheels it's kind of shitty to drive on anything besides dry paved roads so 4wd would be nice. And of course after 30+ years it's got some quirks and little things that are broken.

But if I could buy basically that exact same truck today, maybe as a hybrid or EV, I'd jump on it. I don't need more performance, I'm not going to use it to haul a bed full of gravel or anything, we've never had to tow with it, and when I've towed with my own car it's never been anything more substantial than a teardrop trailer that a Prius could probably just about handle if they came with a tow hitch.

I really like the maverick, it checks a lot of boxes for me and is overall pretty similar in size to my dad's ranger but that short bed annoys me, I can't fit a couch in that.