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El Calamity, clearly soldered together from wrecking yard parts.
This thing looks like the Sport Trac would look if someone cut off its balls and fed it vegan ice cream. Ford has been making some rather questionable decisions lately. The big Bronco is cool, the small Bronco is not, as for the electric Mustang SUV …
That new truck will be good for picking up groceries and that’s about it. What joke.
This is will be popular in the ghetto areas because is has a no-break-in-trunk. It’s wide open … hep yo sef.
“TRUCK”…?? Not a chance.
This thing is just another unibody pile of Expensive (am assuming that), non weldable Aluminum, FORD Junk….in an attempt to attract those millenials that still think the Honda Pilot is a Truck.
No frame on either of them.
Go real or go home…
You mean Ridgeline not Pilot, right? Pilot is an SUV with three rows of seats. Ridgeline is a nice little light duty truck. It is not a work truck but it has its uses. It is very dependable and has an excellent engine (again not for towing or heavy work), this Ford on the other side is an abomination.
Wots old is new again!
Ford Ranger, Bronco.
Bring back International Harvester, JI Case, White, Oliver, et al.
Soon to be named ‘WTF-150’
Hahaha ha ha … at least the El Camino had beautiful lines, which is why it remains so collectible. Whatever tortured “committee” designed that new thing … need a new line of work.
And I am certain this new contraption of a car/truck was designed with all the computer aided tools … 3d visualization and modeling software … the entire gamut. The El Camino was designed on sketchpads and adMarkers. Designed with killer airbrush renderings. Designed in scaled, then full-sized clay models.
As with music … analog always sounds and looks best. Computers are helpful … but also tend to divorce the soul of creativity from the created objet.
I call those trucks with the really short boxes an suv without a trunk lid.
No sense of history. What next Ford, a Pinto?
Edsel.
The American Motors Pacer is all grown up now….
The Gremlin!!!
https://twitter.com/derekahunter/status/1290670660268818432
Its perfect for a peoplekind-male to store his/its murse and makeup bag in the “box”
I cant recollect a more uncool, emasculated version of a classic car.
Either sell it in pink or Galen Weston yellow and decal No Name all over it.
“I cant recollect a more uncool, emasculated version of a classic car.”
Jeep Renegade and Cherokee are saying hello.
“Hold my beer” ~ Designers of Mustang Mach-E
I remember my Father had a beautiful red Ranchero.
Unfortunately, it got wrecked.
A friend had a Subaru Brat with the two plastic seats in the box, facing back. Can you imagine that today?
Yeah I remember the Brat. They put those seats in to avoid the tax on imported pick up trucks. With those seats it became a family vehicle. Rumor has it, that in order to insure one these days you have to sign an affidavit promising these seats will not be used.
So Subaru was catering to the illegal alien market back then, eh? Isn’t that who normally rides in the back of pick-em-up trucks???
I had a 76 Ranchero with the 351 and fake wood grain. Nice car for open prairie roads.
when I moved east it instantly developed some small holes in the bed behind the window, and the water would run down into the spare tire compartment below, get a few inches deep, then wash forward when you hit the brakes.
Kind of a shock the very first time….
THAT’S the ABSURD vehicle … I was trying to remember!! Uggh … what a horrific vehicle … seemingly always driven by … well … “different” sorts of people.
Your Subaruphobia is showing up again. 😛 Brat was fun and weirdly cool.
You my never forgive me for linking this: https://jalopnik.com/how-ronald-reagan-became-a-secret-subaru-test-driver-5877037
Barf bag ugly.
This Pseudo trukette is in the same genre as that but ugly boxy thing with the 90 deg rear curved window. The Belch, the Barf..? Well, something like that..
Manbunned Neutered Soyboy vehicles…
You can fit at least two 5-gallon pails in the bed of that thing. Awesome.
Only US gallons. Two buckets of five real gallons wouldn’t fit.
In all fairness, Honda already has one out there that’s marginally less ugly. Like somebody chopped the back of a minivan. I laughed when I saw it the first time.
The Honda Ridgeline and don’t forget the Pontiac Avalanche. I made an enemy on a sales lot when I referred to the Avalanche in negative terms like “who buys a vehicle that is neither fish nor fowl. Is it a truck or is it a car?”
The salesman got right huffy; I guess he thought they were just peachy.. Pontiac ceased all production shortly after so I’m assuming I was right in my assessment.
I think you’re mixing up the Aztek with the avalanche. Both sucked, the avalanche much less so
You mean Chevy Avalanche not Pontiac Aztec. Avalanche was actually quite interesting and quirky, even borderline cool. Aztec was awful in every way.
Ridgeline is also nice, not every truck needs to be heavy duty trailer tower.
They haven’t learned from the Dodge Rampage?
Thanks a pantload. I worked so hard to erase the image of that thing form my mind. It took me decades.
Ford used to have its own Ranchero. I suspect THAT is the heritage they would reference for this new vehicle.
Sport -ute in Aussie mate!
It is racist.
( sarcasm )
I miss my old Rampage. Fun to drive, turned like a jackrabbit.
Rust in peace, old friend.
stupid catcha. A motorcycle is neither a bicycle nor a car.
Subaru Brat?
In the 1970’s one of my Sask friends made his own “El Biscayne”. Said that made it qualify as a (farm) truck so they could burn purple gas.
The Sask premier at the time was Ross Thatcher, a businessman and the last Liberal with any common sense.
The cars that were cut down into trucks became known as Thatcher Buggies.
Here’s a fancy one a guy did more recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxyRU7zeB4I.
No more room to carry stuff than a Dodge Caravan – except you have to carry it outside. Great for garbage or fuel containers and not much else.
OMG a little cutsy little vehicle that can’t do anything right. Not big enough to haul anything for real. Not strong enough to pull any trailer. Driving the kiddies to Grandma’s is going to be great fun when the rain starts and you have to pull over to get the suitcases out of the back and put them on laps.
Small difference; I’d want an El Camino.
Why buy a horse when you can lease a camel?
As someone else said, What’s with Ford these days? Even that strange small van they put out about five or six years back is butt ugly, and this latest attempt would only be called a truck by a metrosexual male. Yuk, I won’t be buying one.
Anyone remembers early 80s VW Rabbit Pickup? Those are cult classics now. Don’t think the Ford will be.
Let’s see……
4 doors. Check
Short box. Check
No hitch. Check
Box Cover. Check
4 or 6 cylinder eco engine. Check
The only thing you can haul are kids and cat food.
You are driving the mini van of the new millennium.