Ford Dealers Once Sold A Fox Body Car-Based Pickup Truck: COTD

Last night, I asked you lovely readers to give me the cars you’d love to see turned into a pickup truck. Sadly, the coupe utility vehicle never really caught on that well in America. Certainly, Americans didn’t fall in love with the car-based pickup like our friends in Australia have. But that doesn’t stop enthusiasts from dreaming.

Readers gave a lot of great answers to my question, including the Toyota Sienna, from Spikedlemon:

Hear me out.
It’s large so would make a useful size vehicle for those who pretend to need a truck.
It’s rather posh on the inside with a nice ride so stacks well against current crop of trucks, but would happily take your comfortably and quietly down endless American Midwest highways.

But counter-argument is than a van (minivan) is already a far more useful vehicular format. And so many current truck owners could have been far better served by having a minivan in the first place.

To Cadillac’s Blackwings, from Patrick O’Donnell:

CT5-V Blackwing & only available with the 6 speed.

But more than one of you specifically mentioned the Ford Fairmont, including John Beef:

I just commented in the other article that the Fairmont Futura would make a good ute. It wouldn’t need an extension or anything, just a transformation between the side panels and behind the driver’s seat.

And TheDrunkenWrench from this morning’s Cold Start:

The Fairmount Futura is my answer to yesterday’s question on what car should be a truck.

Look at that rear B-pillar line, it’s just BEGGING to be a Ute

I have good news. Thanks to Ford dealers and National Coach Products in California, such a thing existed in the form of the Ford Durango!

Click here to read about it.

Earlier today, Thomas wrote about how a Porsche Macan diesel’s Y-pipe looks, as the kids would say “dummy thicc.” From Canopysaurus:

Germans, so anal.

MAX FRESH OFF:

Step filter what are you doing?

Dodsworth:

How much will it cost to fix your Porsche? Allow me to show you an interpretive sculpture.

Tbird:

Thank you sir, may I have another.

Honestly, all of the comments in that one are COTD-worthy. Thanks for the end-of-day laughs!