New pick up

[Magnus Oyke]

I remember the days when a farm truck need to to be sort of legal, start without too much in the way of special treatment, go and have brakes on most wheels.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

I remember the days when a farm truck need to to be sort of legal, start without too much in the way of special treatment, go and have brakes on most wheels.

You wanna drive one of the new 2024 Rangers/Amaroks then, they do drive like a car
The Amarok I tried was nothing like a 1990's farm pickup
£50k plus Vat, though...................but a Fendt's now well north of £200k

Rock up in your Corsa/Clio/Viva/Ka/Fiesta to a Ford or VW garage and let us know how your test drive goes, mister

 

[Watsonius]

Which car drives like a pickup? Not one that I want.

I mean it is quiet and easy to drive. If you want something heavy and noisy get an old Defender

 

[Cowabunga]

Dude's saying his pickup drives like a car, I want to know which car drives like a pickup. It might have fancy seats, air conditioning, alooy wheels and a nice radio, but it won't drive like a car. Can you imagine head of new cars at BMW going to his boss and proudly presenting him with the new 3 series and saying how it drives like a f**king Hilux? It's be taken into a locked room, quietly shot in the back of the head and his corspe buried in remote woodland.

Actually lots of cars ride like modern pickups. I had a BMW X5, to use precisely your brand example, with sports suspension that rode as if it had no springs whatsoever. A real go-cart that didn’t appreciate British roads at all. Fiesta XR2 were similar and Mini rides very poorly also. I’m sure there are plenty of others.

 

[Cowabunga]

I remember the days when a farm truck need to to be sort of legal, start without too much in the way of special treatment, go and have brakes on most wheels.

1939 to 1945. Those were the days!

 

[colhonk]

Yes, my Dad had several big Austin cars as they were cheap because the masses could not get petrol, took bodies off and used then as tractors.

 

[ford 7810]

Yes, my Dad had several big Austin cars as they were cheap because the masses could not get petrol, took bodies off and used then as tractors.

Running on TVO?

 

[colhonk]

 

[Frankzy]

That may be an option for a future Fendt, where electric motor replaces the less efficient hydraulic part of the drive.

I believe JD beat them to the punch with their eAutoPwr

 

[Cowabunga]

I believe JD beat them to the punch with their eAutoPwr

Must admit that I was totally unaware of the existence of this transmission. It has always struck me, owning a Fendt made Vario fitted to a Ferguson myself [just having jumped off it having been fertiliser spreading], that the hydraulic part of the drive would be far more efficient and cheaper to manufacture and therefore sell, if replaced by electric motors. For some reason I expected AGCO/Fendt to bring it to market first.

 

[Frankzy]

Must admit that I was totally unaware of the existence of this transmission. It has always struck me, owning a Fendt made Vario fitted to a Ferguson myself [just having jumped off it having been fertiliser spreading], that the hydraulic part of the drive would be far more efficient and cheaper to manufacture and therefore sell, if replaced by electric motors. For some reason I expected AGCO/Fendt to bring it to market first.

I'm not so sure, more efficient certainly but cheaper? We've been building diesel-electric systems for a long time so even back when CVTs were just on the drawing board it wouldn't have been too novel.
I imagine there's a good reason why they went for a hydrostat over electric, whether that was price, maintainability, or reliability.

 

[CPF]

Would you buy a pick up / Ute with a tray like this one, only talking about the tray

or a tray on pickup/ Ute like this one , I think the blue one will a winner

 

[JP1]

Think I'd go functional with a Mocho version if I was in that market

https://www.mochofabrication.co.uk/product-tag/trayback/

 

[Cowabunga]

There are several dropside traybacks and other chassis cab conversions, such as person lifters around here. A privately owned feed merchant and a tree surgeon has a handful between them.

 

[Magnus Oyke]

The top one, but ditch the alloy wheels

 

[CPF]

The top one, but ditch the alloy wheels

Why ditch the alloy wheels ?

 

[colhonk]

Top one, have to be carefull not to put 1 tonnne dumpy bag at back of tray. Blue one is that to land the helicopter on when crop dusting?

 

[CPF]

Top one, have to be carefull not to put 1 tonnne dumpy bag at back of tray. Blue one is that to land the helicopter on when crop dusting?

Yes why not

 

[Magnus Oyke]

Why ditch the alloy wheels ?

This is a work vehicle, they're not brilliant on cars where they go crusty and leak, never mind not being very resistant to hitting anything harder than a discarded apple core. With this in mind, fit it with fairly narrow steel wheels and high side wall tyres.

 

[Neil MP]

Why ditch the alloy wheels ?

If you keep the wheels, you’ll have to rip the sleeves off all of your T-shirts…