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Originally Posted by Air&Road
You just described all but one of the trucks I've bought over the years. My current truck is a 4X4, short bed, regular cab, V8, five speed manual. It's a 2000 model and was hard to find in that configuration.
It has wind up windows, rubber mats, cloth seats, no pushbutton locks or any of that stuff. It DOES have a cruise control and a manual climate control air conditioner.
My kind of truck! Keep It Simple Stupid(KISS.)
BTW, what REALLY makes me a wierdo around here is that I only use the truck when I need a truck. I'm about one of three people in the county who don't think that they need a four door, dually one ton 4X4 to get them back and forth to work. Wait a minute, I just described what they use it for, not why they bought it. They bought it as a status symbol, except for some of them who actually NEED such a truck, in which case it's obvious why they bought it.
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True, but a truck in that second config, will actually return decent fuel mileage! Its why I stopped driving my ML430 and started dailying my pickup. My truck easily gets 5mpg better than my ML!
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Originally Posted by engatwork
I'm pretty sure it is built that way to allow it to have more load carrying and pulling capability. I've never seen a Freightliner with a unibody.
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This! A great example of this is the earlier body on frame MLs had a higher towing capacity than the unibody ML that followed it.