ICYMI: Hyundai to Make Its Own Version of the Honda Ridgeline

Also worth mentioning? The Ford Maverick. Looking at a few of the spy photos, it may be even smaller than the Ranger:

Is it me or does the Maverick look just like a F150. Size and everything. 

^Everything still looks obese with that much hood height and that high of bed sides.

I swear everyone on the GRM forum is into slammed minitrucks with the bed side comments.

I like high bed sides. Lets me put stuff in the bed. My first-gen Tundra had lower bed sides, I could only stack tires one level deep with the cover on. Now I can stack them two levels deep.

In reply to Keith Tanner :

It's not really the depth of the box that's an issue. Modern trucks don't have bedsides that are much different from the good ole days trucks. The box on a 1950s Ford F150 was just shy of 20" deep, so is my 2019 Canyon. The difference is in the load floor height. The Ford was 26", my Canyon is 32" (with 4wd) and a full size is taller. The load capacity of that Ford was just over 2000#. My Canyon is less. The beef that I have with modern trucks is I think they're built taller than necessary just "cuz it sells". A full size truck with a passenger floor height of 31" (Ford F250 4wd) is kind of silly IMHO. There's no reason a 2wd modern truck can't be built with a 26" load floor height. I think it's a sales thing.

Edit: ...and I'll add that in the good ole days stepsides were much more prevalent to ease side loading .

I'm old enough to realize that what I think 'looks/works' well isn't what many younger drivers would agree with. Oh well, times change. Meanwhile, that Hyundai's bed length would not be worth a darn to me. That, and no slider opening rear glass, would make it a definite no go for me. But then again, many truck owners these days don't haul anything more than groceries/sodas in their truck beds.

FMB42 said:

But then again, many truck owners these days don't haul anything more than groceries/sodas in their truck beds.

That's sort of where I stand on this new wave of unibody-based trucks. If you often find yourself pulling large trailers or filling the bed with particularly heavy loads or anything like that, you sure absolutely get a more traditional body-on-frame truck.

But, if you are someone that just needs a family hauler/commuter with an oversized trunk that they can throw a bunch of stuff into without worrying about running some carpeting, then trucks like these are probably what you should buy.

I'll admit that at this point in my life I'd get more use out of the latter of the two.

I'm curious if it will be able to tow 3500lb. a BG chassis on a tow dolly is all I'm asking for. 

captdownshift (Forum Supporter) said:

I'm curious if it will be able to tow 3500lb. a BG chassis on a tow dolly is all I'm asking for. 

If a Honda Odyssey can tow an S2000 on an open trailer, I'm sure this will do fine with that. 

I don't often haul heavy 'dent the bed up stuff' these days. But my bought used '06 Frontier bed has enough PO caused dents to make it look like I do haul heavy stuff.