I'm a 5'10", 225 and could comfortably ride across the country in the back. PLENTY of room without having to push the seats up! I love being able to just flip that back door open in my Scab to grab my gym bag, a few groceries or whatever, right from where I am standing. I regularly use ALL of the bed. The Screw looks "chopped off", an Explorer with a little tail. It's for penpushers and pretend men who never do anything beyond picking up the lawnmower in their trucks! Posers! (There are exceptions of course,and I confess that I am being at least somehat tongue-in-cheek here)!

If I got a Screw for FREE, I'd trade it in for a Scab!

 

That's why I have it. I just drove it from Florida up to Cape Cod for a few weeks of vacation and then back. I've got a 10 month old and all of the stuff we take with us wouldn't work well on a flight up there or having to ship it ahead of time. I use the truck bed with a Retrax cover for one large trunk.

The truck was absolutely great on the ride. Plus it's easier if it's pouring down rain and you need to change a diaper on the back seat. Much more room to move around.

This truck is a perfect match for my needs.

I do tow a boat and am going to get a smaller sized travel trailer in the near future.

 

Wow, I wonder why this debate has never come up before...

Scabs rock.

 

I just had to..

 

Well---here is plug for the Screws--I own a construction company and have hauled the following IN THE BED with no problems (each line at the same time)

--15 sheets of OSB (plywood) a dozen 14' 2x4's, 30 10' metal 2x4's
--40 sheets of 3/4' foam (4'x8'), 25 8' 2x6's and 3 10' 2x6's
--3 sets of 3'0" 6'8" prehung exterior doors.

...the list goes on. Oh yeah--AND I have a toolbox---it's all in how you stack and strap it!! BTW---NEVER a lawnmower--I pay someone else to do that! However--I can't wait to see the new 6.5' Screws. I went from an '02 8' Scab 4x4 F250--V10--so I have to admit I have had to make some adjustments....

 

Personally I think both the SCab & the SCrew look like crap compared to a "real truck" (Regular Cab)

 

It's the popularity of 4 full size doors basically. People are willing to pay more dinero for that style of truck. I wanted one the first time I saw them. I used to have a Dodge Quad cab and the difference is huge. No need to open the front door in order to get the rear door open. All you need to do is make sure the door is unlocked and then you can get into any door you want. There is no hassle to it.

 

Now there's a real work truck

 

We had a Supercab last time. It was a '98 STX (3-door). Everytime we'd go to the store or something, it would be a problem. Because there's a vehcile parked in the spot next to us and because the rear door was hinged reverse from the front, you'd end up getting trapped in the "v" shapped space between them. It was tricky to get out. Most of the time we just parked father out in the lot where there were less other vehicles.

Now that we have our new truck ('05 Supercrew) we still park out away from other vehicles. hehehehehe

We made some big compromises with our new truck. We needed something that could 1) tow once in a while, 2) hold 4 people comfortably, 3) get good gas mileage and 4) fit in our garage. We got 1 and 2 but not 3 and 4. You can't buy a rig that can tow AND be small with good gas mileage. They just don't build such a beast.

ALTHOUGH in the new issue of Grassroots Motorsports, the editor talks about towing a 3800lb load (Honda Civic on an aluminum trailer) with a HONDA ODYSSEY MINI-VAN! He said it works great! I think he's really missleading his readers.

 

I agree FeeltheThunder!!! That's a real TRUCK!!!! You be top dog!!!

 

That's the same mag that raced the Honda Odyssey against a Porsche 356 and a Jaguar XKE (if memory serves). Crazy folk writing for them.

 

I wounder why people buy a truck and never use it for work, a super cab is useless for passenger comfort and thiers not a lot of room for storage in them. 6.5 ft box sucks. If you towed a trailer for your contsruction/work needs than I can see having a super crew for the family and the trailer would be your hauler, parking/stoaring the trailer would would take some planning.

I have a reg cab 8ft box, and I'm a singel guy, I would buy a RWD four door car, or ......Station wagon for the wife/kids before I would spend the my money on a super crew.....It took my ford dealer a hell of a long time to find my 04 reg cab 4x4 and dodge and GM dealers did not have any reg cabs.

Trucks are only the latest consumer fad, work trucks are being up selled by the SuperDuty.....and with my 4 door rwd, LTD or Chevy Impalla, I have no desire to go off road...

 

Cyclone Vampire, I totally agree! I don't understand why they even bother with a truck bed on the Supercrew trucks. In my opinion a 5.5 ft. bed is for looks only. You can't fit anything in it! Every dealership I went to, the salesmen wanted me to try Supercab and Supercrew trucks, and I told them I wanted a regular cab. They always asked questions like "What about your friends?" [They can drive themselves.] "What about your family? [I'm 19 buddy!] I bought my REGULAR CAB LONGBED WORK TRUCK, the only way a REAL truck can be. And I didn't buy it to haul passengers!

 

My other truck is a ranger extended cab. I figured "Who would need more truck than this?"

That was my opinion too and I bought a 4 door car about a year before we had our first kid last year, figured the 4 door car would be the way to go.

After about 5 months, you get very tired of lifting 22lbs, sort of kneeling and scooting and contorting to get them in the kid seat in the back without knocking yourself out on the door jamb of the car.

I didn't want a mini-van or an SUV and my truck will seat 6 people (well 5 adults and petite female/kid).

After riding in the F-150, my wife doesn't even want to ride around in the car anymore for trips.

 

Amazingly enough, we don't all live at your house...

Here trucks are used because cars don't hold up so well on the bad roads, which will not get better do to the folks that run the county live on the other side of a mountain range.
Our road taxes go to fix streets 50-190 miles from our homes.

We also own homes. Most of the 1,000,000 or so in my medium size town are home owners. When you own a home, not rent, or live with your folks, you have a lot of uses for a truck.

Another thing is ride height. It is plain easier to get in and out of a truck than any sedan. Station wagons, from the 50-60's were a pretty good compromise, but they are all gone now.
And even when they made the big wagons, you can't bring home concrete blocks, big trashcans, Tracker hardtop, paving stones, washing machine, etc. all of which I have hauled in the last few months.

Another point, trucks are cheaper than cars of the same power/comfort level.

And despite propaganda by the press, trucks don't get that much worse real world mileage than cars.
I have a sedan in the garage, that gets 17 around town, 24 on the freeway.

That’s a couple miles better on the town, and about the same on the freeway.
Cost three times what the truck did, and insurance and license are twice almost to the penny of the truck.

It's low slung, and hard to get in and out of for a big guy, and you can't see over the cars in front of you. It also HATES these roads.

My last sedan suddenly developed shock problems, at 30k miles.
Out of warranty, of course, it was six years old. It was due to road conditions.
The shocks cost 2800 bucks. Plus installation. Computer controlled...

A truck would do the same roads ten times as long, and shocks cost a paltry 250 bucks, even if you did wear them out.
When I was single, I rode highway bikes, and drove sports cars. When I was married, and renting, I drove luxury sedans. When I bought my first house, I started keeping a truck handy.

Chris