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I'd like to have a stab in a Denali, seems like a Range Rover on some serious steroids.

Lowe, does it not affect your blind spot? Perhaps not, given you can pretty much eliminate that with proper mirror setup.
 
Can you believe this interior has been through 106,000 miles?

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Cookeh said:
I'd like to have a stab in a Denali, seems like a Range Rover on some serious steroids.

Lowe, does it not affect your blind spot? Perhaps not, given you can pretty much eliminate that with proper mirror setup.
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I can’t see out of the rear quarters anyway - passenger headrest blocks it entirely. They’re also smaller on the inside than the outside due to plastic trim so it’s not a major loss.
 
Regy53 said:
The Americans just know how to make trucks, I think the UK will catch up but this thing is a commercial range rover its quieter inside than my vogue se, has more gadets and feels almost as nice. Granted compared to a range its a bit bouncy but a range would cost me £500 a month company vehicle car tax, this will cost £70 with fuel. Size wise when you see some Rangers now it still makes them look silly but its not to bad

I was going to find a v8 something or other but you know these are as quick, they do miss a bit of noise but in such a big truck sometimes you dont hear it anyway. Plus the only v8's you can usually find is dodge rams and i am not a huge fan although the 5.7 hemi is epic
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Nice truck Regy. How much extra does a Platinum set you back in the UK if you don't mind me asking? I'm guessing import costs and "exclusivity" costs add a lot!

For the bounciness a couple of options, stick a couple of large paving slabs in the bed over the rear axle (what a lot of people do, especially in winter to add more traction, they are after all designed to have weight in the back) or get a set of aftermarket shocks, which is pretty much a standard aftermarket mod. They're pretty cheap, a set will cost a couple of $100, no idea how much in the UK. Fox and Bilstein are good options.

I have the 5.0 but was actually looking for the 3.5, a "better" engine in many ways if you can get over it not being a V8.

Acme said:
God, its a long walk, the perimeter of that. :p

Does it come with a security guard?
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F250s are usually owned by farmers, construction workers and fleets, not really stealing material. :p
 
Those guys must be laughing all the way to the bank at how much money us Brits will pay for essentially their equivalent of a Transit tipper.

Those things cost less brand new than they sell for second hand here?!
 
Jumper118 said:
Well I think the number of pics you take of it could wear it out eventually :p
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5*!

[TW]Fox said:
Those guys must be laughing all the way to the bank at how much money us Brits will pay for essentially their equivalent of a Transit tipper.

Those things cost less brand new than they sell for second hand here?!
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The owner of my local pizzeria is importing an F-150 himself from Canada and he'll save himself something like €20,000. The price difference is crazy.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Those guys must be laughing all the way to the bank at how much money us Brits will pay for essentially their equivalent of a Transit tipper.

Those things cost less brand new than they sell for second hand here?!
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You need to stop thinking that all trucks are work trucks... the cheap $20k ones are... the $40k and above ones are a luxury vehicle
 
Probably not a popular opinion, but I don't really see the attraction of huge American pickups in the UK. They were ubiquitous when I visited the US a couple of years ago, and they made sense over there, where roads and distances are huge and there's lots of rural communities with unpaved roads. But I can't help thinking that they are just oversized for the UK. Surely parking them anywhere is a nightmare? And sod trying to navigate one down a typical country lane. I gather that they are luxurious and have a "go anywhere" appeal, but are they really that much more accomplished than the smaller pickups in the UK market (or things like Range Rovers, Landcruisers, etc) to warrant the impracticality that comes with driving something so big?
 
So many replys thanks for the nice comments.

With reference to pricing, they are a mid 50's in the uk plus all the bits done suits me i never paid website price. The import fees i think add up, shipping, import duty is 10% i think then VAT if your VAT registered ( i am) the F150 is a mid 50's truck over here.
The thing about the american trucks @Conscript is the almost the luxury they offer given there commercial rating. I am a petrol head so like the best of what i can get and the ford rangers do not cut it for me they have no spec and are small, its silly to run a range rover through the business. These offer neigh on range rover luxury with half the cost and even less when your a business. The size can be a issue but its not that bad i already never park in normal bays with any vehicle i own (even my mrs smax) i always find the ends or corners etc.


Fords effort of a pickup to compete is the ford msport thing and if you see one there just stupid.

Do remember i have saved 20% on the price from corporation tax alone.


edit just found this not sure how correct

+10% duty on the purchase price (what the invoice says) + shipping cost
+20% VAT on the duty and shipping
allow up to another £500 - £1k for you to do the IVA and get registered taxed etc, maybe more if you get someone to do the work for you.

Or generally allow 36% on top of your US purchase price
 
Conscript said:
Probably not a popular opinion, but I don't really see the attraction of huge American pickups in the UK. They were ubiquitous when I visited the US a couple of years ago, and they made sense over there, where roads and distances are huge and there's lots of rural communities with unpaved roads. But I can't help thinking that they are just oversized for the UK. Surely parking them anywhere is a nightmare? And sod trying to navigate one down a typical country lane. I gather that they are luxurious and have a "go anywhere" appeal, but are they really that much more accomplished than the smaller pickups in the UK market (or things like Range Rovers, Landcruisers, etc) to warrant the impracticality that comes with driving something so big?
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I don't think it's so much the fact that they're more accomplished, it's more that they're a very different driving experience to something like a Range Rover. I've driven a few, and whilst dynamically they're significantly worse than pretty much anything else I've driven, they're also a hell of a lot of fun. The other factor is that you can put stuff in the back and not worry about messing up the interior: I had a pile of earth I needed to move recently which I'd never have put in a Range Rover as it would have gone everywhere and ruined the interior, instead I just chucked it into the back of a Ram and scraped it out with a spade when I got to my destination.

Lots of people where I live put bikes / quads and even small plant machinery in the back of them, another thing you can't do with a normal SUV.
 
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