The typical pickup truck bed is little more than a box with a tailgate, but Ford is envisioning something more elaborate. Four recent patent filings from the automaker show ways to make a pickup bed ...

Automakers seem to think that modern truck tailgates should be as versatile as swiss army knives. General Motors’ Multi-Flex folds out six different ways, for crying out loud. GM didn’t start the ...

Back in the mid-’80s, Ford was experimenting with the idea of a Ranger with a special fiberglass side-step bed with exposed tractor-like tail lights. Only 15 examples of the Ranger Shadow were built ...

Power running boards and built-in bumper steps are common features on new pickup trucks, but a new Ford patent filing effectively combines them. The filing, which was published by the United States ...

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On the final media day of the 2008 Chicago Auto Show, Mike Levine from Pickuptruck.com walked us over to the Ford display to show us an inconspicuous Super Duty sitting among a fleet of Ford ...

More than any vehicle I’ve known, the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup truck emphasizes and enables owner upgradability, complete with DIY plans and videos like this one to install bed-rail lighting ...

Ford knows that pickup truck owners love to modify their vehicles so with the new Maverick, it has made things a little easier for them. If you look in the ‘Flexbed’ of the Ford Maverick, you may not ...

We’re not getting a Ford Ranger Raptor anytime soon, but now we can get closer with Ford Performance Accessory Packages in three levels. Ford says its Ranger buyers already accessorize their pickups ...

The proverbial pickup box, which for decades was just that, a sheetmetal box, has suddenly become a hotbed of innovation among truck makers. Ram has the RamBox bedside storage system, Ford has its ...

Pickup truck makers are so competitive (You: How competitive are they?) that the “anything you can do, I can do better” approach to truck design is prompting rapid innovation in the pickup truck bed ...