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2024 F-150 single cab XL trim V8 4x4
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Like all modern software-defined vehicles, the truck is not perfect. But it is so much fun. For fuel economy reasons Ford made these trucks super light - aluminum body panels, plastic intake manifold and oil pan, full boxed frame rails but with a lighter gauge steel than you'd expect. Then you get one with the smallest cab and shortest bed they offer and slap a V8 into it - this 5.0L packs 400hp and 400lb/ft of torque. Punch it from a stop in two wheel drive and you can easily spin out the rear wheels. I pulled a loaded trailer for the first time recently and the truck acted like there was no weight back there at all. It is gigantic though. If they Mavericks or Rangers in a single cab (ideally with a V8) I might have gone that route instead.
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August in Appalachia
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You're sweating. You know that it's not possible for humidity to be greater than 100%, but it feels about 150. Your body is a solute moving through the heavy air, ready to drop from suspension into a puddle on the ground, mid-step. You are more a cloud than a solid: as you breathe and perspire there is no well-defined boundary between your self and the teeming nature around. It goes in you and you go in it. The day would be even hotter in the direct sun, your fluids cooking out faster than you can replenish them, but the dappled sunlight filtering through the overgrowth isn't a problem. All you can see is green and brown, mostly still, not bright and not shadowed. The chorus of crickets and other chirping insects is so loud that you feel you would have to shout, if you wanted to speak to a hypothetical someone standing near you. But there is no one else there, and you don't want to speak to anyone. If you stay here for much longer, you might just fade out into the moisture and nonsentient, writhing life, another animal in the forest, telling no tales, satisfied and certain.
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