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captpackrat posted...

I have a Ford Expedition XLT. With 2nd & 3rd rows down, it seats 2 and has as much cargo room as a long bed F-150 with a shell. I can carry up to 12 bales of hay in mine. With the 2nd row up and 3rd row down, it seats 5 and has the cargo room of a F-150 SuperCrew with a shell. With 2nd & 3rd rows up, it seats 8. You can also put half of each row down and half up to carry long narrow items like 2x4s or pipes while still retaining passenger capacity. It has the same engine and transmission as the F-150 and can tow up to 9,300 pounds. There's an EL (MAX after 2018) version that's about a foot longer for even more cargo capacity.

One thing that's really great compared to using a truck with a shell is that you can access the cargo area through the side doors, so loading furniture or packing it full of boxes or hay bales is much easier.

The only real downsides are that unlike a truck with a shell you can't take the top off to carry overly tall objects, and loading small livestock like goats or miniature horses can be messy unless you build your own stalls.


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Oooooo! I likey! Looks big. Now to look for a used one at a reason price.

And your animals are funny.


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