Strong axle & drive train, cruise at 60 with a load of amps, easy to hose the puke out after a tour.

The gas engine is the Ecoboost out of the F-150. The diesel is an inline-5 PowerStroke...sound familiar?

deisel which could get upper 20s mpg, but it would fail emissions here.

IMO, light PUs & vans need to be completely re-conceived in purpose and design. They are too inefficient, inflexible and costly to operate, esp. in urban areas.

And that's the one they sell in the US.

GR: well, it says here you are married and have kids. How many?

GUEST: Nine.

GR: (stunned) You have NINE?

GUEST: Well, I love my wife.

GR: (looking at cigar) I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while.

functional for hauling cargo.

Has spent many an hour in the '15 Pass'

That rock/punk acts get a 1-ton with the strongest autotrans, big motor & rubber floor. The mileage diff. with a small engine was inconsequential, the tranny had a cooling package, and knowing the proclivities of rock musicians, NEVER get carpeting!

We either used them with four benches loaded with crew members with a 20 somthing PA who could never keep it under 85. But later, the union gigs had Teamsters and those guys are always cool as hell.

Or,

On Skelton doc crews and such, it's pull the back two benches. Load it tight with gear with a four of five person team.

They were the American Land Rover of Vans.

(Also the first vehicle I ever drove in NYC)

No A.C. (understandable), but with a 300 c.i. straight-six below 8:1 compression ratio.

One thing the rockers did was to build a raised floor of 2x6 boards supporting sheet plywood. Under this they slid mike stands and some instrument cases, cable bundles, etc. Above, big area to pack amps neatly & have mattresses.

moving production here for any model is a good thing, just clarifying that these are not ford's best selling f150. these are produced at a relatively low volume.

1966-67. On the weekends we would do military funerals around Georgia and South Carolina. One trip we were late for the funeral because of a mix up
so our seargent aranged for a GHP escort. I hit 100 MPH in that van. I always wondered what the locals thought was going on
with a Georgia HP cruiser going through town like a bat out of hell being pursed by an Econoline van with 7 solders in it.

Slightly??

I guess we have Kasich, the Koch brothers and a whole host of other ant-worker groups who have made low wages in Ohio possible.

with a voice like wine, cruisin' along in her Ford Econoline..

-Nanci Griffith, "Ford Econoline"

I wonder if projected lower energy costs are a factor. Ohio is right atop the Utica Shale, a formation that is projected to yield lower natural gas costs for a number or years going forward.