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    Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger

    Ford Loves New Chevy "Man Step" Commercial
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    Or, you could use this as a rear-facing jumpseat for the kiddies. Just like the large family wagons of the 1970s, with an added element of excitement and adventure...
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    Image of chollo9 chollo9
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    Howie: "Hey Buddy, you left your pooch step down."


    Buddy proceeds to rip Howie's fucking face off, open the passenger door of his Chevy, drag Lois Lane out and fuck her Buddy-style.

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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    02/10/09

    @chollo9: Wow, let me get this right....


    He asks nice but he still proceeds to rip his fucking face off.


    Andy fucks her...


    I still don't understand how he ripped his fucking face off tho..


    /Airplane II

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    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    "Hopping in and out of the increasingly lofty beds..."


    Jalops banging a bit above our station in our new-found promiscuousness, eh?

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/10/09

    @SeanKHotay: Purely aspirational.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    Call me when you figure out the hydraulics.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    Now do I think my 13 year old dog with cataracts can see that damn step to get in the bed of the truck? No effin' way. Still sounds like better odds than me trying to pick his 80 lb. ass up onto the tailgate and not getting bit in the process.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    This accessory definitely makes you your truck's bitch.


    Graverobber, look a little closer. Not a bitch step at all.


    Of course, this is a solution for trucks that are set too damn high, for no good reason, to begin with. Maybe fiver percent of pickemup buyers really need all that ground clearance and tall tires. I'm not sure I ever had a construction task that a half ton truck didn't manage adequately. And if I did, I needed a whole other class of truck.

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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    [www.jcwhitney.com]



    Only $50.99...order two or more and the standard shipping is FREE*

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    Image of racerx racerx
    02/10/09

    @JCWhitless - Honda killed the S2000 to afford to advertise ...: How the hell is that thing mounted? Just bolted onto the tailgate? If so I couldn't see it or your tailgate lasting very long.
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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    02/10/09

    @racerx:


    [www.toplinemfg.com]


    The installation instructions clearly spell out how this fine item installs with four average sized 3/4" screws.


    Hrmmm

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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    "MAN STEP" you say? Maybe Jalopnik should cross post this Truck 'N Buddy thingy with Jezebel and rename it the "Empowerment Step", or the "Liberated Step"
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    02/10/09

    @POLAЯ: As long as we can rename "Panoramic Vista Roof" something more obvious, like "Glass Ceiling"
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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    02/10/09

    @Ash78: Or maybe something like "Reach for the Stars Roof" or

    "Vitamin 'D' Enriched Roof".


    ...but if I can actually be taken seriously here, I sincerely hope Ford isn't approving of GM naming their contraption the "Man Step". To me that says only men are to dumb to know how to get out of a pickup bed without getting a booboo.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    GM, et. al.,


    Do you see what not offering a ute in the US has led to? Old, 300 lb. men who want the functionality of a truck but can't get themselves in the bed with out assisting devices are emasculating themselves.


    Think of the geriatric lardasses and give us the G8 Ute!


    Sincerely,


    engineerd

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    that pup seams to have a little dragon in him
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/10/09

    @damnelantra™: No, he's clearly the one doing the giving.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/10/09

    @SirNotAppearing: genetics...
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    I carry seventeen cinder-blocks in the back of my truck just for this reason. When I have to climb up into the bed of the truck, I quickly assemble a staircase out of the cinder-blocks. I used to carry an ice-pick and pierce my tires to lower the bed height, but this is just so much more practical.
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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    02/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: What are you, some kind of poofta?


    I simply unbolt the bed, sit it on the ground, load the bed, put it back on the truck, and go back to working 38 odd hours and the mill for six pence a week, and when I get home my mum and dad would beat us to sleep with a broken bottle.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    02/10/09

    @JCWhitless - Honda killed the S2000 to afford to advertise ...: A broken bottle? Damn you got off light, your parents must have really loved you.


    I used to unbolt the bed, I've gotten lazy. I'm not a poofter though, that would be horrible. I'm more of a sissy.


    /that's about as much as my self-deprecating sense of humor allows.

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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    02/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: You know you tell the kids that these days and they'll neva believe ya.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    02/10/09

    @JCWhitless - Honda killed the S2000 to afford to advertise ...: Yeah, that and walking uphill both ways, in the snow, on my way to school. And lest I forget, we had to go to the library in order to research a topic. Kids nowadays just pull their ignorance straight from the web.
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    Image of 78_elky 78_elky
    02/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: You could just have gotten a lower truck... I always laugh at the guys at the dump climbing into their truck beds, my El Camino is truck enough for me.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    02/10/09

    @78_elky: I could have, but then what would I do with my cinder-block staircase?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    02/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Dude, barefoot. We were barefoot, remember?
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    02/10/09

    @pauljones: That's right, and I don't know why FromaBuick6 is talking about excavators, everyone I know digs the hole by themselves with a shovel.
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    Image of ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
    02/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Shovel? When I was a kid, all we had to dig with were those flat little wooden spoons that came with the ice-cream cups!
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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    02/10/09

    @☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя's double-fried chocolate Moon Pie and rabi...: Hrumph, we would dream of diggin' holes with those flat little spoons. We'd have to use the broken off legs of grasshoppers held in our teeth, all the while neighborhood kids took turns throwin' bricks at our heads.
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    Image of WilliamG. WilliamG.
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    Awww, how cute. Now Chevy can have a less convenient, less functional version of the man step AND keep its 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. WIN!
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/10/09

    @WilliamG.: Not to mention rickety. I wouldn't stand on that thing.
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    That dog would rather hump a Chevy than drive a Ford.
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    Image of Clay Davis Clay Davis
    02/10/09

    @Ash78: Pretty sure that's a Tundra
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    02/10/09

    @Clay Davis: Good call on the dog's Asian fetish.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    02/10/09

    @Ash78: Dude, that's Asian American fetish.
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    02/10/09

    @theeastbaykid: The truck didn't build the f*cking railroads, Walter.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    02/10/09

    @Ash78: LOL!
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    02/10/09

    In reply to Truck N' Buddy Aftermarket Pickup Truck Step Gives Ford Patents The Finger
    So if Ford has the Man Step, is this the Bitch Step?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/10/09

    @graverobber: Jay Wert Hacked my Sig!: Or, from the wording of the press release the Fat Bastard Step.


    I also gives your dog easier access to hump your tailgate.

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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    02/10/09

    @graverobber: Jay Wert Hacked my Sig!: The Girly-Man Step.
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    Image of Saboth Saboth
    02/10/09

    @graverobber: Jay Wert Hacked my Sig!:


    Actually I'd say this is the manlier of the 2. The Ford one comes with a built in "Cane". What's next, a handrail?

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    02/10/09

    @Saboth: Dude, you gotta' dog that can use a hand rail, I'd like to see it.


    BTW; that retriever does appear to be a male, and the height of the step looks to be perfect for keeping his lipstick from getting snubbed on the lip of the liftgate. That was very considerate, dontcha think?

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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    01/27/09

    In reply to Ford Loves New Chevy "Man Step" Commercial
    I love this country. Let's sell our utility vehicles to people who don't actually need them. To make them attractive to this market, we make them unreasonably big and tall so that they become macho - and impossible to get into. Thereby we remove their usefulness but, on the other hand, we can charge more for them. Then we add lots of otherwise unnecessary engineering to regain a most modest measure of utility.


    Each of these monstrosities sold is the equivalent of pissing on Colin Chapman's grave.

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