We're not exactly pickup truck people, though we've owned them and know a little about their joys (dining al fresco, hauling stuff to the dump) and their sorrows (cleaning the crayfish out of the bed after a rainstorm, cornering). Those geniuses at Rinspeed have come up with an ingenious solution to the problem of lifting heavy objects from the ground into the bed. It's called the X-Tra-Lift, and we may return to pickups just for the coolness factor of having one of these in back.
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