My car is the #2 choice, in that colour too! Great car but try and accelerate fast and it drops two gears and goes nowhere.

I thought it seemed bigger but decided you had the seats down.

Yes, I was trying to instill a bit of double-entendre ...fail.....

No, no...I saw that...I was just trying to be serious.

We could be the humourless Chuckle brothers ...to me to you.

You presumably have the previous model, more boxy Pathfinder frame on chassis rather than the blander (IMHO) current model so beloved by BristolUK. I rather liked them but then the days of boxy SUV's seem to be past. Everything is curvy now including my current ride. (Pictured).

Although it's not on the list of Soccer Mom mobiles, it surely is dead in that supposed demographic. However since I loath soccer in any shape or form & hockey ditto, and because I'm, well, a Dad, I guess mine will have to be a "Ballet Dad" ride!

Jumping in late here...I like a standard pickup, not a SUV. No longer have to seat a family and an open bed pickup is very useful often throughout the year.
As for groceries in the back...just keep a couple of cardboard or even plastic boxes in the back to contain your sacks of groceries.

I submit that this is not a practical option.

If the bed is open then the groceries are rained and snowed upon; few groceries benefit from such a soaking.

If the bed is covered by a tonneau cover then the groceries slither to the cab end leaving the unpacker with the choice of unfastening and refastening the cover or flattening out and squishing under the cover to retrieve them. I tend to adopt the later course, emerging with pieces of straw and patches of questionable fluids on my clothing. That's acceptable in a rural context but, of course, the typical truck owner lives in a suburb where such conduct will set the Buckets clucking.

Th F150 molded bed liner includes a feature about 2ft in from the tailgate that allows for a length of 2x4 to be inserted across the bed and groceries/small loads to be placed in that area & avoid the sliding all over the place problem. It's not an altogether failproof solution but works in a fashion. One obviously also requires a tonneau cover to protect ones groceries from the elements, or indeed, passers by who might help themselves to them. For the urban truck owner, the hard, lockable folding tonneau cover is best. At which point what you effectively has is a really big saloon car with a lockable boot.

I suspect that the molding in the bedliner only conforms to the shape of the bed itself. My F250's bed has several slots and indentations to hold "2×" timber, including to hold a timber (2×10, 2×12? ) horizontally across the wheel arches.

<wonders if he's missed the obvious while squished in the bed>

Given the way truck drivers drive their ugly trucks (as if they own the whole road) does it make anyone happy when they see one resting comfortably in a ditch especially in the winter months?

I was passed last winter when working in Whistler by an Alberta plated truck well over the limit and he was just an ass, 10 mins later passed him and his truck sitting in a ditch, hit soke ice and off the road he went.

Some reason the Albert's plated truck drivers are the worst, always speeding, and being aggressive on the roads.

Or when they pass like a bat out of hell and a fee minutes later they are pulled over by a cop.

Not me, no. If anyone has to crash, I'd like it to be the operator of a Toyota Prius or anyone who wears spandex to operate a bicycle. There are, in fact, a great number of vehicles I'd rather see in the ditch than a pick-up.

Grr lol the bikers drive me nuts. Think they own the road... One second they are on the sidewalk, next second they are on the road and then they turn and use a pedestrian crosswalk. They just do what suits them! Not stopping at stop signs is also a good one. They want to ride on the road and be respected by cars but following some of the rules car drivers follow is beyond them.

I'm always careful of them but I wish they would remember regardless of their inflated egos it is a multi-tonne car versus them and the car is always going to win.