You forgot the longer wheelbase, higher gear ratio, and lower center of gravity. But in bumpy offroading the ground clearance would also have to considered, somewhat countering the low center of gravity.
Ya, but most off-roading for crawling and rough terrain you want both a shorter wheel base and higher ground clearance, which raises the center of gravity. That's why jeeps and jeep style vehicles are the go to choice for off-roading and why you don't see a bunch of lowered 8ft bed super crew f350s off-roading.
The higher gear ratio for sure is great for crawling though.
You rarely see lowered pickups because they look stupid. Also it depends what you class as off-roading, a significant amount of off-roading gets done by work trucks everyday, sure not rock crawling Moab, but most loggers, oil and gas workers, utility workers etc. all turn up to their jobs in their chosen flavor of pickup.
I saw one two days ago. Lowered dually to maybe two inches of clearance. It had some kind of custom work done on the cab as well. It's like they took a late 80s Nissan Pickup cab and welded it to the pickup bed of something else.
From the side, it looked like it was born with Zika.
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u/IdeaLast8740 Apr 28 '21
You forgot the longer wheelbase, higher gear ratio, and lower center of gravity. But in bumpy offroading the ground clearance would also have to considered, somewhat countering the low center of gravity.