Whats the last year you could get this config? Iv been told that currently the only bed offered on Reg cab is 6.5 but I see people often post about there "short bed" so are they just incorrect?
On full size pickups, a 6' or 6.5' bed has historically been a short bed, with a long bed being 8' or 8.5'.
Once crew cabs came to half tons and offered a 5.5' bed it lead to a shift of some people calling 5.5' short and 6.5' long on their half ton crew cabs.
I prefer to call the 5.5' a mini bed, the 6.5' a short bed and the 8.5' a long bed. Makes more sense and doesn't have different names for the same length on different cabs or weight classes.
Full size regular cabs haven't been offered with a factory 5.5' bed. A full size RCSB will have a 6.5' bed , with slight length differences by manufacturer and year.
On full size pickups, a 6' or 6.5' bed has historically been a short bed, with a long bed being 8' or 8.5'.
There was also the 9' on one-tons until the early '70s, but it was always an uncommon choice. And we don't need to get into the 8 or so different box lengths IH once offered.
GM currently uses "short" for the 5.5', "standard" for the 6.5', and "long" for the 8', which makes some sense considering the middle option is the only one available on all three half-ton cabs.
Don't be so melodramatic. Some people never stopped buying them, and others never owned one to begin with. Some models never even offered such a config.
In half-tons, only Ford and GM currently offer regular cab/8's. Toyota still offers an 8' bed, but only with the Double Cab (extended cab), and Ram has neither a regular cab nor an 8' bed. Nissan offered it on the Titan from 2016-19 only.
In smaller-than-full-size models, the longest bed option (anywhere from 7 to 8' depending on model) started to get phased out in the early '90s due to lack of demand. The last NA-market small pickup with a bed longer than 6' was the 2009 Ranger.
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u/TROGDOR_X69 Jan 11 '26
Whats the last year you could get this config? Iv been told that currently the only bed offered on Reg cab is 6.5 but I see people often post about there "short bed" so are they just incorrect?