The Lincoln Blackwood Was an Ultra-Quirky Luxury Truck Failure

This is a 2002 Lincoln Blackwood and I have been obsessed with this

truck

for years but finding one to review has been absolutely impossible until now, get ready folks because today I am going to review one of the strangest and most interesting

truck

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Scroll down to the description, click the link and head to the live auction for this Blackwood right now where you can bid, win and buy a Lincoln Blackwood only on cars and bids, so let's talk about Blackwood in the early 1990s 2000, Ford did market research. and they realized that many ford f-150 truck owners also had a

luxury

car in the garage, they had a

lincoln

or a cadillac sitting next to the truck, so they had an epiphany and back then when an American automaker had an epiphany, yes there were some bad ideas from American automakers during this period and some

failure

s but this might be the worst of all.

The Blackwood came out for the 2002 model year and was supposed to be a

luxury

version of the Ford F-150. It sold so poorly that it was canceled after the 2003 model year, meaning this truck was only on sale for two years, but they were two glorious years of the quirkiest truck on the market and you wonder why there are lines on the bed. Well, today you'll find out because I'm finally reviewing a Lincoln Blackwood. First, I'll take you on a tour of this truck and show you all the quirks and features of the quirkiest modern pickup truck.

I'm going to take it out on the road and drive it and then give the Lincoln Blackwood a dig score. I've been waiting for this moment for so long. Okay, I'm going to start with the quirks and features of the Blackwood. We talked about these lines on the box and when you get closer you can see that they are not just silver lines but also wooden ones. Here you have wood trim on the outside of this truck, between these silver lines and running all the way down the side. and in the back and on the other side, basically the entire bed of this truck is lined with silver and wood.

Now it's worth noting that this is not real wood. When the Blackwood was first shown as a concept car, it did have real wood trim on it. location, but real wood doesn't hold up very well to the sun, the elements, and years on the road, so real wood has a kind of fake wood meant to look real, but you're probably wondering why it had wood back here. What's the point of putting wood on the outside of the bed of this truck? I think they did it because they intended to evoke a very luxurious car with beautiful wood trim, hence the positive side and the name Blackwood is meant to evoke. a luxury car, but why are they trying to use a truck to notice a luxury car?

This is where

blackwood

is misunderstood. The blackwood was one of the first luxury trucks and as I said, Ford discovered that many of their f-150 owners also had a luxury car, but what is misunderstood is that the blackwood was not intended to replace the f-150 in the garage, it was supposed to replace the car in the garage instead of a town car or cadillac that you were supposed to get. Blackwood then you would have your truck and wouldn't have to buy a sedan for your other car. You could get a truck that was like a sedan and for that reason the Blackwood had a trunk.

Yes, that's right, you can see that the trunk is. automatically lifting up this tonneau cover instead of an open bed like a truck this thing had a trunk now let me show you how this works on the key fob you can see the locking and unlocking and below a picture of a truck and a picture of a truck with the trunk open you press the trunk release button and then the trunk opens like I just showed you and then it is in this position and then you have access to the trunk of your

lincoln

blackwood again think of this as a version of truck from a luxury sedan and it's starting to make a little more sense.

Further proof of this is what is inside the trunk now, to open the tailgate, you don't have any latch, you pull it and it hits the bumper and, instead, it is very heavy. you open it with a little latch here, half of the tailgate and then there's another little latch, you open the other half of the tailgate, very elegant, very luxurious, two small doors that open very easily and very quietly, but still one time the doors are open. You see here the trunk of this car, the bed is fully carpeted and on the side it has aluminum moldings that basically go around the entire side and front of this bed clearly, this is not a traditional truck bed, again think about this like a luxury sedan that turns out to be a station wagon with a giant trunk in the back where you can store all your and everyone else's golf clubs.

Now some interesting features of this sleeper trunk are that there are LED lights on the bottom that you can see. on either side you have LED lights, obviously when the bed was open at night you had these lights on and then you could see what was here which is a nice elegant touch. You also have these little storage compartments on the side of the bed so to open them, you press this little button in the center and then it comes out and you turn it and then you can open the storage compartment, a very stylish, luxurious little compartment, very different from what you would get in a traditional truck bed and Some other interesting elements in this giant truck trunk situation, for example there is an emergency latch to get out of here if someone tries to kidnap you in your black wood, you pull this latch and then you can go out and you can see that. the graphic even illustrates you coming out of the back of a pickup truck, not the back of the trunk of a normal sedan, so they have a special latch just for the blackwood which is a cool feature, plus you have tie downs load back here, like you do in many truck beds and some car trunks.

Here you have one in each corner and they are chrome. They are nice, stylish cargo tie downs that allow you to put whatever you want in here and ultimately use it as a giant cargo area. Another important component of this cargo area. This thing: the tonneau cover was not designed to be removed. You weren't supposed to remove it. It wasn't designed that way. It was not designed to be easily removed. So, you bought this truck. You didn't get an opening. bed and you weren't supposed to remove the top cover, it was hard to do and it wasn't meant for you to do it, you just had a giant trunk bed in the back of your black bed, think of it again as a luxury sedan that It's a truck, but the next step isn't over here yet, I'm going to move on to closing the cargo area in Blackwood first, as you exit these doors, you can see they have little storage pockets inside them, both the left door and the right one back here they have a little storage pocket in case you want to put a smaller item in the cargo area and you don't want it to roll around, it's a neat little trick but anyway when you want to close the cargo area load first you close the left door and then Closing the right door again is much more luxurious than a normal tailgate, which is very inelegant and also reveals one of the problems with this truck.

The black wood written on the back has nine letters so the k had to be centered except the seam for the doors are centered so the word blackwood is always perpetually off center on this truck which to me is a Kind of a nice metaphor for the way this truck went down in terms of production, sales, and appeal; It just wasn't exactly that well executed. but anyway, with the tailgate closed, you can press the button on the key fob with the truck on top and the trunk not open, that will close the trunk cover, as you can see here, it closes automatically, locks and then your giant trunk Lincoln Blackwood.

It is power operated enclosed Now it is worth noting that the electrical operation of this tonneau cover was a big problem for Ford when this truck was in development, so much so that Ford fell out with the supplier of the mechanism that powered the tonneau cover and Ford he froze. their contracts with that supplier, they didn't do any new business with them until they could figure out how to make this tonneau cover work like they had promised, they eventually got it to work, but they constantly failed and it's very difficult these days to find a black wood with a tonneau cover that works, although as you can see this one works perfectly, so you may be wondering what you do if your tonneau cover fails.

There is no latch here to get into the trunk. So you're screwed and the answer is fishing wire? What a lot of Blackwood owners do is tie some fishing wire to the emergency trunk release mechanism that I showed you earlier and let it hang outside the tailgate and then to come back here you pull the fishing wire and it opens the trunk lid. tunnel, not exactly the luxurious luxury that lincoln envisioned when they created this truck now interestingly there is another way to get into the tonneau cover, an emergency access way to access it, you get under the truck and you can see behind it On the rear wheel, there is a small cap that you remove the cap. and there is a keyhole and from there you put the key in, turn it and you can access an emergency lever to open the hood cover, but to do that you have to get under the truck and get dirty every time Ford expected this.

The hood covers wouldn't break and you wouldn't have to do that, but they break frequently, except here, so the Lincoln Blackwood was a flatbed truck, which was one of the problems Lincoln had when trying to sell it. Another problem for customers was that they only built these with two wheel drive. All Blackwoods were rear-wheel drive. Now again, this makes sense if you think of the Blackwood as a sedan that happens to be a station wagon, but buyers were confused. I don't understand why you had this really nice luxury truck that cost so much money and you couldn't get a four wheel drive version, obviously today in the era of luxury trucks we look back and think that was a Stupid decision, but this was one of the first luxury vans.

Lincoln just didn't know how customers would use it and they really thought it would replace sedans, so they would want rear-wheel drive like luxury sedans were at the time. Now another problem with this truck was the payload. The capacity was only 1200 pounds, meaning if you had four adults riding in the truck, all weighing about 225 pounds, then it was only 300 pounds short of the total payload capacity, so it couldn't fill the truck with people and things, or else it would pass. payload capacity, so the blackwood was a truck that didn't have a lot of truck stuff and that was a big problem in selling them, although it's worth noting that it had a 5.4 liter v8 with about 300 horsepower and ​This one has a tow package.

It can tow almost 9,000 pounds—those are pretty good numbers—but none of that was the biggest obstacle to the Blackwood's success. The main reason this truck was a monumental

failure

was the price, which started around fifty-three thousand dollars at O2 or its equivalent. At just under eighty thousand dollars today for a fancy two-wheel drive F-150 with an unusable truck bed, it was a lot of money to ask people to pay, as a result, Lincoln had predicted that it would they would do. they sold 10 to 15,000 of these each year, instead they sold about 3,300 of them in a span of two model years and then they killed it, but speaking of price, the Blackwood only had one option and it was a system of navigation that was implemented here in the center console, if you didn't have the navigation system, you had a little storage area here and a cigarette lighter, if you had it, you had this glorious, incredibly, terrible, horrible, horrible navigation system , so let's go over it, okay, so you turn this on. navigation system and it says Lincoln American Luxury, but you quickly question this slogan once you try to do something with this navigation system, okay, you can see there are only five buttons and then there is also a dial that sets the stage, let's start by entering to a destination, this was a very difficult process, first you had toenter the country and when you did, the only option was the United States, so I have no idea why they made you do that, but then you entered a city and because this is It's a touch screen and it only has five buttons, you had You had to go letter by letter using the little dial to enter each individual letter of the name of the city you wanted to be taken to one by one, each letter had to be selected so just entering a city took like three minutes and then you had to enter the name of the street you wanted to go to, which was even more difficult because there are even more street names and so on again, letter by letter, each individual letter, one by one, selecting them to choose which city. and what street name and from there you could also enter the street number, but by then you had spent like six minutes trying to enter the city, the street name and the country you were going to, so you already knew you were totally sick of it, but anyway here you can see the map on this navigation system and it's wildly old school and makes this truck look hilariously old-fashioned, just ridiculously ridiculous, so while it's accurate, it's worth pointing out Now, you can't easily zoom with this map.

You would think that zooming would just turn the dial and then it zooms, but it doesn't work like that. Instead you had to press the dial to see the feature and then scroll down to scale and then from there you can zoom, although it wouldn't show you a preview of the zoom you were selecting, you just had to select it and hope for the best and you will be able to see that once you select a new zoom it takes an incredibly long time to load what you have selected but there it is and now your map is showing a slightly different zoom level and if you want it to be zoomed a bit differently sorry, you have to get back up and running then escalate then resume, they didn't make it easy and that was true for all the controls. really none of them were easy, for example there is no back button here, these five buttons none of them are back, which means that on every screen you entered you couldn't go back easily, you had to scroll all the way to the end to return, which was as far away as possible from where you start each screen on each screen, then you clicked return and only then could you return and this was true even with the navigation destination input, if you wanted to return you had to scroll first through all the letters each and only then could you go back to the previous screen and another wonderful feature of this ridiculously old-fashioned navigation system is that there is a small element for emergencies, so if you have an emergency you have to scroll to the bottom instead of use a little dial for emergency and then press emergency and then your coordinates are displayed with the exact degree and minute of latitude and longitude, so even though this is a navigation system that knows what street you are on, it doesn't tell you.

That's what you say, if you have any kind of problem, you call the police and you can give them your coordinates, but not the street name or number. A very useful emergency feature on this system, but probably the most fun thing about this system is that you can change the volume. from the voice that told you the instructions and where to go to do it, you press the volume button, they don't have a back button, they have one for volume, you press the volume button and then you can use the dial to adjust the voice and when do it well, listen louder louder louder softer softer softer louder louder softer softer softer ah yes softer softer softer what a wonderful thing to program the female voice in the navigation system to say that Lincoln really knew how to classify it inside the black hood, except they didn't really have it and one of the other big problems with this truck at this price was the interior quality here, it just wasn't that nice, everything in this truck was pulled right out of a newly classified Ford.

Go up a little bit, you had a Ford steering wheel, for example, the same steering wheel and many Ford products, you had window switches straight from a four, you had the door handle inside, taken straight from a Ford, the plastic was not visible or visible. it felt so good. this column shifter taken from a ford, the gauge cluster, it was all Ford parts, the center control panel with the radio, the vents, it was all ford and, again, it was a big deal to ask the people paying almost 80 grand for mostly Ford stuff, but that said, they tried to classify it a bit here.

It had some wood trim, for example, around the interior, although not much and it is clearly fake. It didn't say black wood on the passenger side of the dash. So that helped a little and it also said Lincoln on the door sill, although in a slightly strange position it wasn't at the top of the sail like any other car, but rather it was on a sort of riser and it said Lincoln looking outside. when you got into the car, which in itself is an interesting quirk, but the intention was to make the interior a little more stylish.

Now moving forward, this was a

quirky

truck and as you can imagine, the interior probably had quite a few interesting quirks. The most ridiculous thing is the interior switch that opened the bed cover in the back. You had a switch in the ceiling that did exactly that. You can see it here and then you had another one like three inches wide, so there was one. switch for the driver and in case the passenger couldn't reach the driver's switch, the passenger also had his own switch, so two separate switches that do exactly the same thing were mounted two inches apart, on which were they thinking exactly? here is my theory on this truck owner theory the lincoln navigator had the exact same center console panel with these buttons and switches but on the navigator these little switches on the sides opened the vent windows one for the window for the left vent window and one for the right vent window, well the blackwood doesn't have vent windows and they didn't want to put a very obvious blank switch in there so they just made those two switches do exactly the same thing, how wonderful peculiarity of the blackwood and Speaking of the peculiarities of the Blackwood interior, I draw your attention to the cup holders that are in the center.

Here you can see it has a cup holder or it says remove for a large cup. You can take out the cup holder if you want an even larger cup holder, but not those. They're not your only cup holder options here, you also have some behind this panel that says push, press and some smaller cup holders open up. One of these is actually the ashtray. Getting the navigation system eliminates the normal ashtray location, so instead, they gave you a small ashtray inside the cupholder. You can remove it and use it for cups, although the soft cups only in this place you weren't supposed to put heavy cups in here or it might spill, it doesn't exactly inspire much.

The confidence in these cup holders and the quirks and features of this interior only continues, go behind the wheel and you have controls for the climate control. You can change the temperature or fan speed on the steering wheel. I love this feature and have no idea. Why did cars get rid of these easy-to-reach thumb controls for changing the climate control? It makes a lot of sense to have that on the steering wheel and I love to see that it's a wonderful feature, another cool feature on this truck in the middle, you have this. button, these are parking sensors, this truck had parking sensors in 2002, which was really important, not many vehicles had them, especially at this price, but this truck also had power adjustable pedals.

You see this switch to the left of the steering. steering wheel, you can press it and then the pedals move forward or backward to make it easier for taller or shorter drivers to share the truck. You can move the pedals without moving the entire seat. The steering wheel situation is a nice touch and this truck had a few too. Nice touches as far as the mirrors go, this little switch here will automatically fold into the mirrors. This was a common feature on European cars but was uncommon on American ones and it's surprising to see it here but it had power folding mirrors, the link in black wood. the mirrors were also heated and they told you that with this beautiful writing on the outside that said heated which looks like the Ford cursive font on the blue oval logo here it is used to describe the fact that the mirrors were heated so you can see how luxurious their mirrors are another interesting feature of the mirror; you can see a turn signal mounted on the outside of the mirror, again common on European cars, although not as common in the early 2000s, it was rare to see it anywhere other than Blackwood, it had this turn signal mounted on the exterior mirror.

It's kind of a prediction that cars will have this in the future, an interesting quirk, and speaking of the luxury features on the Blackwood, look next to the seats, you can see that there are heated and air-conditioned seats, and this doesn't It's like modern cooled seats where you just somehow cool the surface of the seat. There was an actual system here that, like air conditioning, the seat was trying to cool you down and you can set this switch to heat or air conditioning and then you set this dial to the heat or air level. conditioned seats you want air conditioned seats very very rare feature in 2002 but the luxurious lincoln blackwood had them although it didn't have fully power seats you can see the manual lever on the side to adjust the backrest Ford could give it a Air seat conditioning with five different levels of air conditioning, but they couldn't give you a power seat which was too far away for Ford to handle.

It's ridiculous to see that anyway, next we move on to the center console, which is very large in this vehicle. and it had to be because it contained many things. You open it and you can see the slot to insert the navigation discs that was the navigation system. Then you also have a CD changer here to play CDs through the stereo, so that took a lot of room in the center console, but there was still room for some extra things like, for example, the owner's literature here in this bag of the Lincoln owner's manual leather bound.

An interesting item is Blackwood's quick reference guide. You open it and the first page says, from the elegantly sculpted exterior styling to the carefully detailed amenities that every Lincoln seeks to bring you in true American luxury, yes, the true American luxury of having a manual backrest in your 80,000th truck, also in the space that they share with those slots for the navigation disc and the CD discs is this keyhole this keyhole allows you to lock the hood cover, so if you close it then the tunnel cannot be opened so you hand in this car to a valet that is locked and then they will not be able to open the tunnel using these little switches on the roof or the key fob itself because it has been manually locked and cannot be opened and then we move on to the back seat of the black one.

You can see there are only two seats in the back. here two individual bucket seats plus a center console in the middle, that's probably because they were afraid of exceeding the payload limit because if you had three seats back here, five seats total, then all you would need would be five adults who They were 240 pounds and then you would be over the payload capacity of this truck much less whatever you have in the back, so they probably figured four seats was a better way to avoid that problem. Now I want to start over here with the door panel.

I love this door panel. Everything is simple. Fresh out of a Ford truck, looks cheap, not that pretty except the little area around the window switch, they have this fake wood on them. That small little area is meant to emphasize the luxury of the black wood. A small piece of plastic fake wood on our Otherwise, the Ford's plastic door panel now has some interesting quirks back here, one being this little storage pocket on the back of the front seat. You can see that it is a very beautiful stitched piece of leather with this aluminum latch. Actually, it is a magnet.

You open it and you can place it. important documents in there, as you'd expect from a luxury vehicle, there's also hidden storage back here, you can fold the back seat forward and then that reveals this little hidden storage compartment. It has one of these compartments behind both rear seats and that allows it to store things that you don't expect anyone to find because you really have to know the blackwood to know that the compartment is there and, frankly, no one knows the blackwood.Next you move on to the center console back here, there's a really big armrest and it's a down position, but you lift it up and you can see it's a really huge center console.

You've got a very deep storage area here and then you've got another smaller little compartment on top if you want to use it, there's plenty of storage in the center console towards the back. Here now, on the front of this center console, you have cupholders where of course you can put cups, but if you want more cupholders, look at the back of the front center console, this little panel opens up and you can open it and then unfold it . two additional cup holders for four cup holders total in the back, although there are only two seats back here, I guess they thought that the people who were traveling in this vehicle would really have a lot of drinks, now talking about the back of the front center console in the At the bottom you have a small power outlet, which is a nice feature in the back seat of a car in 2002.

You didn't see it very often, but here it is in Blackwood. You also have some controls back here and this would control the music or the rear seat climate control, you can't control the rear temperature here, oddly enough, but you can control the speed of the fan and where the air comes out, such as the location of the air, and then you just have to politely ask the front passengers to give you the temperature you want and then we moved on to the black wood exterior where there was a lot of chrome trim and I mean a lot of chrome trim to really emphasize how much more luxurious it was than the standard f-150.

You can see some. of the most ridiculous chrome elements here, like this strip right under the windows, that's what luxury is known, a chrome strip under the window, same on the door handles, they're just regular door handles from the F-150, but with chrome on top again. A sure sign of luxury also the mirror caps of course chrome, if you want to have a truly luxury vehicle you must have chrome mirror caps but probably the most ridiculous chrome item is the fuel door which you can see here again, just a regular fuel door from an F-150. except chrome because they felt that would make the truck look more luxurious, the problem is that no one really bought it, no one saw all this chrome and said yes this is a true luxury vehicle and it didn't help that the wood black on the outside it really looked like a two wheel drive F-150 supercrew, it had the exact same lines, the same look and looked like an F-150, the only real changes other than the chrome accents and fake wood on the box, you had Lincoln specific wheels on this truck, which helped the look a little bit, helped it have a little more class and the front end of this truck was pretty much completely lifted off the nav, between the headlights, the grill , all that helped to do.

It's Lincoln, but it wasn't enough to disguise the fact that it was an F-150 that they wanted 80 grand for. That was never going to happen, but anyway, next we move under the hood at Blackwood and then you can see this truck. engine now the only thingThis truck had its advantage, it was a big 5.4 liter V8 engine, which was the largest V8 you could get in the F-150 at the time, it had about 300 horsepower in Blackwood, which It was a really healthy number for a truck back then. So the powertrain made it kind of a workhorse. These were also fairly reliable engines.

They are well known for their longevity compared to the Cadillac North Star of that era, which, as you know, doesn't really have that reputation, so it was a pretty good engine anyway. On the Blackwood, Even if the rest of the things about this truck were pretty questionable and those are the quirks and features of the Lincoln Blackwood, now is the time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the Lincoln Blackwood I. I've wanted to do this for so long and I'm so excited to finally be able to do it before I start experimenting with driving, a little conversation about market position.

This came out o2. I think the Cadillac Escalade truck called ext came out next year. The next year the Cadillac sold much better and I think what Cadillac realized about Lincoln was not that people wanted a luxury truck, but they didn't want it to replace a sedan, they wanted it to be even more personal. -front version of a suv like yeah I have a cool truck and it's a cadillac so the escalade ext sold very well and actually went through two generations while the blackwood pretty much only lasted one model year and part of another and I drove this truck. now i mean you can see they just didn't quite understand the concept of what would eventually become the popular luxury truck, the raptor, the denali, the escalade, they all came in and showed people how cool it was, this It was too discreet, it was too.

Frankly, they were trying to imitate a luxury sedan and they just didn't know what the luxury truck market would be like and this was a guess and it turned out to be the wrong one on the road, it's actually better than you. I might expect it to be better than I expected, it still drives like a truck, not that they've done much to affect that, but the good thing about it is that it's powerful, it has good engine power, frankly this engine was a bit lethargic in the original navigator I reviewed but it's fine in this truck which is probably a little bit lighter and you know the interior is relatively nice it's just not very nice it would have been great for the 90's but in 2002 a lot people looked at this and we were probably pretty disappointed with the price, but the real problem with the truck was that it wasn't very capable and it wasn't very flashy, so Lincoln was trying to sell you something like, real, like a luxurious luxury, like it was very nice.

Truck with all these features and it has some really amazing ones, but what it didn't have was what people wanted at this price, they want it to look good. He doesn't like to drive luxuriously. The direction has a lot of play. Hmm, frankly it's not a very luxurious, luxurious or enjoyable vehicle to drive, so even though they were trying to sell you an SUV or a truck that was a car, it drove like a truck but didn't have the capabilities of one, it really is interesting, although this is a very interesting vehicle, so like I said, Lincoln was planning on selling like 10,000 of these a year, maybe 15,000.

They ended up selling about three thousand, canceled the truck in the first model year, and realized what was going to happen. It happened that they had built some threes, so they sold them, but that was it, I mean, the truck instantly became an absolute disaster. Dealers were desperate to get rid of them, no one wanted to buy it and these days you don't really see it anymore. then that tonneau cover kept breaking, which was a problem that Ford was dealing with throughout the truck's warranty period and it wasn't, it was a try. I love these vehicles that are like the first attempts at something that became big, what ended up happening was Then Ford created another Lincoln truck called the Mark LT, which came out with the number 6.

And it had the capability and the toughness and it would have been fine , except the recession hit and they had to cancel that and, frankly, even that. It wasn't removed enough from the F-150, but it was still their second effort and after that they realized that people don't want a Lincoln truck, they want a Ford truck. Ford makes trucks that's where they want their trucks and then they started creating luxury trim levels for mainstream brand trucks and that's been the way that most automakers have approached this and now luxury trucks are really very popular, they just don't have luxury brands, you won't have a Lincoln truck or a cadillac truck or a chrysler truck people want their trucks to come from general truck brands.

I mean, looking at this car is incredibly

quirky

, incredibly rare, and so I've always wanted to check it out. I'm so happy I can't believe it. I'm sitting in a Lincoln Blackwood, how amazing, that's the Lincoln Blackwood. This truck is pretty fun, frankly, it was a colossal failure, but I've always had a soft spot for these and get very excited when I see them on the road very, very rarely. This is an interesting piece of truck history and I'm delighted to have had the opportunity to finally review a Blackwood anyway. Now it's time to give the Blackwood a Doug score starting with the weekend categories and designing the Blackwood is very interesting and I think I'm being charitable with a 4 out of 10.

Acceleration is quite slow and it gets a one out of ten fun, average for a 2000s truck but not great otherwise a little wonky and gets a two out of ten fun factor, also pretty low, not fast or exciting nor off-road friendly, and finally gets a factor of two out of ten, finally cool, and this is higher, they are getting cooler and cooler as people start to recognize how weird and strange it was and I would absolutely check it out . one of these in cars and coffee before another gt3 with stitching and gets a 5 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 14 out of 50.

Next up are the daily categories and features, has decent equipment and gets a 3 out of 10 .Comfort is okay, a little above average and gets a 6 out of 10. Quality is good, known to be reliable, but materials could be better and gets a 6 out of 10. Practicality is average, 4 seats. but a huge trunk. It gets the same practicality score as a sedan and gets a 5 out of 10. Finally, it rates them selling for between 10 and 20,000, so they're reasonably affordable considering how cool they are, they're also acceptably capable and reliable as a truck for that matter. price, so it gets a 6 out of 10 for a total daily score of 26 out of 50.

The aggregate score in the excavated score is 40 out of 100, which puts it here against other relevant vehicles and strange trucks that I've reviewed closer In fact. A decent comparison here is with the 99 Lincoln Navigator, which was Lincoln's SUV at the same time the Blackwood was made. The navigator wins by a few points mainly because it is more practical, but I prefer to have the Blackwood because it is one of my favorites. Strange cars of the modern era, the payload capacity was only twelve hundred.