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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Sorry, I wasn't trying to shoot it down. I was actually wondering if you were getting a truck before when you said we wouldn't guess, but I wasn't sure you could whip a truck around. The combo with the Softopper actually seems pretty cool and while I wouldn't put a truck at the top of the list for a next vehicle, it's not technically off the list either.
I just ran into some reviews where some people said soft is no good with some non flattering comparisons and it's all hard top or nothing. Either way, it did seem super cool, but there were some worse pics that I stumbled on and I don't know if it was just pics an off brand being brought into the discussion or if some people didn't read instructions and installed it super poorly.
The Jeep comparison makes sense to me. Seems really neat. Congrats on your ride!
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Hah, didn't think you were shooting it down, don't worry!
Yeah, most of those guys don't know jack sht. I've had hard toppers, hard tonneaus and now a softopper. 99.9% of reviewers are car enthusiasts and don't understand trucks or how trucks are used.
When you think about it, almost everything you own had components in the back of a pick-up truck at some point in its journey to you. Your food, your clothes, your furniture...all along the path from raw materials to finished goods pick-up trucks are needed. Car guys like cars because they're fun and they handle well. When they review trucks, I always chuckle at what they focus on because they never "get" it. A truck isn't a car and its not used in the same way. It's a tool that can haul and tow. The Lobo is a unicorn in that respect in that it can handle and be tossed around like a hot hatch, but also do most truck things.
This softopper can collapse in one minute to open the entire box, which means you can put tall items in the back of a truck. A hard top absolutely caps the height of your loads in a very limiting way. The plus side of a hard top is added security; however, they're hilariously easy to break into, so the security is more of an illusion. The softopper is really for people who use their truck for truck things and need the flexibility. The price point is also really cheap for what you get.
But yeah, honestly, these guys don't have a clue what they're talking about...I'd ignore them. This is the only bed cover that can offer an open or enclosed box to adjust to your load in seconds. Removing a hard topper is a big endeavor requiring two people and storage. I had a hard topper on my old F150 and I did love it in many ways, but too many times it bit me when I needed to carry a tall load (e.g. a commercial air compressor, some machinery for my shop, a load that measured fine to get into the truck, but I hadn't accounted for the height of the pallet, etc.).