BTW the tank has a better forward view than the truck
They look so small when they climb out I have to laugh. They think they make them look big and tough when they really make them look small, insecure, and silly.
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A tank does not have better forward view than a truck
Sad thing is it looks like he has spacers on his wheels so he is as wide as a dually with no marker lights. Lifted so even less visibility and prolly a douche.
This is coming from a guy who owns a f350 dually who uses it for work / hauling stuff for the farm. Not for getting groceries or cruising the strip.
Really should be a law proving you need the truck for something other than a commute but then again. ‘Merica!
Really should be a law proving you need ~~the truck~~ a license for something
I mean that's against the freedom to do whatever you pay for. Is it stupid? Absolutely. Is it useful? Not even a little bit. My ex GF used to call these "small penis trucks". I don't see the point. My Bolt has way more capacity in the back and I don't have to lift it into the bed.
Really should be a law proving you need the truck for something other than a commute but then again
Personally, I'd just like an affordable bare-bones option for something like the 1990's ford rangers or 80's chevy luv's. I don't need extra seats and I'd like to be able to take stuff to the dump.
Whether or not he has spacers, you aren't getting much work done with rubber band tires.
When I was a teen, I drove my parents' 94 Chevy S10 with the mini-extended cab. The kind with those two, tiny little sideways seats.
That truck had a 4-banger in it and was lucky to hit 70mph with nothing in the bed and a stiff tailwind. But damn if it didn't haul everything we threw at it.
Beauty bark, topsoil, gravel, rubble from demo work, river rock, goodwill hauls, and moved multiple friends into apartments, piled way over the cab with furniture.
It screamed and revved, but it never failed us. About 20 years of faithful service before it was put out to pasture.
I still miss that truck...
What I don't get is how people can afford driving any truck for personal use.
I mean I'd like a truck for hauling stuff around the house, like feed, firewood, and the odd building materials. But I can't afford a car just for that, so I would need to use it for daily driving as well. I did a cursory search for used f150s and the cheapest I've found is a 2015 king ranch gas powered two seater, which, besides the ridiculous price tag of 56k USD, is guzzling gas at an astonishing rate. Just the gas for my commute alone would be about 700USD monthly.
I know my numbers are a little high, these are Danish figures, but I still see dodge rams and f250s on the road. How the fuck are people affording that? Are they just going deeper and deeper into debt to peacock? That hardly seem sustainable.
Edit: somehow I claimed that I could afford a separate car for truck stuff, and then proceeded to explain why that wasn't the case. Fixed that.
It’s crazy to think I bought my 2012 f350 loaded in 2014 for 38k
It broke my european mind when I was talking to an American about fuel prices. I spend like 90$ a month MAX, usually less on petrol. And then this mother fucker says 200-300$ A WEEK!!! BROTHER WHAT?!? And American fuel price are lower than here due to government subsidies, so like holy shit... How much more is that thing eating up??? He said that he only included his non work driving too...
Part of the problem is their commute is also probably a farther distance due to suburban sprawl and housing prices pushing people farther from their work places.
Not only gas prices, some trucks are priced similarly to mid end porsches. I've always seen them similarly as I see minivans or SUVs: something circumstances might dictate you should drive instead of a car. Minivans if you need to haul kids, SUVs if you need to haul sports equipment, trucks if you need to haul things moved by front loaders or outdoor tools. Or maybe if they do some offroading, certain trucks work well for that (though I'd personally rather go for a jeep, Suzuki, or something small).
But for some reason there's people who get a fancy liner so that their groceries don't scratch their truck bed and their tires never touch dirt until maybe they want to show off and end up stuck in some mud or something because they forgot to set it to 4WD.
What happened?
It's worse than that. I live in a rural Midwestern state, and have seen huge expensive trucks outside of a tiny home in terrible condition. Their truck is probably equally expensive as their home. It's sucking all of their income and driving them into poverty.
Also near me, there was a billboard advertisement that said simply, "YOU NEED A TRUCK" with a picture of one of these monsters. I see people driving them around hauling nothing. It's about 30% of the vehicles on the road. It's a culture I will never understand.
Also near me, there was a billboard advertisement that said simply, “YOU NEED A TRUCK” with a picture of one of these monsters.
Superliminal advertising
I don't get the problem here.
We just need some big ass bikes!
The year is 2050, Trump's dessicated husk is dictator-for-life due to Elon Musk's life extending technology.
Vehicles have steadily gotten larger to meet supposed consumer demand. The smallest "compact" sedans require a 4 foot step ladder to enter.
Bicycles are now at least 500 pounds of solid steel. The tires cost $250 each due to their enormous size and thickness.
It is illegal to spend less than $1000 dollars on gas per month, and all homes are required to have a minimum of three garages.
a minimum of three garages.
Which are filled with useless crap because because the vehicles are too large to fit in them.
Imagine the gearing on a half tonne bicycle hahaha.
I like to think in this future, vehicles have also become wide enough they take up multiple of our current lanes as to not tip over by being tall as a house.
America's new best selling vehicle:
Bonus, the compact car of next century:
The infrastructure would be comical.
I can't go with the compact. What if I need to move?
This type of anxiety seems to be exclusive to north America. I live in Canada and never think about that because when i live somewhere i plan to stay there for a very long time, but i have heard people around me say they have a truck because "what if i need to move?" I don't hear that much from people in other parts of the world.
The infrastructure would be comical.
The infrastructure would be gone
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Just gonna keep on posting this
10 meter visibility is fucking insane. How is that not illegal.
Because when laws and policies are first made with the assumption people aren't assholes. We literally believed people will do the right thing.
All the addendums were to fix asshole behaviors.
Yeah you really gotta design your laws with the assumption that someone will try to abuse it in one way or another. You need to red-team your bills.
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But which one gets better mileage?
You can invade other countries with the tank and take their oil. Free Oil - Infinite Milage.
I actually wouldn't be too surprised if it was the tank.
It's not the tank. They get less than one mile per gallon.
Yeah, I never really expected it to be the tank.
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