Wasn't sure which comm to post this in.
I've been saying for years that almost no one needs a full size pickup truck. Half the people I know who drive them are just commuting and never haul any cargo.
You say that but where would I put the DshK that I'd use to ward off the 30-50 feral imperialists that run into my country within 3-5 minutes while my kids play?
i live in a pretty rural area and i just want a cheap, small pickup so i can get loads of dirt or mulch or wood or bulky stuff my tiny car can't fit not for regular driving just a utility vehicle
yessss. my dad has an old frontier (90s back when they were tiny) and it still runs great with like 200k miles. he will never let it go
hmm i just checked it out and i'm like "needs les cab, more bed". i do a good bit of work on my own vehicles so that's def the only thing that's kept me sketched about hybrids. learning to tinker with hondas was hard enough when i grew up with dodges and chevys
There are non-hybrid versions of the Ford Maverick available. I think the base model is a hybrid though
Owning a truck the size of a WWII Sherman tank serves no practical purpose and makes you look fucking ridiculous
I would prefer to simply own the Sherman tank
One of my life goals is now to own a tank (maybe collectively? the People's Tank. yeah) and use that tank to lightly crunch SUVs and pickup trucks on the roadways.
I’ve said this before, but car dealerships do not sell cars, they sell debt with a car attached.
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I rely on a glut of cheap used former commuter pickups to survive. If you need a pickup to make your money, having a working pickup is one of the most important things in your life.
Haven't read the thread but I bet there's at least one person who has a giant truck and is explaining why they need it for work or whatever.
Edit: yup, I was right
Like 2/3rds of my coworkers drive pickups to work, with about half of those trucks being the heavy-duty type of trucks meant for pretty serious work/hauling. I doubt more than one or two of them actually use the trucks for truck stuff, just based on the lack of dings/scratches/dirt. It's pointless excess just to be the guy with the biggest thing on the road.
At most, they'll tow a boat a few times a year. The other 350+ days it's useless.
Same. A bunch have the off-road options on their very clean trucks, just in case they decide to take up off-roading in the future.
I use my truck to haul, tow, and go off road weekly. Guess I'm weird.
You are weird because most truck owners do fuck all wit them. You're the rare exception that actually has a reason to own one
Oh yeah. I get it. No offense. I bought a truck to do truck things, not to look cool in a truck. In fact, I kind of hate them.
Agreed. I bought it as effectively a "tow vehicle" for various heavy functions and never dreamed I would find so much utility in it. Everything from hauling machinery to moving furniture to multiple trips to the dump. Bought a used travel trailer and now I pretty much exclusively vacation with it because camping/boondocking is still affordable.
Like I said, I use it for what it's intended for on a daily/weekly basis. I never owned a truck before this, nor did I want one.
My friend drives a massive pickup to his white collar job but I forgive him because he was a construction contractor for twenty years - driving a stupid big truck is all he knows.
Everytime I see a truck ad i just think who falls for this?
Like them seem like a parody mocking insecure men.
They've been like that for a least 30 years too. They haven't even had to change their marketing.
They're not buying a machine or a transportation method, they're buying an ideological signifier.
This video really helped contextualize the wave of SUV attacks during BLM. I remember at least three people tried to run me over last year.
Yupp, this rings true to me. I work electrical construction, and work vans are superiors to trucks in most ways for day-to-day work. Trucks are better for towing large trailers and equipment, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a job for the owner of the large equipment; its far more cost effective for the type of work I do to rent, and just get any equipment delivered and picked up.
Only reason we have a pickup truck is because we chop wood.
If we didn't need wood for heat for the winter we would have bought a station wagon.
Station wagons fucking own. Best vehicle I've ever toured in. Barely cramped at all and driving vans on a highway for 2 weeks pretty much straight usually doesn't work for them and rear windows are really cool to have as well
Damn, I pretty much don't see them anymore. I remember station wagons being the standard large family car in the 90s
Oh yeah, they barely exist now. This was over ten years ago and we were stoked to find it. Was way easier on gas and I think made it through two tours before being junk. That's like a solid month of almost straight driving so you basically just get something for as cheap as possible and hope you can ride it to the end.
We would only have a station wagon if we did not have to haul stuff with creepy crawlies like wood. Our other vehicle is an Outback.
Having a centipede crawl on my face while driving switchbacks in the Cascade mountains would probably be the end of me.
Some have closed off storage, but they're hard enough to find let alone a specific kind.
I miss small pickups like the ranger. I used to have a toyota delux or whatever it was called. Great little shitty 80s pickup. Helped a bunch of comrades moved with it. I could fit a whole mortorcycle in back despite it being shorter than I am standing. Got pretty good mileage to.
