Didn't know what com to post this on. How much bigger can trucks even get before they become impossible to operate on normal streets?
A widespread street expanding initiative is likely to happen before any reduction in the number or size of the car treats. :grillman:
I wish it were possible to buy a small pickup that isn't 25 years old
doesn't Japan still make small trucks? i see them semi-regularly on the roads
last time I looked into it importing them was a huge pain in the ass (plus they have the steering wheel on the other side)
People are selling kei trucks everywhere. For about 12k a pop. Just keep in mind that usa wise these things are pretty useless. The pay load on kei trucks are 400-700#.
Single cabs are dead. Ford ain't even be making them in the future. It's an extremely small niche that is into them. Most want ext or crew cabs.
Soon they will make forward facing bumper cameras mandatory.
When suvs had nearly entirely replaced cars in the US, and they became too bloated to see out of the back, instead of addressing the bloat they just made backup cams mandatory. There isn't any proposal to do this that I know of, but it matches past behavior of regulators in the US.
this is a slippery slope to the "urban commute vehicle" with no windows, omnidirectional navigation cams, lidar support, roof hatch access, gun slits and mounts, total curb weight 5 tons, city mpg of 2.
I feel bad for the dude who just lost a car that is pretty much irreplaceable these days. Meanwhile that woman looks like she just wants to pin this on this dude who probably came out of the store to see his car destroyed by the worst kind of truck driver.
Don’t these losers realize that vehicles meant for actually hauling things brag about being low to the ground? I’m constantly seeing Uhaul ads about how their trucks are the lowest to make loading as easy as possible.
But also no truck like this has ever had anything meaningful in the bed.
I grew up in a town where people went mudding all the time and they mostly did it in Jeeps like normal people. The people who could afford trucks like that would never dare get mud on them. The most they’d use it for is to haul their fucking pontoon boat.
It's not an off of roaading fetish.
Its all purely an aesthetic based car culture.
No function just form. Mall crawler bros are all just fancy lads who are really into dressing their truck up to be the most gawdy visible thing in the area.
To drive a pickup truck you should have to take a special class and test like getting a motorcycle license, and that test should involve having to park a gigantic pickup truck in a compact car parking space between two columns in a garage, and if you’re an inch over the line you never get to drive one again.
SUVs should simply be banned outright as they have no actual purpose. You just need a minivan but don’t think they’re manly enough.
and that test should involve having to park a gigantic pickup truck in a compact car parking space between two columns in a garage, and if you’re an inch over the line you never get to drive one again.
If you scrape the paint you aint... getting your big truck license.
To drive a pickup truck you should have to take a special class and test like getting a motorcycle license
As another commenter in another post said, these big trucks should be classified where you require a CDL to drive
I'm trying to make drempel a thing that people on hexbear say, i just love that word
RIP Pontiac Firebird, you were driven to extinction by the invisible hand
I blame LBJ for starting the trend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Imagine initiating a trade war with your own client states.
