What people online think I drive when I mention owning a pickup truck versus what I actually drive
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Ford Ranger 2004 vs 2024 is like Mario before and after mushroom.
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Unpopular opinion: unless you regularly haul things, you don't need a truck of any size. Unless you regularly go off-road or are transporting 5+ people and a dog or more, you don't need an SUV. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it! And in the meantime, you'll save gas money and pedestrian deaths will go down...
trailer for hauling and then own whatever you want for driving. Modern american trucks are just crossovers with a tiny, useless flatbed bought to appear country.
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Modern pickups are bad. Old pickups were fantastic for "I need to pile a bunch of (insert thing here) in the back."
But now every pickup is a massive motor for a tiny truckbed that my ford focus wagon has better hauling capacity.
the few local american pickups here in europe are only here because of appearances and do no off road or hauling.
The pickups that do hauling are exclusively japanese and they are all beat to shit cause they get used as designed. -
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One for hauling, towing, driving around offroad and onroad and basically doing everything in and the other for taking it to american car meets.
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Sorry that 'murican fattism has reached you
I don't mind. I'm a car guy myself, and I like them in all shapes and sizes. I'd probably drive one too if I lived in the US, but over here they're just way too big and impractical not to mention they stick out in traffic like a sore thumb and, quite frankly, make you look kind of like a douche.
It does make you a cunt by definition, since your modern stupid bright LED headlights shine STRAIGHT into the eyes and/or rear view mirror of everyone else.
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unless you regularly haul things, you don’t need a truck of any size. Unless you regularly go off-road or are transporting 5+ people and a dog or more, you don’t need an SUV. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it!
Maybe... but why not go further?
Unless you regularly transport more than 1 person, you don't need a car. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it!
Buy a motorcycle or bike instead?
Buy a motorcycle or bike instead?
No thanks, I choose life.
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That's how you know it's all for show. People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too. "Oh well I'm glad I have it for towing and moving". Bull. How often do you tow really? And even then I'd expect it to sit at home most of the time. Moving? Once a year. Rent a truck. I go to home Depot and rent theirs when I need it.
Buying a truck like that shows you are way too worried about what people think of you, you have to feel "big", which usually means you're a small man, and probably bad with money.
People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too.
Rented a big truck for my move. It was a bitch to drive, cost me 75bucks for 2 hrs (it has the 29.99 in-town advertising plastered on the side) and didn't fit more shit than a rental van of the same price.
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Fuck people who buy those big beasts, then can’t handle them for shit, and try to park as close to the front door as possible, fucki ng up parking for every other vehicle. Never even trying to park straight…ungh.
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People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too.
Rented a big truck for my move. It was a bitch to drive, cost me 75bucks for 2 hrs (it has the 29.99 in-town advertising plastered on the side) and didn't fit more shit than a rental van of the same price.
Honestly vans are so much better to move with. Can move so much more, and don't have to worry about the rain.
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I don't understand I maxed out my credit to buy this thing, drive and look like a douchebag and girls STILL avoid me?!?
Oh yeah, wrong vehicle. I am DROWNING in numbers with one of my vehicle types: motorcycles. Every time I ride somewhere, I get someone coming up. So many reasons. They used to have my bike model, they want a buddy to ride with, they have a meet coming up, they're doing a charity ride, they want photos, they... Wait you said girls didn't you. Shit.
Girls? They come out when the 2 door Geo Tracker comes out with the roof off.
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It does make you a cunt by definition, since your modern stupid bright LED headlights shine STRAIGHT into the eyes and/or rear view mirror of everyone else.
They're H4 halogens and I can assure you they're not blinding anyone thru those fogged up headlight lenses.
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Put a Ford Focus behind it to show what people actually need.
Shouldn't generalize like that. People with a legitimate need to space for hauling cargo exists.
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If you haul anything pickup trucks are laughably bad to do so.
How so? Hauls my tools and supplies around the town just fine.
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Shouldn't generalize like that. People with a legitimate need to space for hauling cargo exists.
Agreed but considering how bed sizes haven't changed but the rest of the trucks tripled in size his point isn't too far off the mark
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They're H4 halogens and I can assure you they're not blinding anyone thru those fogged up headlight lenses.
Headlights are literally placed at exact height of a rear view mirror and eye height of many cars. Even incandescent will blind.
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Headlights are literally placed at exact height of a rear view mirror and eye height of many cars. Even incandescent will blind.
You're talking about the Dodge? In that case you're correct.
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You're talking about the Dodge? In that case you're correct.
Of course the dodge, that nee-san is fine.
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unless you regularly haul things, you don’t need a truck of any size. Unless you regularly go off-road or are transporting 5+ people and a dog or more, you don’t need an SUV. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it!
Maybe... but why not go further?
Unless you regularly transport more than 1 person, you don't need a car. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it!
Buy a motorcycle or bike instead?
I would absolutely own a bike instead of a small car if I was the only one on the road. I just don't trust other drivers enough to do it.
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the few local american pickups here in europe are only here because of appearances and do no off road or hauling.
The pickups that do hauling are exclusively japanese and they are all beat to shit cause they get used as designed.Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh if we were allowed to have the Toyota Hilux here I'd buy one immediately. Fucking closest to a truck I "like" is a Ford Maverick because it's a "smaller truck"...
But they ONLY come in crew cab. For fucks sake I want a standard cab full size small pickup truck about the size of a HIlux or a ranger from the 90s. And frankly if they made one a hybrid I'd have a dream car, but hell I'd take a 4 cylinder. But nope. Around here they're the shortest fucking bed for the biggest fucking motor that's effectively an SUV that is somehow MORE useless because the wall between the bed and the cab means I can't lay seats down. A fucking mini-van is a better truck in the US.
I apologize... this is an angry angry rant I have to do like once every other week...
