What people online think I drive when I mention owning a pickup truck versus what I actually drive
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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...
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My friend has a dodge ram. When his girlfriend left him, he moved out and i helped him move. I asked if i should bring my bus that i use for work. He said nah, DODgE RAM. We drove 4 times just to move his sofa and his side table. Piece by piece. All of his stuff would've fit in my bus and maybe something on his pickup. And my bus was still a bit shorter, because he couldn't fit on his new parking spot, but i did.
Pretty much this. Like I said about my Focus, I've straight up driven with 2x4s that wouldn't fit in coworkers trucks because the 4 foot bed is useless for that and I could fold seats down.
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Everyone should get a Honda Element.
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Station wagons are for mommies in the 1980s; all the cool kids want SUV and pickups.
So car manufacturers made station wagons with upright seating positions and “off road” styling and called them Crossovers.
In reality, they just couldn't reasonably add the same markup, so they shifted to other products. Also, fuel efficiency standards based on weight made it more profitable to sell larger vehicles, so they had another reason to shift. We really got fucked from every side.
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Just throwing it out there that rain gear exists and you can 100 percent ride a motorcycle or a bicycle when it's raining. I think everyone would be a better driver if they had to experience getting somewhere on two wheels.
Hell, a motorcycle can generate enough electricity to power heated clothing to keep you warm even during New England winters. If there's no ice on the road I'm riding my motorcycle to work!
(This is our asshole; I hope that counts)
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If I remember correctly; around 2% of the cars sold in the US were wagons and of that, like 1.5% were Subarus.
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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.
I haul shit home two or three times a week, nothing to do with work.
Hell, today picked up a nice mower (free) to fix to fix and use or sell. Also found a cool wooden chair my wife likes for her campsite.
Hauled cull wood from the store to my camp for building stuff last Saturday. Had it not been raining, I was going to take my kayak or canoe to the water today.
You don't know me or how I live. Could you be any more judgey?
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All absolutely valid points and my only counter argument here is that is why wagon sedans exist. Growing up in Poland a wagon was the family hauler bringing all the stuff you mentioned to pretty much anywhere you need. People even haul rvs with the wagons and you’re still smaller and relatively more pedestrian friendly. Hell they even make performance cars in wagon spec like the bmw m3. Not saying that to discredit your point just that there was another option before the suv craze came about
Oh man, I really wanted a wagon, but being in Canada the only one available that wasn’t a $90k+ Volvo/mercedes/Audi was a Subaru Outback and I absolutely hated the infotainment system in it. I hate not having physical buttons. So we ended up getting a small suv. I really wish they’d bring over some of the wagon options Europe has.
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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.
I disagree. I have a modern American half ton diesel pickup. It’s not a crossover. I’m not in construction or maintenance, I work in tech.
I have four horses and a gooseneck trailer for the horses that the truck hauls once or twice a week.
I also have a flatbed for hauling hay or moving the tractor.For literally everything else i have a small car, because that truck is awful to drive in traffic or urban areas.
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I haul shit home two or three times a week, nothing to do with work.
Hell, today picked up a nice mower (free) to fix to fix and use or sell. Also found a cool wooden chair my wife likes for her campsite.
Hauled cull wood from the store to my camp for building stuff last Saturday. Had it not been raining, I was going to take my kayak or canoe to the water today.
You don't know me or how I live. Could you be any more judgey?
Yes I could, because you use your truck, so I'm glad. You are one of the few. The vast majority of truck owners would do one of those things maybe once a month, and that's wasteful and posturing.
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Put a Ford Focus behind it to show what people actually need.
Too bad the gov blocks smaller pickups from being imported. Practical sized vehicles.
