What people online think I drive when I mention owning a pickup truck versus what I actually drive
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This is a shitty reductio ad absurdum because most people live in a place that rain exists and renting a car every time it rained would definitely cost you more than you would save from not paying for car gas even if it only rained once a month.
You're a shitty reductio ad absurdum, my kid and I live in England where rain was invented and I do fine without a car.
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This is a shitty reductio ad absurdum because most people live in a place that rain exists and renting a car every time it rained would definitely cost you more than you would save from not paying for car gas even if it only rained once a month.
For more than a decade I only rode a motorcycle in Florida. I even made trips - with a passenger - to Costco. It required plenty of straps and saddlebags and a big backpack, but it was doable to get groceries in it for two people.
This was on a Triumph Scrambler, and I had added a luggage rack etc, so not something you could do easily on a stock sport bike, but you don't need a big touring bike for this kind of living, either.
The times I needed to haul something big, I rented a truck from a big box hardware store. Saved a ton of money over the years, and only now have a Prius (with a roof rack to haul stuff) because I live in a place with harsh winters. No sidecar yet, but thinking hard about it...
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The TELO Truck looks promising, I just wish any of the people showcasing it asked the CEO about the data it collects and their privacy policy.
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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'm 3yrs into having done this, and it only works because my wife has a car so really we only got rid of the 2nd car so doesn't count.
I think it's a really valid proposal for 2nd cars but even then only if you're not needing to transport kids at multiple times
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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.
