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One of them is a tool, another one is driven by a tool.
Erin O’Toole nods in agreement
is driven by a fool.
The comparison is kinda unfair. The big truck has a wider bed, bigger tires and more power. It also seats more people. So it is able to get more load through more difficult terrain. However we can be quite sure it won’t be used in that way.
I’ve never seen one with wear and tear and/or dirt that would indicate difficult terrain. Those only leave the city in advertisements.
There’s a few in the country around here. The ones with dirt on them are almost exclusively the Toyota Hilux, though
up to but not including 7th gen hilux is more in line with what I would consider a reasonable truck design. I’d give them a pass before 2004 or so. The bulbous round ones, if people actually use them off the streets then it probably won’t offend me to see them on the road but personally I’d just have a small car for day to day and only use the truck for what I bought it for, storage insurance when I don’t need it. I’m still too scared of having my bike stolen to commit to no car it turns out. Some places are just too sketchy.
Are you around forestry, oil drilling, or similar sites? Obv most are fleet stock simple (with decent tires), but the 4 door, white truck with a V8 is ubiquitous when you need 4 grouchy dudes to effectively live out of it for a whole day, plus all their equipment and food. It’s hilarious how much shit these trucks hold and get anywhere with a 2 track
that only happens when actual working people buy it used, maybe a decade down the line, to do actual work.
Lol that almost done like a chindogu ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindōgu )
In a way I almost prefer that to the blatant posers I see driving around with huge lifts and offroad tires looking spotless in our muddy season out here. I was at the combo laundromat/carwash the other day watching one of them wash an already clean truck while I was thinking about the massive mud puddle I’d be driving through to get home.
My brother in law has a truck like the one on the right. That backseat area is huge. You could stop and have a picnic back there during a road trip.
I can’t imagine owing it. It looks dumb to me and it’s far too big for normal use. But he’s a cross country hauler, so it’s not a big truck to him.
And they have three kids, so I doubt he gives af about pp showmanship.
Yeah.
Sure, most people with a big truck don’t need one.
That said, the capabilities of the bigger truck far exceed that of the Suzuki.
The majority of trucks i see are driven by a guy in a perfectly clean dress shirt, carries a fancy bag for papers and they work an office job. Their justification is often something along a couple potholes on their rural road just outside of town (so they dont have to pay as much property taxes to fit potholes). They moved a fridge once for their kid 5 years ago so that paid for the truck in their mind.
The majority of these things are ego boosts. Hence why they tailgate, rollcoal, have loud exhausts and can be covered in sexist/racist/religious stickers. Its all about look at me for most of these trucks.
Amazing.
I’m not defending any of these people.
My point is, the two vehicles pictured have dramatically different capabilities.
I have yet to see a big truck carrying more than a ton of things, and I’m near home depot often. These trucks are capable of 800lb which should be fine for most people. I’d love a vehicle where if I found something I liked I could pick it up while still being a viable economical daily driver.
Do you live in an urban area?
I did say most people don’t need one.
How did society even function without these big ass trucks. They are so capable and essenti.
The one on the left is used by people who need to carry things. The one of the right is used by losers.
Left one carries stuff, right one carries fragile egoes
What about people who need extra room for a child’s car seat (they’re huge nowadays) and also need to carry stuff the way a truck does?
Edit: I live out in the country and I’m in need of a pickup for carrying loads of stuff. Putting it in the back of my Ford Edge is highly inconvenient as it doesn’t fit in one load and messed up the interior (the sides of the trunk are scratched to hell now.
And my point was simply that there are entirely legitimate uses for a pickup truck. 98% of people don’t have a legitimate use case, but that didn’t mean no one does.
What are you carrying around all day with your child that doesn’t fit in a minivan?
Or just a regular car
seriously, americans are fucking delusional with what the requirements of life are, 90% of the rest of the world does just fine with regular-sized cars.
But where will I put my fridge when I move every 3 years for my job?🥺
I live out in the country. We don’t get garbage pickup. The garbage dump is very close to my child’s daycare. It’s 20 minutes away. It’s open from 8am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday. I either bring the garbage with me when I go to daycare, or I have to schedule time off from work to take out garbage.
I have a Ford Edge, so no, a minivan wouldn’t work. To be clear, it’s not impossible. But a truck would be 10x more convenient.
Thats a reasonable use case for a truck. The majority of hate I have for trucks are for more city based people who claim they totally need it when they maybe move something 2-3 times a year.
That said, a small trailer could probably handle your garbage behind an SUV or capable car. Although it would still require more parking than the truck so the benefits overall are arguable.
This obviously varies based on where you live, but using a trailer where I’m at incurs a ton of extra costs: *Landfill charges extra when using a trailer to bring your trash. *Tollway charges extra for the trailer *State charges annual property tax on the trailer Granted, I have an ‘04 regular cab Chevy Colorado (before they started making them as huge as half tons of years past), but I’m dreading the day it dies. There are no small pickups available anymore (Santa Few and Maverick’s 4.5’ bed is worthless for my use case).
I think this argument is a losing battle on this community. It’s clear there is no room for nuance or reason.
You could do what you want for cheaper, and with less impact on the environment. Thats a fact. Thats where you are finding dispute.
A trailer isn’t out of the question, it just adds a whole new level of inconvenience. It’s extra time to move the car, hook up the trailer, verify the electrical is working (I always check left-right-breaks-4way whenever I connect a trailer), then parking the trailer, disconnecting it, then parking the car. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but that time quickly adds up, and it can get 35+ in the summers and -30 in the winters (Celsius). When getting the kid ready to leave for daycare it’s easier to load up in the relatively comfortable garage. I know that’s a first world problem, but a truck would just simply all of that.
To be clear, I’m not getting a truck because they’re as expensive as a sports car now, but the point stands.
Yes you like the convenience of it. Noones saying they aren’t convenient. Its not only about your personal convenience, because cars affect everyone nearby.
Theres a reason they cost so much, and will continue to raise as the price gets closer to its actual cost to create and use one.
And I know you know this, because you ended the post saying that if you didnt have the truck now, you wouldn’t buy another one. Have you actually thought this through or is it just some automatic cognitive dissonance reaction from owning a truck?
you ended the post saying that if you didnt have the truck now, you wouldn’t buy another one
Have you actually thought this through or is it just some automatic cognitive dissonance reaction from owning a truck?
I think it has more to do with your reading comprehension and thinking I said anywhere that I own a truck.
How size of your truck is compared to Lada Granta? Because my grandparents drove it with driver + 3 adults + child me + stuff including garbage from dacha.
Well, for one, I don’t have a truck. Too expensive.
Second, child care seats in North America were revised recently to be larger so that they can protect children better.
To put it in context, putting a child seat in my 2013 Jetta makes it so that the front passenger can barely fit. Anyone over 5’ 6" has to srunch their legs to fit.
The Jetta claim is weird because I fit a 6’ adult comfortably in the passenger seat of my GTI with the car seat in the back.
How big is your car seat?
And a flat trailer for your Ford would be even more convenient
You live out in the country, you clearly didn’t grow up in the country.
I grew up in the country, we had a truck with a full sized bed and a bench. You put the baby seat in the middle of the bench, strap it down like you do in the car and a lap belt and you pick up your chicken feed with your kid in the truck. Ain’t rocket science here and you don’t need to have a crew cab and a worthless short bed to do things out there.
Shit dude, if you’re worried about scratches to your vehicle, maybe you should move back to the suburbs.
But I don’t have a truck.
if you’re worried about scratches to your vehicle,
I said “mess up the interior” with “leaky garage bags”. But yes, the inside is scuffed also.
maybe you should move back to the suburbs.
Thanks for gatekeeping where I live, you clearly know everything about me.
WTF do you expect when you post anonymously about “needing” a gigantic truck with a extended cab and a tiny worthless truck bed because you have a kid in a car seat and don’t have the sense to know that if you actually grew up in the country, you’d damn well know you can strap in a car set in on a truck bench.
And here’s another judgement, it’s a pretty piss poor excuse for trying to justify “needing” once again a huge, wasteful, dumb short bed truck because you have a car seat and have a want to haul a few bags of trash. Ever heard of double bagging? Or a trailer? Or if you did grow up in the country, a burn barrel?
You’re right that I don’t know everything about you, I only know what you share on a anonymous social media board, and what I have read so far, you sure do sound like one of those suburban transplants wasting good farmland.
do you expect when you post anonymously about “needing” a gigantic truck with a extended cab
I never said “need” once.
Ever heard of double bagging?
Cause THAT’S environmentally friendly.
Or a trailer?
A bunch of assumptions there.
a burn barrel?
LMAO, that’d be a helluva fast way to get fined around here. I’m in the “country”, but it’s not in the middle of nowhere. It’s a neighborhood built just a bit out from a small town of 5000 people. It’s “country”, but kind of isn’t at the same time. I have to register with the county each time I want to have a fire in the fire pit. And burning garbage is a fast way to get in crap. And not to mention monumentally stupid.
Pretty sad that you feel you have to put so much effort and so many words to justify why you shouldn’t be a suburbanite like you should be.
What is “carrying stuff the way a truck does”? No offense, I really do not understand
Well, I can’t shove drywall, leaking smelly garbage, construction scrap, etc into a Ford Edge without seriously messing up the inside. So that kind of way.
Why would you need to shove it IN car, when you can carry it ON car?
What an absolutely bonkers suggestion. Do you legitimately think this solves the problem?
If someone actually did this, strapped drywall, leaking garbage bags, and other random garbage on top of their vehicle, there would be a post on here so fucking fast calling the driver a moron.
To get a roof rack installed on my car would be over $1000. I checked.
would be over $1000.
How?
on my car
Although maybe your car doesn’t have rack mounts from factory. For lada it’s about 20€ and tightening few bolts.
You can’t make this argument while also stating in other comments that a truck is too expensive.
I’m not arguing that. You have a fair point.
But my argument about a use case for a truck isn’t about MY truck (I don’t have one), it was merely about the valid use for owning a truck.
I’m getting by right now by wrecking the inside of my car (it’s already done). I looked at getting a roof rack, but the quote I got was around $1400. But that only would help with getting new drywall. Not broken up garbage drywall, and wouldn’t help with bags of garbage.
How’d they get someone pregnant with that medically diagnosed micropenis?
Wow you’re soooo cool. I bet everyone is always really happy when you talk
Sounds like I hit a sensitive spot in a way big truck guy only wishes he could.
You could have made fun of them without bodyshaming
Be better
Lol. This isn’t an insult to me the way you want it to be.
Good. I wasn’t trying to insult you.
A tax on vehicle axle weight proportional to the damage done to roads (which goes up exponentially with weight).
Vehicle fee based on some combination of size, weight, and miles driven would be the fairest.
Miles driven is just taken care of in fuel taxes. Sales tax on size, yearly tax based on weightwould be perfect I think.
Yes, something that attempts to assess cost proportional to impact
EVs break this.
Happens many places in Europe already.
I drove pickup trucks for years. Most people probably don’t realize is how much higher the operating cost is compared to smaller vehicles, even if they know that it’s generally higher. The first hybrid I bought was a Prius about a decade ago and when I finally looked at the difference in the cost of fuel and maintenance, it was not insignificant.
There’s plenty of legit reasons to need a pickup but outside of that, you’re just throwing your money away. Nowadays our Sienna Hybrid minivan has a hitch receiver on it so I can hook the trailer up to it if I need to haul something big. I haven’t needed a truck in a long time.
That’s a real man’s truck. Air conditioned, soft suspension, big boi so scary big truck don’t scare, brightest lights because corners scary, 4 seats cos wife is scary, big tyres because tools are scary, big tank because human interaction is scary.
The thought of someone getting a 4 seater truck purely because they are so terrified of their own wife that he only feels safe when she is in the back seat of a car
That’s what it’s like to drive a Ford F150
If you’re worried about making the cab bigger and comfier, you don’t need a truck.
There are no arguments to this and no one has a point against me here. If cab space is the concern, you need a minivan or SUV.
Blanket statement with impunity incoming. Combining these vehicles is a bad idea. For safety and efficiency. If you think this is a good idea in any possible way, you’re simply incorrect.
You’re just buying an SUV with a truck bed attached because your little balls say you want a “manly” vehicle.
You wouldn’t put a hitch on a moped. Don’t put a bed on a SUV.
Extending the length of a vehicle past the point where a hitch makes it longer than a parking space should be a “first offense your company is due down immediately” kind of offense first of all. The amount of these hitches blocking sidewalks and handicap accessibility spaces is absolutely bonkers.
Why don’t we have a president type of office that doesn’t mess with politics or international affairs, they just have nationwide power for common sense stuff like banning pickups simply being used as passenger vehicles, curbing attempts to overgrow parking spaces, and probably a bunch of other stuff too.
Also, I have a great idea for a whole new tax. :)
Let’s make an industry out of dining these people to the point where only businesses use trucks. Regular people can rent them easily enough to move between apartments or what have you, but these should never have been general use daily drivers.
Let’s just crush and compact the entire pickup truck industry to an incredibly tiny fraction of what it is now.
Trailers are great! You can tow with minivans, cars, suvs and trucks. Trailers typically are easier to load, have more capacity and can be a lot longer than a truck bed.
Contractors get most of their building supplies delivered by flat bed trucks anyways.
You are definitely wrong, there is a market for it. It’s clearly not as big as it currently is, but there are absolutely people that families and work some sort of construction or farming job where a truck is necessary, and carrying more than 3 people comfortably is also necessary. And two vehicles is also not feasible.
That market is astronomically smaller than the amount of these large pickups with huge cabs being sold.
Yes, that’s what I said. Doesn’t change the fact that the market does in fact exist, unlike the comment I replied to was claiming.
I mean, fuck, I own a bar and need a pickup truck simply because how else am I gonna return 250 empty cases of beer to recycling? I ain’t putting that smell in an enclosed van and if I got an open trailer, I’d need a truck to tow it anyways. (I actually do have a van, I use it in winter and rainy days for picking up full beer cases, doesn’t have near the weight capacity of the truck although using the same motor and getting similar mileage)
Okay…so you need a truck to haul beer cans. What’s wrong with the simple low-profile one for that job?
The criticism is on freak hybrid SUV-trucks.
Do you know how much 250 empty cases of 24 bottles weighs? Its a lot more than the little one can hold. I had to construct 2x4 stake panels up to the height of the roof as it was with a full size long bed, in order to avoid making 3 trips (twenty miles to the depot), and it would take five with that little truck that can’t even hit highway speed. It also can’t tow my fifth wheel camper. (From 1983, before I get the rich person problems accusation. I ain’t rich, I’m rural and handy enough buy old shit cheap)
Nope sorry, you actually don’t exist. OP says it’s impossible for someone to need a truck.
So without the pickup truck, you’d still be able to do it with an alternative.
No. Read it again.
What do you think construction workers in the rest of the world do?
Lorries with heavy capacity. Trucks of a different design but similar capacities.
When I had to buy a truck I didn’t really care that the A/C and radio didn’t work. I didn’t care that the interior was stained and uncomfortable. I didn’t care that the ride was rough and noisy. I didn’t even care that much that it got bad gas mileage, as I wouldn’t be driving it much.
I needed a truck for truck stuff. I’m not gonna buy a truck with a leather interior when I’m normally covered in dirt when I’m using it. I don’t need it to look big and manly because I just need it to haul garbage and tow livestock trailers. And I definitely don’t want to pay $70,000 for something I’m going to use it offroad.
While I absolutely despise the rise of dumbass suburban cowboys, making it to require a business to own one is kind of stupid. I mean growing up in farm land, you do often need a truck to do things like grab manure or lime, picking up feed, or the occasional carcass.
You could tax based on vehicle weight and vehicle type instead of a stupid, outdated gas tax and that could actually put a curb on this type of dumbass penis extender behavior. Maybe lesson it depending on where you’re registering it, farmland zoned and registered under gets less tax but I honestly think that unless you fix the stupid bro country, wanna be cowboy culture that leads to this suburban cowboy dumbfuckery, you’re honestly not going to make much of a dent even with taxes.
While I would be in favor of making vehicle sizes regulated we already have that but thanks to the requirement of dealerships and the lobbying from the big 3 tmcars here in America have minimum sizes rather than maximum sizes so if anything I believe it to be more ideal to break regulations so cheap affordable cars can finally be legal to build, sell and import
We had a quad cab Nissan Navarra (Frontier) working forestry. Four guys in the cab. Saws, petrol, oil, gear, tools, wire and fence posts in the bed. Fantastic vehicle, got everywhere. Could haul serious weight when needed. It was a tool that became a battered jalopy. We’d leave it in the yard every night. I’d take the train home, my mate cycled and the other two guys somehow squeezed into a Smart car as they shared a lift. We were all insured to drive it on public roads 24/7 but none of us saw the point. Great vehicle in its arena but a hindrance and inconvenience outside of it.
In addition, suvs are also unnecessary and unneeded.
You want a cross country vehicle? Get a jeep or a Suzuki samurai or a Unimog. You want to flaunt your wealth and show everyone how big you are on the road? Buy a tram company and lobby your city to install it. If you can’t do that, you’re not wealthy enough and have no right to flex.
I agree about SUVs actually, but that’s a different argument. That one is more opinionated, whereas I can’t even fathom this ones being arguable.
Good old jeeps. Same mileage as a pickup truck with no load capacity.
It’s a hatch back with a strapon.
For manly men.
The pp size is inversely proportional to the truck size.
that’s why I ride a bike.
I could get away with a unicycle if it weren’t for my MASSIVE SCHLONG requiring support and it’s easier that way than getting two unis.
I suppose you are using a lady bike then so there’s more space for the schlong?
No I have a sheat for the schlong on the horizontal bar of the frame
This guy bikes.
Ironically with a woman’s bike IRL
What is lady bike?
Traditionally bikes for women had the horizontal stabilizing bar much lower probably to account for dresses and the like, but the differences has been slightly washed out over the years.
I’m picturing the two unicycle method illustrated in the style of Dr Seuss
I prefer walking, and use a bicycle when it’s possible. So sadly doesn’t check out.
Bicycle size isn’t zero, you you pp size isn’t infinity. It does check out.
The bed on the left probably gets used more.
One of them tows 12000 and can get on the highway and not die. The other has a payload capacity of 1500lbs.
What a dumb comparison. I own a Kei.
Except the people who own the monster trucks never carry more than 1500 lbs and rarely take it on the highway.
Except the people who own the monster trucks never carry more than 1500 lbs and rarely take it on the highway.
All of them? Like every single one?
A little off the topic, but sometimes I wonder if driving a rally car with a cage, 5 point seatbelts and a helmet will be more safe on a highway. Like it seems to me that it is safer, but will it actually be?
It’d be safer, but it wouldn’t be very comfortable. Rally cars have very barebones interiors to cut down on weight. You’d also need different tires and tuning.
It would be better able to handle a severe crash, but pretty inconvenient and pointless.
You can put a full and spec cage, bucket seats, and a 5 point harness in any car. You don’t need to go full racecar and take the interior out. You would need to wear a helmet, Hans device, and the full 5-point every time you drive the car because an otherwise survivable accident could kill you. You would also probably want a fire suppression system because a fire in a damaged car may not be escapable after you get hit without help.
You would be giving up airbags and visibility. Airbags can save you as much as a cage could. Visibility could prevent the accident in the first place. The cage and whatnot wouldn’t save you from a catastrophic wreck, but a serious accident would be more survivable.
You might as well just not drive on the highway or don’t get in a car at all if you are so concerned about your safety. Don’t want a baby, use protection. Terrified about having a baby and don’t think that protection is adequate, get sterilized or don’t fuck.
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A lot of people who buy trucks these days just need something that can tow a travel trailer or a boat to their favorite camp site a few times a year. It’s not that they need a truck on a day to day basis, but they might need the towing capability on occasion. That’s why these trucks are a weird combination of luxury sedan (with their leather seats and high end interiors) and pickup truck. Most of the time they use it like a regular car, but sometimes they might need the towing capability.
If it’s a “few times a year” situation that really seems better suited to renting.
Rental companies, at least in America, have policies against using their vehicles to tow things.
In addition the truck in front has to be imported to the US and there’s weird regulations about purchasing them so you can only buy used. As far as I know you can’t import a new model. If a car is newer than 25 years old it can not be imported unless it meets the requirements of US Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/importing-vehicle/importation-and-certification-faqs
These all sound like regulatory, issues. Nothing that can’t be fixed with a minimal amount of political goodwill.
I think it is regulatory. However getting US politicians to do what’s right is never trivial. It would take the legislative branch to change the regulations, while likely ignoring lobbyists within the automotive industry. It’s fixable but it won’t be fixed.
Part of the issue there is that for a large number of people the ‘few times a year’ are major holidays when everybody else wants to tow their house-sized RV and boat to the lake for a day or two. The rental fleet just isn’t big enough to service the surge demand.
Or maybe they’ve got the money
Pff my fckn subi can do that and fit in a standard car park
Your Subi wouldn’t be able to pull some of these American travel trailers. Many of them are absolutely massive, they’re like a luxury condo on wheels.
We have no sense of reasonable proportion here in the US. Everything must be unnecessarily large and unwieldy, gaudy and exorbitant. Bigger is always better here in the good 'ol US of A.
Excess pleases Slaanesh
some of these American travel trailers
Can’t forget the boat! For reference, while this isn’t typical, it’s not uncommon. That’s a pretty small travel trailer and boat. I’ve seen this setup with much bigger trailers and boats several times.
Not uncommon at all. My cousin had a giant fifth wheel, and he would often pull his four wheelers behind it.
Literally planning to buy a truck for when I need it and I’d still make it a daily driver if needed.
If it’s an actual work truck, that backseat is filled with tools that you can’t have out on the bed. I do doubt it’s a work truck though.
Hence why most smart labourers and contractors use a cargo van. No pesky seats blocking access and taking up space. Lots of customizeable room in the back for storage and shelves. Tall vans you can even walk inside and use a workbench. Many vans also have a decent towing capacity. Bed height is typically lower on a van, making heavier items easier to load. A lot of the same items people typically fit in truck beds can fit in the back of the van with the added benefits of being out of sight of thieves, being protected from weather and dirt, possibly even being heated or cooled if required.
Stop using logic, can’t you see how great muh cyber truk is?!¿‽
Cargo van: UAZ Loaf
Kei trucks feel like they’d be a perfect alternative to a gator. They appear to be cheaper too even considering importation.
It’s not like the beds are the same size. Length sure, but don’t you know that girth is what mattera for your dick replacements?
Not including the wheel well the Isuzu should be about 47 in. The F-150 is about 42. Including the wheel well it’s like 50 on the Isuzu and 52 on the F-150. The Isuzu will have more usable bed space and the wheel wells don’t go up very far so they’re pretty usable going like 2 inches up.
Sure, sure, but that ruins the joke.
iirc, the sides of the also flip down, so you can haul even wider loads if you need too…
If I had to buy a pickup truck I’d buy a Suzuki Carry and call it a day
