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I have a truck and I'll mention some uses for it since most people here seem ignorant. I use it for the following multiple times a month.
There's a lot of hate here and it seems misdirected.
Americans really love to act like 99% of those trucks aren't just used to haul someones ass to wallmart for some groceries
was just about to say, it can be cost effective if it makes sense for what you're using it for then it's not a bad investment.
I have a diesel truck which currently costs EIGHT dollars a gallon to fill up in California right now, and I use my truck for the following every day for the past six years:
I literally live in it.
No rent, no mortgage, no property taxes, no utilities payments because all my electricity comes from my roof solar panels, I can live anywhere I want, usually the ocean, sometimes Colorado mountains, sometimes Arizona desert which is lovely in the winter. All it costs is the same amount everyone else is paying for their own vehicle maintenance. Except it's the only expense I have ❤️
I’ve always said they try to compensate for something because I can’t for the life of me understand why’d you’d need a massive pickup truck and you live in the suburbs
I just want an electric 90s S-10/Ranger. Someone, just make that truck. I'm begging you. I'm so tired of these big boxy pieces of shit.
I want an electric minivan for under $50k is that too much to ask
They could probably out it on the same chassis as my thing.
I saw this god-tier gif of this trans woman in heels walk around a truck stop butt naked. That's what I want. I don't care if I get chopped up and put into a big boxy piece of shit. I want to be that woman in my dreams.
You know, when you tuck your balls into themselves, both these faces look like they're from the same person. Like different expressions, or some shit.
When the planet gets too hot for us to go outside, our dependence on motor vehicles will deepen that much more. But we'll need ways to interact with the world safely, so engineers will find ways to redesign cars and trucks into relatively almost affordable wheeled mecha. These Mechars will still put us into a lifetime of debt, but that's okay because the way people use their cars is already like a minihome, and so the mechars will continue that trend of essentially being our homes on wheels, complete with mortgage. We won't need houses, which is great cause they'll be demolished to make room for the charging stations for these mechars.
I can't get the imagery of countless mecha stuck in rush hour traffic out of my head.
this should be an anime. the image of mecha traffic jams especially.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I bought a used 2011 Tundra with 230k miles on it for $7k. It's the base model, bone stock except for replacing the broken radio and I use it to tow the RV I live in and transport my ebike that's the size of a moped or small motorcycle.
I'm also non-binary and stuck some cutesy cat stickers on my back window. 😂 The idea of spending over $50k on a truck is just insane. I found the original dealer window sticker in the glove box and mine sold for $21k new in 2011.
I live in Texas and pass these huge lifted trucks with the super wide-set tires and always wonder how they can even load anything into the bed. And if MY truck gets 17-18mpg on a good day, what is THEIR monstrosity getting? 😭
I just looked up the Toyota Tundra and it's still a large truck.
Funny sidenote, this week I saw a VW Eos pulling a caravan.
An Eos has a 1,500kg rated towing capacity. How big was the caravan? Seems kind of dangerous, but I've definitely seen people with worse towing setups. 😂
My RV is 8,000 pounds dry (3,600kg). I wanted a smaller truck for better gas mileage, but I wouldn't have been able to tow with it, as they were mostly rated at about 5,500 pounds (2,500kg).
They're rated differently here in Germany.
I regularly see setups like this here 
But I truly appreciate you converting your measurements
Public transport is for commies, and electric vehicles are gay.
I had a girlfriend and we got along well. She was really into cars, but it's not something that really comes up often, so it's kinda just whatever. Out of the blue she told me that whenever she parks next to an ev and the owner is there too, she revs up the engine really high, so they know what's up.
I looked at her for a long time and legitimately didn't know what to say, and all i could think off was: "but why?" And she said something like: "so they know what they are missing out" i told her that they either think you are mentally unwell or can't drive a car.
I totally agree with the "but why?" sentiment. One of the reasons I got an EV is precisely to avoid the engine sound.
Even if you're into loud cars, a 4 cylinder turbo engine hitting something like 6k rpm is nothing impressive...
Which makes you a gay commie if you ride on one of those electric trams. Makes a man want to just.. curl up and die.. maybe curl up in a comfortable place, next to his extremely straight friend. Maybe he wraps his arms around you, not too tight, just enough. Maybe he leans in and whispers in your ear, that it's going to be ok. Your nice and safe in your extremely straight friend's large, muscular arms. The tender kiss is a surprise, but a welcome one. It takes you away to a land without worry. Where the only two people that exist are you, enveloped in his embrace. Just thinking about the electric tram makes you so angry, and his loving arms wipe it away as they tear away your clothes in an extremely straight and macho way. There's nothing gay about a little blowjob, you tell yourself, as you ta-
I'm sorry were we talking about robot Teslas?
Now you make me want to go to ride electric tram.
Gay as a fox!
What i find most interesting is that the modern style truck that people are buying are actually so awful to use for real work. The increased bed height makes it harder to hand load to the point that they added integrated stairs in the door which doesnt help at all because youre still climbing wasting energy. When getting tools out of the back seat if your not 7 feet tall you cant reach in without physically climbing in. They kinda just suck in comparison to the old. When i see trucks like the one below i genuinely think that person is using it as intended probably likes that model more than something theyd buy new. My brain cant help but comment "thats a real truck with a real contributer to society inside"
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I may be in the minority but I hate trucks. I always will have a smaller sedan. Am US.
I would like a small, pre-2012 truck that is just used for hauling shit I need to the house, like wood, pellets, feed, etc.
What I find are dick-measuring vehicles where you have to lean forward to ensure no pedestrians are in front.
Still searching...
This one is 2017, but I really like these. Probably don't come with the driving experience of your dreams, but it's a truck.
Trucks are demonstrably more dangerous than other vehicles on the road.
My unpopular opinion is that truck drivers should pay a higher penalty when they're involved in accidents. Every moving violation in a truck gets bumped up, one degree, from civil to misdemeanor, from misdemeanor to felony. By driving a pickup truck you are choosing to endanger other drivers on the road.
I agree. Funny enough, when the taller vehicles were first becoming popular, "I can see everything" was popular. Well, if your visibility is improved, you should be penalized more for being at fault.
Even more so with all these driving assistant systems, if you rely too heavily on them (thinking OK to text and drive), that's on you for still causing an accident. Those systems are to aid alert drivers, not replace them.
Self driving above level and 0 below level 4 should be banned. Levels one and two do involve the driver more but people just can't be trusted to understand them. Level three is just downright dangerous. With nothing apparent to do people cannot be trusted to pay attention effectively even if they are trying. Google's self driving program started with level three self driving and promptly abandonded it when they found employees weren't paying attention to the road.
Not arguing, but my understanding is the main problem with driver assist systems is that people don't meaningfully understand their limitations and assume they will do more than they are capable of. Think highway lane assist being treated as a self driving system, for example, or the woman who jumped in front of her tesla her toddler was driving because she thought it would stop if there was a person in front of it.
Since the expectations are so wildly different between vehicles, and none of it is covered in drivers ed or road tests, it's bound to happen more.
Then even more so, it falls on the salesperson to help educate customers (could be new or used), and the new owner to test or confirm features, safely.
As a car salesperson years ago, I knew the brands I sold, the competition, and features including trim packages, etc, of all major competitors. While yes there is more tech involved, there's no excuse for ignorance.
I actively despise those massive pavement princesses and lose respect for any person who has one. They’re a must-have in the “macho insecure man-child” starter pack.
The answer was hybrids, but that wasn't good enough for the "environmentalists". So battery only power was forced on us before there was even infrastructure developed for it. Now, adoption rates are stagnant and we are creating even more environmental hazards than before.
We did it y'all!!
adoption rates are stagnant
only in the US.
https://electrek.co/guides/ev-sales/
And the US is seeing growth in the last few months spurned by gas costs, after a year and a half of dumbfuck trump dismantling all the work that had been put into making EVs accessible.
But it doesn't really matter, EV sales are huge everywhere else, we'll catch up one day. I am excited for domestic projects like Slate and Telo.
Good luck at the gas pump!
we are creating even more environmental hazards than before.
lolwat?
Not a silver bullet but we seriously need to reform the CAFE standards that reward automakers for producing vehicles with larger footprints.
We say that, but if the prices maintain habits will change. After the Iraq invasion in 2003, I saw people buy more and more smaller city cars over the next half a dozen years (at least in Canada).
Even GM, Chrysler and Ford were bringing small cars to the market until 2008-2010.
Once affordability and credit dry up, there'll be demand for small hybrids, economy cars and electric cars. SUVs and Pickups are just popular because car loans were so cheap. And gas prices have never been as low as the last decade.
Its already happening. 2000 f350 7.3L ZF6 4x4 rust free is worth less than 4k, trying to sell it for a recently widowed person and it sucks. Truck value, especially diesel, is shitting the bed.
In the US, trucks got so big because of poorly-thought-out EPA regulations that mandated specific gas mileage based on hood height rather than tonnage. In order to be subjected to the lower, more achievable targets, the hood height has to be above a certain number or else the truck can't be sold.
Too bad they wrote it with the un-erasable ink, otherwise after a few decades someone would've done something to fix it.
I do actually want a truck. I like to thrift shop and do home projects. being able to move furniture and construction materials would be nice. Too bad they're stupid big, full of tech garbage, and 30K. I just want a little ford ranger or something. There's no reason it should cost as much as it does when the only people using it are tradesmen and posers. A truck is meant to be the work horse of vehicles. Somehow they convinced enough people to pay a premium price for a thing that has near no versatility.
Why not a Peugeot Partner or VW Caddy or something in that class? Or if you need bigger a Ford Transit? Or a good old Passat, Volvo V70 or Škoda Octavia.
The trucks useful for actual hauling are nothing like these awful pavement princesses. They're smaller, lower, with a small cabin and bigger flatbed.
Unfortunately they are much less common nowadays. Wonder why that is.
The upcoming Slate could be what you want.
I have a lot of hope for the Slate. I'm worried about a dozen different things happening to it as a new company. I wish I could see their financials but it's a catch-22. If I can see their sales numbers it's more likely some big shitty company tries to hostile take over them (because they'd be publicly traded.) Getting one would be cool. Getting one and then having the company shutter (or get eaten by Amazon), not so much.
Why not buy a used one?