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You don't fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.
Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/
It’s an Emotional Support Truck, which is hilarious based on how opposed they are to gender affirming care.
Well that truck IS their gender affirming care 😂😭
And yet they cling to it while disavowing the concept.
But this way they can pretend it's not.
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It really is interesting how we have such large trucks and very few parking spots outside of the back nine of Wal-marts parking lot even close to big enough for them.
I think people who drive somethimg like that really do not care at all. They juat use three spots ot the disabled spot.
You could argue that those kind of people are at least mentally challenged.
You could park a Smart Fortwo in front of that honda and it would still not protrude as far out as this truck is.
I recall at previous job I worked, an old guy bought a giant truck, I think it was a GMC 6500. I'm between 6'1" to 6'3", depending on which gas station I'm leaving. I could easily walk under the side mirrors.
He worked second shift. I'd see it in the lot when i was leaving and it'd be gone when I arrived in the morning. I noticed in the morning, the truck was sitting in 1 spot for about 2 weeks before I asked around.Apparently the hurt himself while leaving one late night. He was climbing in and fell out backwards. I think it sat in one spot for another 6 weeks before someone finally came and got. It was an obnoxiously large truck
When I lived in the northeast, pre-2002, I remember seeing a few Escalade SUVs.
When I moved to the PNW, I suddenly discovered that there is also such a thing as an Escalade PICKUP. Extended cab, natch.
It’s that big so it can reach the 2 fuel pumps needed to fill up.
That sir is a bus with no public access.
The cab alone is bigger than my first car...
It's another symptom of the infinite growth mindset that is not only plaguing boardrooms but average citizens.
I blame the truck manufacturers more than the poor, deluded shlubs who buy them. There used to be standards in the industry but "big" costs more so they make more money (initially...while pricing a whole class of citizens out of the market).
The manufacturers definitely have a large share of the blame, but people still have the agency to make better choices.
I am right there with you. I’m not super big on blaming individuals for stuff like this. I saw an old Tacoma parked next to one of these monsters the other day and I was like, holy smokes, the size is just out of control.
There's someone with a new Tacoma on my campus and even that fucking thing has a front hood higher than my sedan's roof.
A truck is only slightly more expensive to produce than a sedan when all costs are taken into account, but can be sold at a higher price.
The main difference between a truck and a sedan is a few hundred pounds of metal. Both have the same cost in labour to manufacture, as well as equivalent R&D cost. In some cases, trucks have lower R&D because they aren't expected to change as much from year to year, so the engineering cost of re-designing parts/panels/etc. just isn't there.
I blame lack of regulation.
Regulation (in a way) is exactly how we got into this situation. CAFE was meant to enforce emissions standards, but the way it was written meant that making a bigger vehicle resulted in a lower fuel economy requirement. The Chicken Tax essentially stopped foreign trucks from being able to compete in the US market, which meant that Ford/GM/Dodge got to create an oligopoly.
regulation only works if the laws are not written by the companies that are being regulated
They fought it. I'm sure they'd prefer if there were no environmental or gas efficiency regulations at all. And when the laws passed anyway they found loopholes. The laws were written by well meaning but naive politicians, none of whom really understood the problems they were trying to address.
In 2012 the federal fuel economy standards were changed to no longer consider the classification of vehicle, but just its footprint. So suddenly a Corolla had less-strict fuel economy requirements than a small truck.
So the Ranger, Dakota, S-10, etc were all discontinued, and manufacturers learned that the easiest way to meet fuel economy standards was to make the vehicles bigger every time the requirements increase.
It's also why around 2022, every small cargo van (NV200, Transit Express, ProMaster City) stopped being produced. It's also why the Maverick has the "standard" model as the hybrid while the one you can actually find at the dealers is the "upgrade" traditional engine.
Point of order, the S10 was discontinued in 2003 and 2004.
Correct. I meant the Colorado, which they took off the market for the 2013 and 2014 models to redesign as a larger truck. Ford did the same thing.
That was a particularly dumb error on my part, BTW. I owned a 2001 S10 and 2012 Colorado. Now I own a 2020 NV200.
If I buy a car, it apparently gets discontinued soon afterwards.
I still have my 2003 S10. I got one of the last few thousand extended cab S10s made. I haven't ever driven a Colorado, but...I don't think there's a pickup that will do the job of an S10 better than my truck, they've all mutated into 6 ton penis enhancement sedans wearing ceremonial miniature cargo boxes.
I loved my S10. It was the best vehicle I ever had.
I bought it in 2005 for $3,000 with 42k miles on it because the previous owner's dad was a drunk and kept rubbing the side of it pulling in and out of the driveway. I didn't care that the paint looked bad, and I drove that truck for 11 years. I sopd it when the engine gave up the ghost, but kinda wished I'd just paid for the repair instead of buying the Colorado, which I was never really pleased with.
I've loved the NV200 though. I teach scuba as a side gig and it makes a great dive gear hauler.
I get offers for my S10. I reply "What would you offer the Lone Ranger to buy Silver?"
What is even the point of these, from what i seen the truck bed does not seem that much bigger if at all then a normal pickup truck?
Cosplaying as a "real worker".
What's worse is that lack of visibility kills and the engine bay is mostly empty space (see the outro in the video).
The beds of pickup trucks are largely vestigial, they're designed as crew plus trailer haulers. A truck like that will be advertised pulling a yacht on a trailer over the Rockies. It's got enough bed to put a gooseneck hitch in. A van or SUV will keep up with a pickup with a Class IV hitch, but a pickup truck is a miniature tractor trailer now.
Using the bed as a bulk cargo box is actually pretty rare these days.
It's a 5 seat sedan with a bed they don't use. the point is they want to look mean
what im even more sick of is smaller (normal) sized trucks that people just decide to park across two spots anyway. like who the hell do they think they are
Seen one recently. Don't know how it is in Americas, but for the rest of the world this is unnecessarily, stupidly, obscenely big. It doesn't fit anywhere, it consumes fuel in barrels, visibility is near zero, the pickup format is extremely impractical for everyday use. This is a climate-churning, people-pressing machine that makes 0 sense.
I think you can trace a lot of these problems back to legislation and the classification of work vehicles which receive bigger tax/incentives and going bigger and bigger is continually more beneficial to car manufacturers as increasing the size and cost of the standard car is their way of profit growth. Unfortunately this comes at the cost of safety, road conditions, infrastructure space/costs, the environment and consumer costs.
Climate town has an excellent video where they explain how the American SUV became so dominant and pushed this kind of thinking from car manufactures practically all because Jeep was failing and lobbied to change the laws so they could sell cars (obviously a huge oversimplification)