Big cars are the epitome of the small dick mentality trying to get compensated

I call em princess trucks. It's just gender affirming care ✨

As a German I dont get trucks at all.

If you need a lot of loading capacity, a van is almost always the better choice.

Especially when you sometimes need to carry a lot of people and other times a lot of material. You can just take the back seats out or fold them down, now you can use the same space for two different purposes.

And you can even install shelves for your tools and material, they are also protected from the weather and some thieves.

I have a Nissan NV-200 (which is almost too small to be considered a van) and I can seat 7 people or I can remove/fold away the backseats and I can suddenly carry more than I almost always need.

It is Diesel and right now I get 7l/100km (33mpg) even though I dont have a fuel saving driving style. I did some experiments when I was on vacation, if I drive a constant 120kph (74mph) I get 6l/100km (39mpg). If I drive around 90kph (56mph) behind commercial trucks, not hugging them but following them so I dont hold up traffic anymore than they do, I get between 4 and 5l/100km (59-47mpg).

Try doing that with a truck, especially when its got a big V8 engine that basically just burns fuel for nothing.

think about how much you hate it, then multiply that by having to live in the same country as 'em.

I have def seen this shit all over the midwest and central washington.

American here. Calm down, it's a specialized vehicle that costs more than a hundred thousand dollars with an engine designed to tow extremely heavy industrial products for non-commercial use outside of what typical truck manufacturers sell for typical industrial shipping such as semi-trucks.

No, fucker, nobody is going to buy that and drive to McDonalds, you are delusional that Cleetus can afford that thing.

German here

A German complaining about American wars?

I saw this thing on Cribs once. T-Pain had it. Fucking hood of the car was a good foot over his fucking head. It's literally a semi-trailer cab.

6'4'' don't fit in anything else

My fucking ass. I'm 6'6'' and the only vehicle I've ever not actually been able to fit in was a Jeep Wrangler.

If I had to regularly tow a midsized excavator on a large gooseneck trailer, this size of truck would be a reasonable - if moderately excessive - option.

Otherwise, outside of “let’s haul some large earthmoving equipment” use cases, it is stupid to own a truck like this.

See, the difference between this lemmy fuckcars, and the subreddit, is that, on the subreddit, I would get plenty of people who fell for the bait completely. On this lemmy, most of the top posts are people specifically refuting the bait. Of course, this does nothing to disincentivize the behavior, and increases the engagement of the post, compared to other, better posts, but it's still nice that the userbase could recognize the problems with this rather than just kind of buying in mindlessly because it seemed to agree with their political in group.

Overcompensating for a lack of everything but money.