• @[email protected]
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    345 months ago

    I assume they are talking about the newer models that have worse sight lines than literal tanks.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      55 months ago

      I’m still pissed the EVs were discontinued.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        Yeah… that was a bummer. I don’t think cybertruck and its mountain of failures is helping the case for “macho” evs

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          5 months ago

          Not sure what qualities a car has to make it macho, but I saw a Fiskar Ocean the other day on the road in matte forrest green, and thought it was pretty sexy. I don’t know their pitfalls yet, but it was enough to make me look them up. Not a fan of the giant screen in the middle, but maybe it would grow on me.

          Edit: and they might be declaring bankruptcy and selling off their assets… Welp that sucks

        • @Duamerthrax
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          25 months ago

          I was hoping to get a used one in a few years to use on the farm. The range and load capacity would be well within most errands. I’m now eyeing an Edison Motor’s kit for an old square body.

    • @[email protected]
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      -175 months ago

      Well true, but have you looked at european SUVs lately? They’re getting there and i don’t see the EU doing anything to limit dimensions.

      • @[email protected]
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        135 months ago

        This comment is pure Whataboutism. You asked what was wrong with the F150’s and you got answered. And your response is, “well, the european ones are probably gonna do it too!”

        C’mon man.

        Regardless of who’s doing it, it still sucks and is bad.

        • @[email protected]
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          05 months ago

          I know a lot of people thought i was defending the F150s - i wasn’t, just asking - and i never said i liked them.

          I don’t, i think new pick-up trucks are ridiculous and the artificial enlargement is equally ridiculous and dangerous. Yet they sell in the EU, don’t they?

          The enlargement trend isn’t exclusive to pick-up trucks and has long since been adopted by SUVs. The BMW X6 is sold in the EU.

          Even the fucking Hummer is sold in the EU! That should not be road legal.

          So the takeaway is that ruling bodies don’t really care about pedestrians, but that’s a known fact, so going after a particular model because it’s cool to do so is just dumbshit hive mentality, be it the cybertruck or another vehicle. Then again, someone else in the comments got downvoted as well for condemning vandalism so… typicial redditlemmy i guess.