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I just don’t understand how can people enjoy driving this boat. You see nothing, parking is a nightmare and what benefits do you get?
On the plus side, you never seen them in places with difficult parking.
Out of town they’re pretty nice to drive to be fair. Wide and long wheelbase = great on highway, tons of clearance = shouldn’t be too worried about getting gravel dings on a dirt road compared to a low car.
But of course most of them are driven around town mostly, where there’s literally no benefit to the size unless you’re trying to score a gouranga. You don’t get the seating capacity of a large SUV and unlike a van your back’s open so good luck storing anything there without getting it stolen when parked unless you get a cover for the bed, in which case why didn’t you just get an SUV that lets you switch between extra seats and cargo space?
They like the idea of everyone looking at them longingly. What they don’t realize is everyone is looking at their abhorrent vehicle.
Make pee pee feel big
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My truck is a luxury SUV without the back end being covered, has alll the comforts you’d need. Amazing vehicle
“f you, I got mine”, right?
In case anyone is wondering if this person’s opinions are worth caring about: https://lemmy.zip/comment/27726132
How’s the visibility? Have you driven a normal car before? I enjoy driving but I actually like seeing the road and most contemporary pick up trucks are so bad regarding this.
I have to other cars, a 05 Camry and 08 edge, so I do have other cars. To answer your question visibility is amazing. 360 view cameras, I can see it all
cameras
Lost me. I have no interest in looking at screens when I drive.
These cameras are all on while you’re driving? So you could see a child if they were close to the front of your truck?
Front and back cameras can be but I don’t see why I wouldnt see a kid
but I don’t see why I wouldnt see a kid
That’s part of the issue with these big, slab fronted trucks and SUVs. They’re so blunt and tall that they obscure anyone shorter than the vehicle, like a child, if they’re too close.
I know how to use a cross walk (the signal lights up and makes announcements here, it’s hard to get confused by it) and have still been almost hit multiple times after I started crossing. I don’t wear urban camo, people truly just don’t even look for anything except other cars. ‘Is something that can fuck me up in the way? No? Time to blindly accelerate!!’
It’s even worse in parking lots. ‘I’m in my car now, time to go!’ with zero understanding that they just walked through the parking lot and other people might also be walking through it.
i mean, anti tank weapons don’t have to be used only on tanks.
In college I sometimes biked to campus. I lived a few blocks from it (technically less than a block, but there wasn’t an exit on the corner). I remember one day biking back, crossing the road to where I lived, and a car damn near almost ran me over. It was only like a 20mph street, and I wasn’t speeding by, so they had plenty of time to see me. That moment stuck with me to never trust that drivers are doing the right thing. Just because you have the right to do something doesn’t mean you won’t be hit doing it. Luckily, IIRC, it was a small car though, so even if it had hit me I probably would have been mostly fine.
Boy have I got the solution for you
Just carry a brick and wave it at traffic as you cross. Make sure they know that you can fuck them up and everyone should play nice.
I’d wager that a fake and lightweight but realistic looking brick for ease of carrying around would probably work too, since it’s the visual warning you’re after
But if what I need to use brick? Should I carry a backup real brick© just in case?
a well-marked emergency propane tank is also acceptable.
I always have those on me! Good thinking my friend.
Maybe Ninja Rocks could be the solution for you. Only fucks up windows, though
Actual drawing of a 2018+ Chevy truck. Fucking butt ass ugly pieces of shit, like almost all new cars. I’ll go back to 2004 thanks, when cars were peak.
If it has to be cars, I prefer the Trabant or Citroen DS style look. Those are beautiful.
But that said… what is y’alls favourite bicycle? I personally really like the omafiets ones, they’re solid and have incredible durability. I’ve seen people easily do 15+ years with them, and they can also carry two adult people sometimes (one on the saddle, another on the luggage carrier if it’s steel).
For brands I never buy anything but Dutch-manufactured, tbh.
Isn’t the trabant made of plastic?
It is and it’s a piece of shit, there’s a reason you don’t see them on the road much anymore. Actually, there are many reasons.
Minus the last year or two of production they had tiny two stroke engines. Like basically dirt bike engines, but nowhere near as powerful since it had low compression and a low redline.
Of course that later engine, which is pretty rare, is barely any more powerful since it’s twice as big but also four stroke - but at least being a four stroke it should run a fair bit cleaner and you won’t have to add oil to the fuel.
It also had no fuel pump, so the fuel tank sat on top of the engine. I imagine that would be fun if it started leaking, like in an accident or something.
Fuel consumption per Wikipedia is 7l/100km which doesn’t sound too bad but it’s about comparable with a luxury SUV in 2026 which weighs 4 times as much. At least a 6 cylinder diesel or hybrid one, big V8s will of course be worse.
You really wouldn’t want to take them out of the city either. The things weren’t powerful enough to warrant an overdrive gear so in fourth you’d be cruising on the highway at 90 km/h doing 4000 rpm or so.
The thing went out of production because by the end, more modern and better (in pretty much every way) cars were actually cheaper to buy too.
Why do they make the grille so tall on pickups? Styling? It has to negatively affect aerodynamics. Same with visibility in front of the vehicle. Commercial trucks have big frames and huge radiators, so they just look how they have to look. I think that American car makers just style their pickups like that to make them look more like commercial trucks.
I do suspect that some of those 5, 6 and even 7 liter engines also warrant fairly beefy radiators. Like the Ford F150 is available with small engines from 3 to 5.2 liters and has a lower grille, but the super duty that has a ridiculously tall grille gets either a 6.7 liter diesel or a 6.8 or 7.3 petrol… And you know the diesel crowd likes to tune them too, so those need a lot of cooling to cope with those stupid ass coal rolling remaps (those tend to raise EGTs quite a bit, meaning your turbo runs even hotter, so now you have to cool down the charge air and engine oil even more).
It makes PP more bigger.
smaller*
https://matt.jajkowski.com/blog/cars/y-are-trucks-so-big-now-the-surprising-role-of-cafe-standards/
Pretty sure this is a lot of it. By making them bigger all the proportions change thus a big grille for a massive truck.
The information isn’t inaccurate, but is that an AI written article? LLMs tend to use emojis like that
Could be. Was just a quick article I found to explain.
If it is I’d love to find a non slop article.
Yes, the paneling choices on modern consumer pickups definitely seek to emulate the aesthetics of a semi-trailer cab. Which is a vehicle that you need a special class of license to operate and can only legally drive on specific roads, even in the US.
Pretty sure semis have better front vis than many modern trucks, especially GMCs.
Yeah, I drove one of those as my job for 5 or 6 years. Why anyone would want their personal vehicle to emulate those in any way is beyond me. They suck.
I occasionally drive large things like lorries, large vans and tractors, and I also cannot fathom why anyone would voluntarily drive something big just to get around.
I’m very happy with my 40 year old hatchback.
special roads? you mean almost all roads that don’t have silly signs?
Yessir, the more wall-like the front of the truck is, the more better it is and the more of a big strong boy the driver is.
I have to give credit to the drawing in the OP, since they even got it right that the hood line is now higher than the rest of the midline created by the bottoms of the windows and the top of the bed.
