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    Fuck people who buy those big beasts, then can’t handle them for shit, and try to park as close to the front door as possible, fucki ng up parking for every other vehicle. Never even trying to park straight…ungh.

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      Every trip in a truck with an empty bed is a waste. Tooling around with stuff in the bed without the intent to deliver/use it at your destination is even worse.

      Yet that describes 99.99999% of all pickup truck use in America. Just a huge ass waste of gas and space in parking lots.

      Trucks are expensive too! If I were a scam artist I would definitely be targeting people driving shiny pickup trucks with empty beds. Because they definitely aren’t practical or realistic people.

      Wait: Maybe that’s how MAGA started? 🤔

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        That’s how you know it’s all for show. People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too. “Oh well I’m glad I have it for towing and moving”. Bull. How often do you tow really? And even then I’d expect it to sit at home most of the time. Moving? Once a year. Rent a truck. I go to home Depot and rent theirs when I need it.

        Buying a truck like that shows you are way too worried about what people think of you, you have to feel “big”, which usually means you’re a small man, and probably bad with money.

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        I just looked up the dimensions of that thing and it has 10cm (3inch) shorter bed than mine. How you even manage to pull that off with a truck that big is beyond me.

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    I remember a time when that Frontier was considered a big truck, especially compared to Rangers and Tacomas.

    Now the Rangers and Tacomas are almost as big as the Dodge in this…

    ETA: Just noticed you’re in Europe. Sorry that 'murican fattism has reached you, I didn’t know these compensators existed across the pond.

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      Sorry that 'murican fattism has reached you

      I don’t mind. I’m a car guy myself, and I like them in all shapes and sizes. I’d probably drive one too if I lived in the US, but over here they’re just way too big and impractical not to mention they stick out in traffic like a sore thumb and, quite frankly, make you look kind of a douche.

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        They’re way too big here too we’re just replacing infrastructure to satisfy thousands of people’s penis envy instead of telling people no.

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    Unpopular opinion: unless you regularly haul things, you don’t need a truck of any size. Unless you regularly go off-road or are transporting 5+ people and a dog or more, you don’t need an SUV. You can rent one of those for the rare times you need it! And in the meantime, you’ll save gas money and pedestrian deaths will go down…

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      I will somewhat disagree with the SUV comment, as my escape counts as an SUV, and I regularly fill it far past a sedan’s capacity when I go grocery shopping (the savings from driving 3+hours each way to the nearest Costco far outstrips the cost in gas) and when I go camping.

      And, as I camp in a tent, and have kayaks I can strap to the roof, I don’t need a truck at all, because my car can get me to every campsite that a truck can get to, often easier than someone dragging a camper can.

      Plus, since its a plug-in hybrid, and Canada doesn’t burn fossil fuels for power, my fuel efficiency is significantly better than the average sedan in drives under 100km, and breaks even above that.

      On a 60km drive, I average 2L/100km, a 100km drive I average 4.6L/100km, and on a 300km drive I average 6.6L/100km (100km/h), 7.5L/100km (110km/h), or 8.8L/100km (120km/h), which is well within what sedans average.

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        All absolutely valid points and my only counter argument here is that is why wagon sedans exist. Growing up in Poland a wagon was the family hauler bringing all the stuff you mentioned to pretty much anywhere you need. People even haul rvs with the wagons and you’re still smaller and relatively more pedestrian friendly. Hell they even make performance cars in wagon spec like the bmw m3. Not saying that to discredit your point just that there was another option before the suv craze came about

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          Fun fact: Only 1.4% of the cars sold in the US are wagons and of them 72% were Subaru Outbacks.

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          The last wagon style sedan I had had worse fuel efficiency than a modern f150 does (though it was an early 2000’s model).

          Brakes on that thing also scared the shit out of me, it did not like stopping.

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            The Subaru forester sedans were very popular in New England from the early 200s to like 2014. Idk just saying there are good option, there were even diesel wagons from WV that had solid efficiency later on .

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              I’ve been thinking about replacing my 2005 car but the only thing I want to replace it with is an electric station wagon, of which Europe has several options and America has 0. I don’t want a compact SUV, I just want a wagon! I’ll probably leave the country before I have any options lol

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                Station wagons are for mommies in the 1980s; all the cool kids want SUV and pickups.

                So car manufacturers made station wagons with upright seating positions and “off road” styling and called them Crossovers.

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                  Yeah, my car I always though was a hatchback, but apparently is actually classified as a crossover. The main reason I still have it (other than having been paid off) is because it still gets competitive mpg and it’s so practical. I used it to take all my crap to and from college. I can carry 9ft lumber in the cabin with the passenger seat down. I’ve gone on a service road in a state park and I didn’t get stuck.

                  The thought has crossed my mind to get an electric conversion for it instead of buying a new spyware riddled car 😆

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        Modern pickups are bad. Old pickups were fantastic for “I need to pile a bunch of (insert thing here) in the back.”

        But now every pickup is a massive motor for a tiny truckbed that my ford focus wagon has better hauling capacity.

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      Everyone has things they want but dont need. I doubt that guy has any real need for that thing but I’m sure it’s a ton of fun to own and drive around nevertheless.

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      Capitalism and consumerism is about buying shit we dont need man.

      That why America doesnt buy public healthcare, its needed so we dont buy it. Ok?

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    Nice. I’m planning to get a compact pickup soon. The prices are starting to get really steep where I live. It’s like $4000+ for a 25 year old truck with 180,000 miles on it.

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          It’s so stupid, if you actually need a small truck your options are to buy used basically.

          We just need a couple small (easy to navigate in cities, good on gas) 4wd trucks on the market. You’re basically stuck in Ford Transitsright now, which they’ve just stopped making, or buying 20yr old Mazdas and Rangers. Or being forced into the same F150s every other fleet operator has. I know the market for these vehicles exists (though demand is low) why does no manufacturer try to fill it?

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            Actually small trucks stopped being made in the early 2000s. Mid size, which has also been growing for several years, is the smallest kind that got made after the EPA regulations changed.

            People like to blame truck owners for their bigass vehicles, but I think they’re only half responsible, with the other half being that actually small trucks just don’t really exist anymore.

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              My grandfather drove around a beat up Datsun pickup, smaller than most sedans these days. But it did the job for what he used it for, and ran forever. I think I’ve seen less than five on the road in the decades since. They seem out of place in today’s SUV/huge truck world.

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            They are starting to at least make some more reasonable vehicles. Not exactly small but not the oversized monsters.

            Ford Maverick, Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, etc.

            Honestly if the towing capacity was more I would have gotten the Maverick instead of the F150 for work. Sadly it can only haul 7,000lbs and I haul around a 10,000 GVW trailer all the time. The F150 in got can haul 13K.

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              The new Toyota Hilux Champ seems kinda nice too I think. It’s kinda ugly but kinda not - and dirt cheap

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      It’s like $4000+ for a 25 year old truck with 180,000 miles on it.

      And even worse if you’re picky about features, like a manual transmission or four wheel drive.

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    Frontiers are awesome little (relatively) work trucks. I don’t ever need to haul people so I ripped out the rear seats and installed shelving for anything I need to keep secure and dry. Big enough bed to throw nasty/oily parts. And a good enough towing capacity for most rental equipment like bobcats and lifts. Basically a half van.

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      This is actually a Navara, which is the European equivalent of the Frontier. As far as I know, it’s otherwise the same vehicle, but Frontiers usually come with a 6-cylinder petrol engine, whereas this one has a 4-cylinder turbo diesel. Mine originally only had two seats to begin with, since I preferred the longer bed instead. Ironically, the bed on this monstrosity didn’t seem any bigger than the one on mine.

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        Yeah, they’re pretty close to the same truck. I would have loved the diesel option, but we’re deathly afraid of small displacement diesels in the US.

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      Frontier is exactly as much truck as most truck owners actually need. I love it. I wish it was more fuel efficient but it’s a mild, modest, effective vehicle and i have not yet run into a situation it couldn’t deal with. Wonderful purchase. It turns like a boat but that’s a decent trade off to avoid the Toyota Tax on the Tacoma.

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    I did the same when a coworker showed up with an F350 crew cab 6.5ft bed. Lifted, offroad lights, cb antenna, diesel (which is the HD option in the US). He lives in the suburbs and pays laborers for everything. So I plopped my dutiful little Mazda B2300 next to it (Ranger) that regularly hauls a little bit of wood.

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      So I plopped my dutiful little Mazda B2300 next to it (Ranger) that regularly hauls a little bit of wood.

      '96 Ranger 2.3L here. My truck has the same engine as the Ford Pinto and that’s the way I likes it!

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      I will never understand why truck owners love backing into stalls.

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        • Easier to fit into tighter spots
        • Easier to get the vehicle straight and on the middle of the slot
        • Safer as you’re far more likely to hit a person/car when backing out onto the street rather than backing into a parking slot that you can see in the mirrors in it’s entirety
        • Faster to leave if you’re in a hurry (probably why it’s called assault parking)

        This is my first truck but I’ve always parked my vehicles this way.

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    I have a 2011 Nissan titan that is completely stocked no big stupid lift just some different rims and that’s it. It has done great work for me and my family I’ve never had any issues with it I regularly keep it serviced and it will do 20mpg. The amount of people I know who have big giant bro diesel trucks with 2 story high lifts and political stickers on them that never see a speck of dirt and just go to the McDonald’s is stupid. And they all complain about gas prices yet at the same time brag about how there trucks do 8mpg to own the libs…

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      20! Wow… I get from close to 40 on my Toyota auris most weeks. And that’s mostly urban driving

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    I’ve never seen something as big as the one on the left, in my entire life. Probably because I haven’t been to the US in a long ass time?