This is why the US has to invade Iran and Venezuela. There is really no alternative.
I miss normal trucks that I was taller than. My wife used to have an old S10 that was very reasonably sized. It was a hell of a workhorse. We both miss that thing.
Same! My mom has this amazing tiny nissan when I was growing up. I would learn the stick shift for it if it was still around.
We all know it, but the US’s car culture is genuinely insane
(Always liked the Saints Row name for a Pavement Princesses was the ‘Compensator’) Guess it’s more manly to drive a gas guzzling kid muncher than a tuti-fruti european hatchback
You can hide a fully grown adult in the blindspot of this car.
I hope that is just an extremely short woman, or a one of a kind monster truck or something, I honestly can’t wrap my head around the idea of a ute that big, especially when it obviously isn’t actually built for carrying tools or offroading or any of the stuff you’d actually want to use a ute for. That thing must get 1/4 mile to the gallon, and be at risk of running over any pedestrians shorter than Andre the giant.
I think it’s a ford f650
ford f650
Yep looks like you are right and also what the fucking fuck
That lady’s probably around 5 feet tall, definitely small. But the truck is still tank sized
I’ve sadly seen them that big.
It is a huge truck, but yeah she looks shorter than average.
In the future people will look back
ah, I see you are an optimist
Anyone who attempts to buy one of these should be immediately dropped into a pit full of poisonous snakes.
“Oh… I’m so houngry… Snake friends… I’m sorryyyyyyyy.”
“Oof ouch owie, these snakes are rather spicy for my palette”
Literally a monster truck.
That’s real? How do you even get in it?
Powered running boards.
I think these should be illegal. If you need running boards to enter or exit your vehicle at all, the vehicle is too large to be on the roadways.
In my area of Canada, these things are on most lifted or fat wheel pickups and SUVs which maybe make up 1 in 8 vehicles on the road.
*for personal vehicles. Buses etc make sense
Well omg.
I mean it’s so ridiculously big. We used to have a farm truck when I was a kid, like one for hauling bales and stuff, and it didn’t require any special equipment to get into. It was still big as it was some old chevy and sort of ridiculous by local standards, also expensive to drive.
These things are just insane, how can anyone afford to drive them at all. Why would anyone want to deal with parking that? How do you even use it for any hauling, because looks like the truckbed is just as high?
I don’t get the usaian mindset at all. That thing would fit in 0 parking spaces where I am.
So, a big part of this is that lots of Americans who have these fucking things get to deduct up to 100% of the cost of a heavy truck on their taxes, so long as the vehicle weighs over 6000 lbs. This is often called the G-Wagon Loophole.
Also common near agricultural areas are farm plate trucks which are exempted from things like taxes and registration, and are allowed to use inexpensive/untaxed dyed Red Fuel on the road.
They’re completely useless for any truck type tasks other than maybe towing, but statistics show that almost none of these vehicles ever tow anything between the date of manufacture and the date it eventually gets totalled out or crushed.
It’s a way for business owners to get a free luxury vehicle, and almost every Hummer ever sold used this method.
This makes it make a lot more sense, thank you.
They’re also allowed to do this every single year, so tons of farmers just get a new truck yearly and you’ll see tons of kids driving to school in a 3 year old Sierra 3500 clad in like whale cock leather or some bullshit.
These are the farmers that complain about being sooooo poor and how impossible it is to be a farmer. They’re almost universally sitting on like $5,000,000 in tractors and combines and luxury pickups, getting a free phone plan, and getting 250% subsidies on corn.
“Ooooh but I’m a job creator and I grow your food!” Bro you farm ethanol corn and American Wagyu that’s $30/lb and exploit undocumented laborers while denying them a work visa, shut the fuck up.
Literally no one seems to understand that a business owner has fucking business assets that they can sell for a shitload of money should their smol business fail. They’d still be in a better position than the rest of us
That part is completely similar to Finland then.
There is a smol bean poor farmer in my extended family and they have been exploiting eastern european labor since the 90s, drive new teslas and basically own the entire town around them at this point, complaining every single day about the hardship. Saw the bank balance of one of them once as a kid, that was one of the moments of my early radicalization.
It’s an unbelievably privileged lifestyle on the back of unbelievable exploitation, and in North America the barrier to entry is also “did your family steal native land or own slaves?”
Not that I think people should try to become one of these landowner ghouls, but it’s just impossible to do any sort of farming that would be less exploitative.
I was going to ironically disagree and post counterpoint: image of a patent for dogs riding on car sideboards because their old timey owners don’t want to let them in their cars which is kinda cruel but also the dogs probably loved it at the speeds they were going back then but now search is so enshittified that I can’t find it.
Please enjoy this unrelated image I found of a dog powered car:
Are two dogs really enough here? I’m also curious how many hamsters it would need.
Come on guys, one of you has to have the conversions between horsepower, dogpower, and hamsterpower.
Maybe something like this ad?
That dog powered car is awesome. I hope you enjoy this dog powered turnspit.
That is exactly what I had in mind.
Hire a team of guide to help with the ascension. The air thins that high up, so travel accordingly
What’re you hauling that requires an F550.
This is an F-750, barely squeaking in below commercial vehicle weight. A 550 is still somewhat recognisable as a passenger vehicle
I’ve never seen an f750 with a box before, only converted. I didn’t even know they selled them like that.
What if they want to bring a horse trailer to the fair, or bring their giant speedboat to a lake?
What do you mean, you can tow a horse trailer with a hatchback?
not to say they aren’t a problem though. america is nothing if not full of problems that are just unsolvable
