A thought: a lot of people who drive trucks live in places with no taxis or transit or walkability.
Trucks are primarily cosmetic as far as I can tell. I won't argue they aren't useful in rural environments but I also don't think it drives the bulk of sales/ownership at this point.
It’s not that people in rural areas necessarily buy them to use them more (tho it is probably slightly more) but that the culture in rural areas really revolves around trucks
When I go visit my folks it’s basically all you see out in the woods regardless if they’re seeing any action or not
The ground clearance matters a lot for shittily maintained roads even if you're not hauling anything for what it's worth.
A thought: a lot of people who drive trucks are irresponsible shitheads who get drunk and then drive a weapon around.
Capitalism has innovated us a vehicle whose name doubles as the user manual
Lol to make up for not being #1 they get the honorable mention of being on the list twice
E: Also the s-10 being #2 DEFINITELY tracks, having beer cans fall out when you open the passenger door is a requirement for owning one of those trucks
At least one of those 7 series owners got shitfaced and tried to reenact the opening chase scene in The Transporter.
7 series probably only so "low" because of all the driver aids
The most important aid being the crisp-white shirt wearing petite bourgeois tool in the driver's seat.
The star-fighter of Subarus.
Most of the gearheads I know are WRX fans.
I wonder why the big rugged dangerous manly trucks for big rugged dangerous manly men and those aspiring to be big rugged dangerous manly men are attracting so many drunk drivers? :thinkin-lenin:
Cars with the most DUI are also the cars most likely to fucking destroy someone in a crash while leaving the occupant unscathed, very cool
Wait until we live under Christofascism: "Chevy introduces the CivilianAPC BadBoy. Included in the base package are two fridges that can hold 24 packs of whatever you like to have in your BadBoy party machine. This all-coal powered beauty stands at 10 feet high and the grille reaches up to eight feet. It's perfect when you're rollin' along and you got obstacles of any sort in your way..."
I'm convinced 70's eras APCs would fare worse in a head on versus the luxury truck monstrosities being made these days
Is the WRX a huge SUV or a sports car? I just realized I have no idea what sort of cars Subaru makes other than wagons and what I imagine are reasonably sized SUVs.
Rally-inspired sedan/hatchback. The stereotypical driver is a vaping dude-bro so the DUI thing tracks
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It's weird. When it comes to recent cars (the last few decades) that are aerodynamic in a similar way - I simply can't remember one from the other. I have some kind of aerodynamic car blindness.
I really love cars from the 1960s and 70s and when I see them I get nostalgia. I'm at google looking at the STI right now. If I saw glimpse of one a few weeks from now - I wonder if I'd even recognize it.
Honestly can’t even fathom driving as a hobby. The price of gas combined with the price of cars has left me sidelined.
After the revolution, there will be no cars on the roads or streets, but there will be these huge closed courses with super cars where everyone can go super fast, drift, and do donuts.
Used to think having money to work on a project car was bougie madness
Now I think just having a garage is
Karting is a fun alternative. It's great because everyone has the same set up so it's all about skill. Also the 24 hours of lemons seems like a great concept.
STIs look like the Plymouth Superbird minus about 20 feet of excessive sheet metal and two extra doors. Like the Superbird, it's the most obnoxiously styled car on the road currently.
"Heh-heh...yeah!" Nervously darts his eyes around and scoots his 4-Series awkwardly under a nearby rug with his foot.
My dad has a Silverado as a work truck but he only drives stoned.
No way. List makes perfect sense. You got drunk contractors along with drunk PMCs. Two of those vehicles haven't been made in more than 20 years with the other being the old for ranger and that hasn't been made in 10 years. It also shows the jobs that will most likely result in a dui.
I want to know the least now
Edit: it's in the thread 1996 saab 900
Scratch that I believe I've fallen for some sort of ruse as an article states:
Car models with the fewest drunk drivers. On the opposite end of the spectrum from car models whose drivers have the most DUIs on their record are car models with the lowest proportion of DUIs. The top three cars with the least DUIs are the Toyota RAV4, the Hyundai Santa Fe, and the Toyota Sienna, all of which have only 0.61 , 0.65 , and 0.69 percent of drivers with a DUI citation on their record, respectively.
The Dodge Dakota was only made between 1987 and 2011. The S-10 was made from 1981 to 2004, and the Ranger was made from 1983 to 2012. I think they were all discontinued for safety reasons due to their small size, and I know the resale value on them was high last I checked.
The other models listed have basically always been around and still are. What is up with small trucks and their drivers getting DUIs??
I thought that only affected imported compact trucks? I don't really know
It does, but there's been a trend from car makers to make bigger and heavier trucks for years. I don't think there's been a real light truck on the US market for like a decade or more. They just keep getting bigger and more expensive and driving in to the luxury car bracket.
A buddy of mine was able to get his hands on the new maverick and I was able to drive it around. The thing is itty bitty. I had to move my motorcycle mid winter cus someone was trying to steal it and the bed fit the bike perfectly and drove great with the load.
On top of that he averages Prius fuel economy around town because its the hybrid model and can go like 5-600 miles on a tank. Its not as neat as an old single cab ranger or tacoma but it certainly punches above its weight class. I really hope more people realize they don't need their big trucks and opt for a maverick.
They got killed because rollover protection standards got stricter and it would have been harder to re-design the smaller, existing platforms for those than to just build bigger trucks, and the fact that larger vehicles have looser fuel economy requirements meant that small, fuel efficient trucks were less profitable.
What is up with small trucks and their drivers getting DUIs??
They're all pretty common as fleet vehicles (and also I believe the Grummann LLV postal truck is technically an S-10 depending on how they're collecting the data) in and they were all generally less expensive on the used market in like the mid-2000's. So I guess it'd be a function of having lots of them around being driven a lot more than anything else.
I've never heard of the make "Nat'l" before, they seem like they attract pretty responsible drivers though.
