Even with blue collar work it's kinda funny. Construction sites are filled with pickups that people only commute to the site with. Like they need a few pickups on site for stuff, but not everyone needs one on hand.
My neighbour is a contractor and he drives his pickup to his work pickup as well, lol.
My first car was a mini truck (not a micro truck), like in the vein of the 90s Tacoma or nissan hardbody.. tbh, it got OK mileage (almost 30 mpg IIRC) and it was pretty useful. It was also the perfect size. I kinda miss it lol
Unfortunately everyone who can afford cars nowadays are wretched boomers who think anyone with a car that won’t flatten a pedestrian with a light nudge is a Soviet sleeper agent
They are awesome and pretty much all 99% of truck owners need anyway. Like, hauling junk to the junkyard, helping people move, and especially, being able to throw gear in the bed and drive to wherever was really nice. I got into mountain biking at one point and it's just so easy to chuck everything in the back.
Oh I don't doubt it. It's not exactly like people don't do stuff that's uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for status symbols in other areas of life.
Yeah this is wildly dangerous. There's going to come a point where these trucks are going to be too big and cumbersome for normal road driving and get a lot of people hurt and or killed.
They drive like any other car. They are just huge. And getting to tall. But like it was always people want them large as a status thing. Especially small people. It's always tiny guys driving huge trucks
Same with Bakkies (South African trucks, smaller for now) in South Africa.
So many people bought fake raptor kits for their Ford Rangers that Ford South Africa decided to make the Ranger raptor a real thing and it's become a record seller lmao
I few years ago I was visiting some family in Tennessee, and I was kind of surprised to hear them, chuds as they were, argue that having a lifted truck was a sign of braindamage. Can't remember the specific wording, but supposedly the lifting absolutely wrecks the ability for the truck to actually haul anything that can't fit in the bed, which means that anyone with a lifted truck is probably only driving it for the aesthetic.
The wild part is that this might be 100% serious. Lifted trucks are seen as a status symbol in vast amounts of Amerikkka.
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:kombucha-disgust: no.
I'd be ok with everyone having a kei truck
my friend's brother moved to a smallish town and got a brand new one-ton truck because "everybody in town has a truck". he works in accounting
Even with blue collar work it's kinda funny. Construction sites are filled with pickups that people only commute to the site with. Like they need a few pickups on site for stuff, but not everyone needs one on hand.
My neighbour is a contractor and he drives his pickup to his work pickup as well, lol.
My first car was a mini truck (not a micro truck), like in the vein of the 90s Tacoma or nissan hardbody.. tbh, it got OK mileage (almost 30 mpg IIRC) and it was pretty useful. It was also the perfect size. I kinda miss it lol
If i had the money to start a car company I’d start one that just makes small trucks like that. They’d be a hit
Unfortunately everyone who can afford cars nowadays are wretched boomers who think anyone with a car that won’t flatten a pedestrian with a light nudge is a Soviet sleeper agent
They are awesome and pretty much all 99% of truck owners need anyway. Like, hauling junk to the junkyard, helping people move, and especially, being able to throw gear in the bed and drive to wherever was really nice. I got into mountain biking at one point and it's just so easy to chuck everything in the back.
I kinda want a truck but like I just want to be able to move a couch or a bed or a large TV without renting some bullshit
don't worry though I'd never be able to afford one
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It's serious I've sent her on my tiktok feed. She thinks it's pretty badass.
Good lord.
Oh I don't doubt it. It's not exactly like people don't do stuff that's uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for status symbols in other areas of life.
Yeah this is wildly dangerous. There's going to come a point where these trucks are going to be too big and cumbersome for normal road driving and get a lot of people hurt and or killed.
They drive like any other car. They are just huge. And getting to tall. But like it was always people want them large as a status thing. Especially small people. It's always tiny guys driving huge trucks
more like tiny women
Same with Bakkies (South African trucks, smaller for now) in South Africa.
So many people bought fake raptor kits for their Ford Rangers that Ford South Africa decided to make the Ranger raptor a real thing and it's become a record seller lmao
I few years ago I was visiting some family in Tennessee, and I was kind of surprised to hear them, chuds as they were, argue that having a lifted truck was a sign of braindamage. Can't remember the specific wording, but supposedly the lifting absolutely wrecks the ability for the truck to actually haul anything that can't fit in the bed, which means that anyone with a lifted truck is probably only driving it for the aesthetic.