It's got great visibility! I can see all the other cars around me!
Meanwhile, pedestrians: :walter-breakdown:
Americans be like “I need it for work!” As if lumber has gotten heavier and the truck size from the 80s can no longer haul it
The larger the truck the less likely someone actually has a blue collar job in my experience. My favorite is when it's a small blonde woman who can't see anything directly around them and doesn't notice when they hit another vehicle.
I've always maintained that you should never hire a contractor with a clean white truck. There's no way they use that truck for real work.
Lol, I don't think I have a picture of my dad's truck but it's beaten to shit, the mechanic he takes it to get repaired told him to stop using it like a tractor to pull tree stumps out of the ground.
When I was a kid, my dad owned a rusted out Toyota Hilux: the Official Ride of the Taliban!
It's a vehicular arms race, as more people get bigger vehicles it makes others feel the need to match that size so they aren't crushed in a tin can.
Mutually Assured Destruction but cars. Before long everyone is driving a APC around like its normal
I solved this problem by securing a large number of propane and oxygen cylinders to the bumpers of my Kia Soul. I can't win, but I can make sure we all lose.
Isn't that what a Hummer is? Just an APC that's a little easier for civilians to get?
Okay so, the ooooold school Hummer H1 was based on the military Hummer. As Cigarette_comedian mentions, the Humvee was originally a scout truck. When we got to Iraq and learned that the Iraqis weren't going to lay down and die and the insurgency started we found out that IEDs and various other weapons were very effective at taking out humvees. Soldiers started welding whatever steel they could find or steal on to the trucks for protection from IEDs, RPGs, machine gun fire, and so forth. Because remember, these were originally just bigger jeeps, they had no armor at all. This, along with the lack of body armor for infantry, caused a scandal in the US and Bush and Cheney had to rush to procure armor kits for the humvees to pretend they cared that soldiers were getting blown up. This resulted in various up-armor kits that could be bolted on to humvees to provide protection against small arms and to a lesser extent RPGs and other explosives. They couldn't really protect against IEDs, though. Insurgents could pack a hundred pounds of high explosives in to a drain pipe, bury it under the road, and weight for a patrol to come by. Boom, no more humvee, dead or injured occupiers, bad press for Bush. The the government started a rapid and sloppy procurement process for MRAPs, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected. Big, top heavy, overweight, underpowered armored trucks with V shaped hulls that would direct thee energy of a mine or blast away from the crew compartment instead of just taking the full force of the blast. These vehicles were relatively well armored against small arms, shrapnel, and in some cases RPGs, but they sucked in every other way. They were too heavy to go off road, they were too top heavy to climb grades, they were slapped together piecemeal by many different companies in a hurry so there were lots of different kinds with incompatible parts. A lot of the armored vehicles that ended up in the hands of US cops were old MRAPs the military didn't want because they were fucking useless if you had to do anything other than drive in a straight line on a sturdy, level road.
So, is the humvee an APC? No, but also it's complicated. There are armored humvees, but they were never designed for that role and the added weight causes them all kinds of problems. And the armored humvees were just a stopgap because the US had no plan for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and kept showing it's whole ass by being totally unprepared.
Kinda, a Hummer is based of a Humvee, which is a truck for scouting, patrolling and such and is lightly armored. A APC has heavier armor and more serious armaments and is only supposed to be used for transporting and assisting troops to battle (ignore the Bradley ignore the Bradley ign-) Still your point stands since the Hummer is just a civilianized military vehicle
I just want a small enough car that I can cheekily manoeuvre around the bigger cars, like a hummingbird among grizzly bears
It's that or it's some asshole in a decked out sports car and it's like "yeah ok you look real cool stuck in traffic trying to go to the store like the rest of us, guy.""
Also Ford F-150 drivers are the fucking worst on the highway, the most aggressive people I've ever seen.
The only thing I hate more than dipshits in a F150 or F250 are the trucks with 4 back tires. Duallies. I drive on narrow country roads and having to swerve to avoid their protruding tires is a pain in my ass.
When the revolution comes we should put all giant trucks in the way of an armored train going a thousand miles an hour :train-shining:
Dummy thicc truck ass vs the train from Goldeneye let's see who wins
I just want to know that I'll be okay when I cause accidents, because I cause a lot of them
My parents kept trying to convince me to buy an SUV over the past 10 years. I'd been driving a 2 door Toyota from 1995. It still drives, so why get a new one? Is my thought.
Well they got really intense about it so last year I experimented with bike communicating and now I drive a bicycle everywhere :sicko-biker:
It still drives, so why get a new one?
This is the way. I can understand wanting to buy like, new curtains or something, but a car is such a huge purchase I will never understand anyone who buys one when the one they have is perfectly fine.
There's loads and loads of fake calculations done, I imagine, mostly by ad agencies about how it's cheaper as if the single biggest value drop a car ever experiences isn't literally being the first to own it and drive it.
I guess the exceptions are if your vehicle needs change (live in the suburbs and have kids? I see a minivan in your future) or if your car has broken down to the point that it threatens to be a money pit.
you'd still be off better buying used. Nothing depreciates car value like driving it off the lot.
My in-laws always comment on how old our cars are. Weird questions like “are you holding onto this car out of sentimental value?”
No. It gets us around and we don’t have car payments. Just because you get a new $45k SUV every third year doesn’t mean we should.
Just tell them " i Dont need that to Impress , I already have charakter "
Don't tell me that's a human powered tractor monstrosity. That's amazing and I choose to believe it was built out of spite.
It's a bicycle! Well, quintcycle I guess.
I've translated some excerpts in the post that I did on it , just didn't wanna toot my own horn too much.
It's not explicitly stated that he did it out of spite but I'd wager if you take all available information here, spite is pretty much the motivator
give me the Czerka Sandcrawler i promise i wont use it the stripmine every golf course and subdivision in the southwestern united states :sicko-jawa:
