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Here is a Google image of Dodge ram 3500. EVEN IF YOU NEED A CAR, NO ONE NEEDS A VEHICLE THIS BIG.
But how else can you ensure a 100% fatality rate of everything you run over.
And also make sure that you don't have to see the poor people as you run them over.
The issue is not so much size but height. These things are all over where I am as fleet vehicles and even the good ol' type will comment that they can not see anything in front. Just look at the door or normal car in the background of that picture and you get an idea. These hoods are no joke 1.7 meters high for no other reason then to look mean.
Obligatory...
This is a lot of space to tell me what I already know, that driving my Abrams tank is very safe for me and pretty safe for others
Got me thinking, why don't they put forward facing cameras? Like how we have backup cams.
I mean no offense by this. It's not that it is a bad idea, but an amusingly typical American ways of problem solving.
They don't want to think about safety
It's wild how there's this kind of evolutionary pressure to turn the grills into ever bigger and more menacing threat displays and it just keeps spiralling out of control because the cars in the rear view mirror only keep getting bigger and more intimidating and you constantly need to buy a new ego prosthetic in the form of a suburban tank like this to keep up with the other drivers that signal "I'M GONNA EAT YOU ALIVE" to you during every commute and grocery run. I'm sure manufacturers love that.
I need a pickup truck for farm work, but I hate how big these things have gotten. I wouldn't buy anything made in the past 20 years. All this height for no practical benefit.
Legit, like i understand having a use for that big open storage solution but seeing how they are now too tall to reach is odd as heck.
Old trucks are actual working trucks. The bed is low enough to easily lift heavy objects into. Modern trucks have no practical purpose in mind. They're purely aesthetic. Nearly any load you're lifting into that thing can also be hauled in almost any other vehicle easier. You'd need a forklift to load anything substantial, in which case an old truck or a van would be easier.
GMC named their bro-dozers AT-4. AT as in anti-tank. They're marketing to the suburban tacticool jackasses. Loud exhaust and parking in crowded bus shelters. Yeah fuck these guys.
But what if you want to run over all your children in one go?
We already have horses for that, and you don't even need to drive them yourself.
Self-driving horses are the future.
I got a family!!!
A used ranger accommodated all of my hauling needs with room to spare when I needed it for work. I drove the company pickup which had the double rear tires once and it was awful and I couldn't recommend it even just for doing pickup truck things.
Look, I'm terribly insecure and fragile. You expect me to drive something reasonable?
how else are they supposed to haul around their ego?
How else am I supposed to haul all of my groceries for a week? \s
It's so fucking annoying when I'm trying to turn and check for oncoming traffic and one of these or its smaller cousins pulls up next to me so I can't see
But I need to pick up 50 lbs of mulch from Home Depot once a year ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ