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Automaker Ford recalls almost 42,000 F250, F350 trucks for safety
(scrippsnews.com)
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Maybe stop making them.
Is it really that the truck shouldn’t exist, or that people shouldn’t drive them as an everyday vehicle? I mean they have a purpose, and it’s not getting beer and chips from the grocery store.
I’m good with the disapproval of the people that suck, but I feel like it’s getting directed incorrectly.
Bigger vehicles should require higher license classes that require more driver training, fees, legality, and roadworthiness checks.
They do here in the US.
I'm referring to full-size trucks and SUVs such as the F250 and F350, which the article is specifically about. Not commercial vehicles.
There really is no use for those vehicles. I am sure someone can come up with a contrived edge case but I don't care.
Ever heard of farming? I don't think it's an edge case.
There are legitimate uses. Suburban grocery getters is not one of them though.
My inlaws are farmers and I spent part of my childhood on a failed one. Tell me what task a F350 would preform that it alone could perform luxury features and all. Cause my inlaws do fine with their mopeds and tractors.
It is amazing to me how this works. You are intellectually aware that over half the human race lives in a belt from India to South East Asia but you assume that literally everyone you talk to online is some accountant from the burbs. So weird. I have rode in the back of a heavily modified small pickup, I have driven a moped, I have changed the battery acid on my moped, I have milked the cows, and gleaned, and shovels shit. Stop assuming that I can't grasp what a farm is like when I have been and helped out on ones in one of the poorest parts of the world.
Look, between me and you. We both know why men with low to no skill jobs buy these vehicles. They are trying to have something big and important looking to distract away from somethings that are not so big or important. Me I drive a small economy car, because I have no shame in that department.
Someone who doesn't actually work for a living, I take it...
Me or those truck owners?
What load do you have that can only be moved by a fully loaded F350. I will wait why you come up with a contrived situation.
Could just answer the question instead of attacking the tone. But you won't because you got nothing.
Attack the argument not the tone.
I see no examples where a F350 is the only vehicle that can do the tasks listed.
No because you haven't actually answers the question.