Up to this day they correct their street name to be Little Richard.
Thought I had stumbled into a vore / feeder comm for a moment.
Can you put a Beetle or Smart onto the back of the cancer?
Geez, how much compensating do they need?!? Is it that bad? Like, button-mushroom size?
The shift to these ridiculously large trucks is partially consequent of the poorly-implemented Obama fuel economy regulations. The regulations were determined by wheelbase and tread width, which disincentivized manufacturers from making mid- or small-sized trucks. The bigger they made them, the less restricted they were by fuel economy. Larger vehicles also ease constraints on engineers; they don't have to struggle fitting a lot into a small body. Once large trucks became the default offering, they morphed into the annoying cultural "status" symbol we know today.
Anyway I have a Miata MX-5 and I love my tiny car.
The CAFE act caused most of these changes and was signed by Clinton in the early '90s. Obama may have made things worse, but the roots of the problem go back much further
Fuck you, Ford!!
But I need my insanely large blacked out, lifted, with black rims, f-250. I have to get 3 bags of groceries.
Of course off-road capabilities are required. How else would I drive on nicely paved suburban roads?
Guess what destroys offroad performance though?
An insanely long wheelbase coupled with a top heavy design....
Well, it's marketed to the same people who think that a Cybertruck is an offroad vehicle.
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