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  • I imagine it's pretty much the same in UK - a lot of the people using them for work might be better off with a small van.

    But then, they don't look 'manly' do they?

    • What does a van offer that a small truck wouldn't? Other than opportunity for passengers. Since its a work vehicle passengers isn't generally a concern since basically anything you can buy can handle atleast 2 people. Covered space? Get a cap. Need more Clearance for a fridge you intend on plugging in right away? take the cap off. Over sized item in more ways than one like a couch or bed? you can drop and remove the tailgate. I have yet to see a small van that can be all that customizable?

      Edit:

      You can down vote but you should add to the discussion. Can we get the numbers on people that have vans and aren't using them to capacity or carrying anything. How about the amount that drive passenger cars that are driving 2+ occupant but serves no more utility than a bicycle that's faster.

      To add to the numbers my house hold has a 4 door sedan and a pickup. But we are dual income with no kids. What should I drive instead? so I live 30 miles from work because who is so lucky to work next door and wife is 20 miles fron work. I also do things like move fire wood and mow lawns and... Really do you want a list of all the things I would have to rent a truck for? I have a cap for my bed and have pulled it to move larger stuff. Just because you dont have to do a thing or have a thing or what ever.... Doesn't mean there is t a use case which doesn't involve using someone else's and just using your own.

      • What does a van offer that a small truck wouldn't?

        A much, much higher degree of safety. Because vans don't typically have those absurdly high and long bonets that make it so you could run over multiple children without even seeing them there.

  • I got a 2004 Silverado 1500 and I couldn't be happier with it. It's not a giant penile enhancement. Its just a normal sized truck. I use it as a daily driver and grocery getter. But when I need a truck to haul shit I got it.

  • Why do I keep getting recommended this sub. Wtf is this place even for?? Is it hating on cars or hating on car owners??

    WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS PLACE TO BEGIN WITH???

    • A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let’s explore the bad world of Cars!

      From the sidebar. If you don't like it, block the community instead of complaining and typing in full caps with excessive punctuation like some boomer on Facebook.

      • Jesus fuck, you didn't have to go and insult me. The sidebar was enough but even then I still don't understand wtf the point of the sub at all or why it's constantly recommended to me. :/

        I use a buncha caps and punctuation all the time cus im autistic, it's in all my comments and posts; for me it's like I'm putting my thoughts as they are on the screen. So if I wanna scream or emphasize somethin then I put it in all caps.

        I don't really like having to block whole ass communities like that, cus what if there IS an interesting post I see from there?? I like just being able to tell Lemmy "Hey, stop showing me this" instead of blocking.

        And im not even complaining really I just:

        A. dont understand what this post is trying to tell me.

        B. what this has to do about cars being bad.

        C. Why fuckcars is the only one shown to me and not something else like Anti-child or Anti-work or anti-anything else.

        And the sidebars are often useless compared to the actual behavior of the community. Scrolling the comments, it's just a lotta people going "Yea I know a guy who ALWAYS drives his truck with stuff in it, fukin chump." and some (Seemingly) sour attitudes towards truck drivers for carrying a buncha stuff in their trucks.

      • Also you can't get miffed at me for supposedly "Complaining" about the point of the community

        Deadass the title is fuckcars. 90% of everyone here is complaining about something jerkass

        Its always Anti-"Insert topic" subs that, when I ask why they exist and what's the point, people immediately insult me instead of either going "Myeh we don't all just hate on cars here, just specific things like 'Insert specific things'" or just answering the question. Its always "WELL IF YA DON'T LIKE IT GET OUT!"

        Maybe it is the caps, but I never badmouth anyone or anything when I ask, Im just super confused and wanna understand. But I get told to fuck off.

    • It's to promote and advocate for alternatives to car dependence.

      • What alternatives?? Every post here is either complaining about roads, traffic, or specific cars?? I have yet to see someone go "Ah, just finished a bike run! Feeling real good!"

    • It’s actually mainly about hating car-dependent infrastructure. The stuff that makes cities impossible to conveniently get around unless you’re in a car, because cycling distances are too far and force you to mix with fast-moving cars due to lack of separated paths. And public transport is expensive and slow, if it exists at all, because cities choose not to invest in it and even if they wanted to it’d be more expensive for them than if cities were planned better.

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