Emotional support vehicles

Gotta stuff those fat americans in there somehow.

As an American, this is a SMALL truck. Too many of the fuckers here drive trucks that would crush both cars and keep going with a gentle bump... oh lord my Country is tragic...

As someone who works in heavy industry as a crane operator, regularly totes around big rigging, outrigger pads, and all of the gear and tools required for my trade, and then drives onto job sites that look like apocalyptic motocross tracks with deep mud, gravel and sand, I need a full size pickup. You can’t take your car where I need to go.

That said, I’d guess 95% of full size truck owners probably drive theirs to the office parking lot and back, and use their bed for nothing but groceries. It’s a cultural thing, that what should be a specialized work vehicle is co-opted as a hillbilly luxury/status vehicle.

So, don’t hate all of us. I’m guessing you need the roads and bridges and infrastructure and apartment buildings that I build. I need a truck to make it happen.

One of these has definitely hauled more than the other, and i guarantee you it’s not the ford.

I don't know, the Ford looks like it has to carry around a really big ego.

I’m American and live in an older suburb of a fairly large city. Half of the neighborhood seems to have a full sized truck, an extra large SUV or both in their driveway. The reason they are in the driveway is that most people can’t fit these vehicles in their garage. Older homes have smaller garages built for the cars made at the time. On the few occasions I need to haul large items I can rent a truck from the hardware store by the hour, or a cargo van for the day.

You don’t see those very often in Europe but when we do it’s always a good laugh followed by a sad sigh. What an ugly piece of crap.

I can't take cars like this seriously, I just assume whoever drives them is a total piece of shit

If you actually need a truck, you wouldn't be buying the one on the right.

The F150 was the most sold car in the US last year. I've never seen so much of those in Montreal CA in over 20 years. We.are.doomed.

I have a Toyota Previa. It's a wonderful little van, but it's designed in such a way as to be able to effortlessly transport a stack of drywall in the back. I guarantee my van's hauled more than that giant bloated mess of a ford...

Fiat Panda gang Fiat Panda gang

You know what Ford stands for? Fix it again, Tony

What I dislike about these threads is that it always devolves into shitting on blue collar workers. Of course pickups are useless city cars but have you all ever met somebody from a town of 1,000 people where every single person works in a blue collar trade? These things do work that you can't do in a different type of vehicle.

Threads like this are echo chambers of privilege. Maybe instead of shitting on tradespeople, shit on car and oil companies who enshittify the whole system.

Also pickups in 2023 that look like this are more powerful and more fuel efficient than more modest looking pickups from 90s or 00s. You may not like the aesthetics of it, but who fucking cares, you're not driving it, you're just the one judging someone else for having different taste.

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

And that's the small Ranger! The F150 is large in comparison to the Ranger.

Especially when following the law that the larger the car, the less capable the driver.

I went to the philharmony last Sunday, and the number of people with large and expensive cars who were less than capable to park them properly in an underground car park was hilarious.

Imagine getting this worked uo about one of the smallest trucks on the market. You can't make this shit up!

I hope you find peace, friend

I was thinking buying a fiat panda, how is it ?

In the States, that Ford is considered a mid-size truck. The F-150 is considerably larger and they are everywhere.

This is only a ranger, so not even a big pickup by American standards.

I think most cars would look big next to the Fiat.

I'm pretty tall. I move a lot of family members around on rare occasions. I go for week-long trips out of town in my car. I barely drive it in town (usually evenings and weekends and not even every evening or weekend). My car isn't quite that behemoth but it is large enough for what I need. I have helped with over 4 home moves in that car and even used it to transport a fridge to a civic waste site.

It does the job fine. I've never felt the need to get a pickup truck. Some people probably have genuine use cases. The majority probably don't. Those things are wild.

It looks like a caricature. Kinda like Into the Spider-Verse's version of Kingpin in vehicle form.

driving something that big just seems frustrating.

Have you started noticing some cars are now the same height level of a semi truck? These people are so ridiculous.

As a Subaru Baja owner, I'm inclined to agree. Though I did upgrade to overload springs in the rear, mostly to keep it from sagging as much when hauling heating pellets each winter.

Lots of people in this thread shitting on some random person. What’s the point of all this? Y’all are acting like the Ford driver is an ass hole but from the evidence in this thread I don’t think they are the ass hole here.

You will probably like this Documentation about the reasons why SUVs in the usa are so popular.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

What's crazy, is that you'll never see any of these large Utes which are dirty. But, many of the same people who buy a vehicle with such high high clearance are also the exact people who exaggerate the size of potholes around, and the cost of EV's (despite paying a huge amount in petrol and servicing that would dwarf the cost of battery replacements in 15 years).

For a few seconds i was thinking of importing a Nissan Armada to Germany. Then i came to my senses and got a Taycan.
Why did i want an Armada? What happened in my brain that made me go "big car cool need"

https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA

Even the brand name on the grid is like

FORD

As if it was made for children with reading impairment

It looks like a "human-feature compensation device"

Did you let their tyres down?