vrri funi, I agree
For a second I thought this was a damn advertisement.
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I like you picking a Scania and a Peterbuilt to represent real trucks. A person of great taste for sure.
where’s the hilux? I know which category it’s in, but I don’t see it with either the actual-work-vehicles or the gender affirming vehicles.
Bottom right is a Toyota Tacoma, which is just the American version of the Hilux. It also doesn’t fit with the meme as it is a mid-size pickup and the rest of the “emotional support” category are full-size pickups. The Toyota equivalent would be the Tundra, which is not pictured.
They’re starting to convert the tacoma into an emotional support vehicle unfortunately, with the latest model year. :(
There are real pickup trucks too, but I don’t see any in this meme and I rarely see them in the street.
Does my 2001 Toyota Tacoma single cab count?
australia has them far more commonly than american land yachts. we call them utes rather than pickups though (ute = utility) and mostly they’re driven by tradies (you can guess that one ;p)
Maybe I am remembering the wrong movie but I feel like I learned that in a cheesy romcom, “A Perfect Pairing.” Always be a guilty pleasure for me, always wonder if those are more offensive in their depictions of slang/dialect than accurate.
As long as it has a usable bed
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And they you have the real “I’m here to work” truck. Either that or they have a van. Sometimes you see a pickup truck here, but they’re always used by the bosses and inspection.
A real man drives a Suzuki Carry!
edit: image searched “small japanese pickup” on DDG initially… got a whole other set of results 🤣
wdym 🤔
Naturally, I won’t post the relevant screen as they are not blurred out, but you can possibly guess what came up for me…
I have no idea why I got such radically different results. I am in the UK if that changes anything.
Maybe DDG knows i’m a car enthousiast and you’re… uhhh
If I set my region to the UK (Verenigd Koninkrijk), I get the same results as you
The first step in healing is accepting one’s porn addiction, bro. I’m here for you, bro.
is that safe search on or off? not sure what uit means.
aan = on, uit = off
uit means off
And as a bonus getting hit with one will send you to a fantasy world
We use pick-ups / utes in forestry work quite a bit. It’s the only vehicle that really meets our needs… surprisingly good stretcher carriers in an absolute emergency too.
Got a lot of love for our sprinter tipper, but it’s more for parkland and golf courses and some of the farms we work at.
Dickgirl with a CDL here: I love pickup trucks, at least anything bigger than a half-ton. You can get a lot of work done, pull a lot of shit and other things with a properly outfitted truck. I’m tired of people pretending like Japanese light trucks have any sort of similar capabilities, capacities, or safeties that half-tons have.
First of all, bed space doesn’t mean jack if you don’t have the suspension to hold it or the brakes to stop it in motion. Then, the engine: half-tons can have 6.7L Diesel engines while Japanese light trucks only have 0.66L engines by Japanese law. Good luck pulling anything with that.
Next, people LOVE to pretend like there aren’t any uses for half-tons meanwhile I used them every day in my road maintenance job. Sometimes medium-duty trucks are just too fucking big for what you want to use them for. Supply runs and picking up trash is easy in a pickup, but annoying as fuck in a dump truck.
If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit, then sure. But I love me some half-tons and I’m tired of people shitting on them
If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit,
As a son of a man who bought a brand new truck every other year and never used them to transport anything ever, I’m laughing exclusively at this group, yes.
People shit on them because while there are people that actually use them for real work daily that’s like maybe if I’m being super generous 5% of the market of trucks. Even out in rural areas like I am where it’s over two and a half hours to the nearest grouping of buildings large enough to even pretend to be called the city the majority of the people out here with their big ass lifted trucks never take them off the pavement and never do any real work with them.
They are just driven around as status symbols and I’m tired of seeing them, the best part being that my little smart fortwo can literally off road better than most of these four wheel trucks out here thanks to it’s short wheelbase, and I have a variable suspension so I don’t even have to be permanently dumb lifted to do it
I think the number of people they kill and the fact that 99.99% of them are used as gender affirming vehicles for cis men or fear totems for suburban white women means we should not have them.
yes, there is a narrow use case. sure. but a sufficiently souped up small truck designed to modern spec without the limits of japanese law would probably do most of that fine, and the ability to do any, or even all of that, is not worth the cost in human lives and greenhouse gasses that these cause.
I live in Wyoming and I want to get a 4x4 half ton with a full bed so in the winter I can slap a hydraulic flat bed on it for two snowmobiles and a snow plow on the front. In the summer it would tow my ruggedized camper and maybe dirt bikes in the bed.
They are super useful but “luxury” and/or urban pick-ups have given them a bad reputation.
I would say that less than half the pickup trucks in the US have ever towed a single trailer, maybe one in four have towed a uhaul to help a buddy move once. Even guys working construction barely do anything that actually requires a pick-up. The boss’s truck will move all the heavy expensive stuff, but a van works even better since you can lock everything up and not have to worry about someone stealing your tools while you are out to lunch.
…less than one in ten…
My dad drove an 86 Nissan 720 when I was a kid that looked exactly like the second small truck and I would kill for a modern version. I usually stick stuff in the back of my RAV4 and that mostly works, but there are times I need an open bed and have to rent a pickup. Give the people what they want! Baby trucks!
People want crossovers, unfortunately.
the “pushed in muzzle” is because of pedestrian safety requirements ironically
Really? Everything I’ve heard about pedestrian safety suggests that its better to go onto the hood rather than be pushed down and go under the wheels.
It seems like this design would do exactly that, in addition to creating a blind spot directly in front of the vehicle. Though I suppose these trucks are so tall you’re likely to go under anyway.
the “hit em in the fuckin head so they don’t suffer” requirement?
Can’t report hitting a pedestrian if you never saw or felt the pedestrian you hit
Gender affirming care
holy shit pls tell me you made that
hey, i saw an ESV actually full of stuff in its back part yesterday
it only took 17 years to see one!
The way I see it, if your personal vehicle that you own or rent is tall enough that you need some sort of step type thing just to be able to get in or need to lift your legs more than a couple feet in the air to get in, you are a small child masquerading as an adult. Same thing applies if a 5 year old can stand directly in front of your vehicle and you cannot see them.
Only exceptions are disabled people (you should probably get a lower to the ground vehicle if you’re disabled in a way that makes it hard to climb into a vehicle), and people who are genuinely short (like dwarfism type stuff, in which I question why you have such a tall vehicle in the first place).
If someone doesn’t agree, then I propose we also call these trucks
Never seen anyone own a van just to own a van though. Either a camper and not the daily driver, for work, 6+ kids, or converted for wheelchairs.
Never seen anyone own a van just to own a van
Exactly
I’d love a Ranger or an Amarok…truth is it would be wank to drive, expensive to maintain and run, impractical, and horrendous to park. Plus I have no use for it whatsoever.
Don’t give people any ideas, I’m sure some would commute in a semi if they thought it made them more manly.
