• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        There are some scenarios where pickup trucks make perfect sense, and I’ve even seen family pickup trucks being utilized by construction workers. It’s another question that today’s construction workers are quite often the rich douches, the lack of front view due to the front hood of the car, or that we already have an issue of people “needing” a work car for a laptop bag.

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          7 days ago

          I see a lot of construction companies sport like one raptor or other silly ass pick-up truck. But not for the workers, they use buses, obviously. The raptor is always clean and. Is just for the boss to cruise around and he can still claim he needs it to get to construction sites.

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      7 days ago

      And of course it’s a techbro lmfao. You can’t make this shit up.

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      7 days ago

      I assume they are talking about the newer models that have worse sight lines than literal tanks.

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          7 days ago

          Yeah… that was a bummer. I don’t think cybertruck and its mountain of failures is helping the case for “macho” evs

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            7 days ago

            Not sure what qualities a car has to make it macho, but I saw a Fiskar Ocean the other day on the road in matte forrest green, and thought it was pretty sexy. I don’t know their pitfalls yet, but it was enough to make me look them up. Not a fan of the giant screen in the middle, but maybe it would grow on me.

            Edit: and they might be declaring bankruptcy and selling off their assets… Welp that sucks

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            7 days ago

            I was hoping to get a used one in a few years to use on the farm. The range and load capacity would be well within most errands. I’m now eyeing an Edison Motor’s kit for an old square body.

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        7 days ago

        Well true, but have you looked at european SUVs lately? They’re getting there and i don’t see the EU doing anything to limit dimensions.

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          7 days ago

          This comment is pure Whataboutism. You asked what was wrong with the F150’s and you got answered. And your response is, “well, the european ones are probably gonna do it too!”

          C’mon man.

          Regardless of who’s doing it, it still sucks and is bad.

          • 0x0@programming.dev
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            7 days ago

            I know a lot of people thought i was defending the F150s - i wasn’t, just asking - and i never said i liked them.

            I don’t, i think new pick-up trucks are ridiculous and the artificial enlargement is equally ridiculous and dangerous. Yet they sell in the EU, don’t they?

            The enlargement trend isn’t exclusive to pick-up trucks and has long since been adopted by SUVs. The BMW X6 is sold in the EU.

            Even the fucking Hummer is sold in the EU! That should not be road legal.

            So the takeaway is that ruling bodies don’t really care about pedestrians, but that’s a known fact, so going after a particular model because it’s cool to do so is just dumbshit hive mentality, be it the cybertruck or another vehicle. Then again, someone else in the comments got downvoted as well for condemning vandalism so… typicial redditlemmy i guess.