Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km..

That's what I keep thinking about. Like sometimes I would love an older, smaller styled truck. It could be really useful, but it sucks they aren't really an option anymore.

But then I think about it, and how often would I use it? I just bought a TV and had to have it delivered because it wouldn't fit in our car. We recently moved, and it would have been great.

But other than that, I honestly can't think of any time recently I've needed it.

20k just for the cost of the vehicle, probably MORE, plus extra insurance, gas tax cost all to save 50$ once in a while on a truck rental.

Not to mention that a pickup is basically half a completely useless car. You can't sit in the back, you can't really use it for hauling delicate stuff... It's just such a bizzare concept for non farmers.

I put a washing machine in the back of my Toyota matrix.

For real I had a 2003 Hyundai Tiburon a while back. Went to a tool consignment store. Saw a full sized tablesaw with stand. Owner told me he’d give me $25 off if I could fit the whole thing in my Tiburon…and I did. And it wasn’t even hard.

Fr; I have a tiny CRZ coupe, but when I fold the back buckets down I can fit a tremendous amount of stuff in my car, even awkward and unwieldy-shaped things

I fold the seats down in my 12 year old BMW and have moved twice with that car! I even fit my mountain bike in the back many times (until I got a hitch rack because it was annoying lol).

My Prius holds a surprising amount with the back seats down.

Yaris ftw

I'd get one if they were freeway legal everywhere

Oh, they would never put anything in it. That might scratch the bed.

They brag about being able to carry stuff then get one of those stupid long cab short beds that are good at nothing

My Subaru Forester with a roof rack hauls almost anything short of large furniture or a yard of gravel.

Does the remaining 1% get resold by shady people in back alleys? "Hey you, you want a deal on 1% of some produce from a farmer's market? Fell off the back of a Prius."

Seriously, that's a 20-25 minute walk. Perfect, natural exercise opportunity completely wasted!

Not even worth taking the bicycle out.

A Honda Fit would be marginally better. A bicycle would be vastly better.

Or you could choose chaos and badger him to get a Prius lol.

Nothing against Prius owners, they're efficient and reliable cars.

They stopped making the fit.

No? You anti car people know nothing about cars and it shows. Your alternator would have to be dead if it can't charge the battery in a mile.

Short trips don't damage the engine any more than normal wear and tear, it's not like they're redlining the entire mile and a half?

Having a vehicle that emits more pollution, does more damage to roads, and is more likely to kill pedestrians is pretty fucking selfish and deserving of hate.

I don't think it's hate, more like second hand embarrassment.

It suits most of us Americans well! Big, fat, slow, and ugly but full of potential which most of us will never realize! Just the way God intended.

If the people downvoting you really want to make a difference they should:

Stop using leaf bowers: https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-car-vs-truck-vs-leaf-blower.html

Stop eating food not home grown: https://coolclimate.org/blog-cars-coal-cows-consumption

Eat the rich: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/twelve-billionaires-climate-emissions-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-elon-musk-carbon-divide

Instead of judging trucks: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=alts&year=2023&vtype=Diesel&srchtyp=yearAfv&pageno=1

And not little timmy for owning that v8 mustang: https://www.osvehicle.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-sports-cars-are-they-bad-for-the-environment/

For me it's not so much trying to insult them for having a small dick, but insulting them for caring so much about having a small dick they feel the need to compensate.

Doesn't matter that their dick is small, just that they're so insecure about it they need to try and tell the world it's not true.

Two male apes park next to each other:

"You don't fit into the sociocultural group I'm a part of, AKA THE BEST GROUP, because you are not sending the right social signals! Therefore YOU ARE NOT A VERILE MATE FOR THE HOMINID FEMALES!"

"NO! CLEARLY IT IS YOU WHO WILL NOT SEED THE NEXT GENERATION OF OFFSPRING! Based on all the information I've gotten about appropriate social signals for my gender, age, ethnicity, cult, location and socioeconomic status, I am displaying the appropriate signals! So I shall point at you and say WEIRD!"

It's not about actual small dicks, it's just a symbol for insecure men

Well, I kind of agree with you, but also what I intended to say is that I think most pick up drivers don't feel masculine enough, whether it's due to a small dick or something else making them feel like they aren't "real men", so they compensate their insecurity by driving unnecessarily large cars.

Yeah, I maybe should have left the dick part out. A man can have a small penis and still not be insecure, and a man with a huge one can still be insecure about their masculinity and try to fix that insecurity with a stupid truck.

We'll get over it when egos and genetalia lose any correlation.

Not that soon, I'm afraid.

Let's just get inspired by oats jenkins and his idea for redoing the traffic system and add a truck license, and you'll have to renew it every six months, just so they don't keep it forever

The license would be given to people that have genuine need for a vehicle like this, and don't have access to one (so if your job gives you a truck you can have it, it would have the job license on it, but then you cannot have your own license)

Otherwise they would just tell you to go fuck yourself because you don't need a truck like this

The $1,400 it cost me to buy a 5x10 utility trailer was money well spent. It has easily paid for itself over the years. I sold my last pickup years ago. If I need to use the trailer, it takes 5 minutes to hook it up. Having space to store it and a legit need for it are key factors here as well.

Well at that price I'd argue it's pretty reasonable, comparable to a used Toyota.

The pick up trucks I see on sale are closer to 60-80k.

The small business doing the hauling, because the truck owner won't risk scratching the bed of their lovely pickup.

Also it's an arms race. They feel safer because they're comparatively above smaller cars, but then when everyone is riding tall trucks that additional feeling of safety becomes moot as you no longer have the additional height/visibility over everyone else.

And conversely, the reason they feel less safe in smaller cars is because of the comparison to larger cars on the road. They aren't solving anything in a larger vehicle, they're just perpetuating onto others what gave them small-vehicle anxiety in the first place.

The whole concept is stupid, basically.

Dong is infinite

Did you at least buy a smaller truck with the same bed size? or a van?

Lol not only do you have poor reading comprehension, you have also failed to get anyone to believe what you just said. If i may provide some advice, if someone say something on the Internet that doesn't apply to you you do not have to get offened by it. Have a nice day friend.

Hauling firewood and towing an ATV with your penis is quite impressive. I think it's more proper to call it the third leg of your commute, though.

People who need a pickup truck to haul their humungous penis are few and far between

People can down vote you, but they can't argue with this.

You must be the only pickup driver in existence that's figured out that all your pathetic justifications can be debated, but your opinion on what you want cannot be.

Complete with lift kit doing 98 on the freeway

My sister in-law? Broke as fuck, came across a windfall from an accident that never came up before, spent more than a third of it on... a fucking F-150 platinum. Still deep in debt, living in low income housing, doesn't have a job.

It's a gamble to get a used car you know nothing about when you have a truck you know is at least a bit reliable. My family grew up playing used car roulette and it's pretty damn hard to come out ahead in this scenario. Best to run the thing until it dies while saving up for a new or like new vehicle.

Switching costs money. From what he said money might be tight. I buy and sell my own vehicles. It is a job. Most prefer to give up a few grand to not have to do it (you never get paid full market value on a trade in). Even if someone decided to do it themselves they run the risk of losing big time if they're inexperienced. Even though I've been doing it for years even I lose on some of these. When I lose, it's usually close to the cost of the vehicle. I can afford that and in the end I average out really well.But the majority of people can't do that. I get all the hate new big trucks get and I agree. As someone who works in construction I wish station wagons would make a come back. But it's really easy to say "just do x y or z" it's not so easy to do.

And totally not safe for everyday driving to me. Even if the biker himself is a good one ,dumbass right next to him might crush him any second

I have one. It also sucks to ride for an hour, you're eaither sweating, freezing or some other form of uncomfortable.

With the way most cities are designed, a bicycle is not a safe option for day to day transportation for most people.

Or get yourself a nice plug-in hybrid... E-bike

Yeah, I'm not going to spend 6 hours driving a bicycle to work and back.

Guys with pointlessly big trucks have sexual hangups relating to their parental figures. Boom.

Slaps roof

"This baby can fit so many of my father's hugs in it, but it won't because he left my mother and I, and although I had to live with him and my stepmom from ages 13 to 18 due to my behavioral issues, I can't bare the thought that I'm anything like him and that my mother began drinking to numb the pain of having to raise me alone, so I find solace in lashing out against women that treat me well, and will stop at nothing until I can repeat the generational cycle by having a baby with a woman that looks and acts like my mother so I too can abandon my child, because I hate myself."

This shit happens in the parking garage I use too and it amazes me. I drive a small sedan and I refuse to park in those spots bc I'm terrified some idiot will sideswipe me (I have actually seen this happen to other vehicles). I can only imagine it's some sort of flex bc people have to avoid their oversized tiny-penismobile.

The job is only a few kms away, the boss just likes taking the scenic route

I'm not getting the major picture here...

I'm getting old and am a whitewater kayaker. You have to go where the water is which means a lot of long road trips and long weekends. Setting up and tearing down camp constantly wears you down. Now I pull in. Sleep. Can drive part way and sleep at a truck stop. Much nicer. Mine has the bed over the garage so bikes and snowboards can just live there all the time too. Most creek and freestyle boats fit inside too until I get around to putting the racks on. Then I'll also have an awning and solar.

Yeah, it would be nice if those were still made.

Full BEV maverick please. Ford, you’re soooooo close.

It's rated at 22 city 26 hwy, do you really get that much?

The super short bed looks a little less than useful but I do like the idea of an actually small truck because every truck these days is monstrosly large.

How's the legroom in the second row? I love the aesthetic of the Santa Cruz and that it's not an obnoxiously large truck while still capable of hauling and towing stuff. I did notice that the space inside looks pretty tight.

Bragging about how bad their gas mileage seems like the redneck's version of inserting vacation and cruise stories into conversations

He might wanna see a mechanic because a vehicle, even a truck, should only cost 80 bucks for a trip like that if it's leaking gas the whole way.

Heck, most countries that use dollars use metric!

Some Americans in the science community also use metric almost all the time

Naw, it's just a bullshit number. A large truck driven in poor conditions for fuel efficiency will still get 12-13mpg.

No. It's made up fantasy land propaganda that gets eaten up. This is 5th grade math and could be easily identified as bullshit with a passing glance.

That would explain truck nuts