same bed length

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The masses yearn for the Ford Ranger.

So why not just use the van? At least the cargo space is covered from the elements. Most people who drove these yank tanks don't actually need the truck part.

Actually minivans have more utility cause you could take out the middle row. And they had the sliding door and hatch and were more compact .

It's penis. He means penis. Like, probably the length and girth of his penis. No one ever mentions penis color or how hairy it is (those are Jeep guys), just always the size.

It’s Joe Biden’s fault that my truck gives shitty gas mileage

And potentially family. It's a 4 door truck. It's a transportation vehicle with a bed and slightly greater towing capacity than a sedan. Lot of suburban dads have these.

In this case it’s not about body shaming but about shaming a means of compensation. Also it’s not really a literal take. “Big dick energy” has nothing do with actual dick size. And being a “Karen” has nothing to with a persons actual name or gender.

Neither is trashing the climate with pointlessly big vehicles just to compensate for whatever insecurities they have. We need to either tax or regulate these stupid vehicles back to a reasonable and safe size.

Wow hot take

But the body on right is so much bigger, and takes up so much wasted space!

The smaller body on the left is more fuel efficient too.

Plus, body shaming when you're ugly and useless like that is okay.

who did that?

nervous laughter in cyclist*

Better to get the one that's specifically designed to kill toddlers then. If children have to die so you can be less scared of a "mash up" then it's all worth it.

American 🫵😐

Typical "Everyone drives a big truck so I will too!" mindset that misses the core issue on why kei trucks are the better ones. You simply can't imagine a world where the Ford Death Cruiser 4 billion doesn't exist.

With the right lift kit even adults are not safe.

They actually don't have very good fuel economy, around 20 mpg.

I can put my tools in the back of my truck cabin. And have the entire bed ready for materials.

I’d also never want to go over 40 mph or get on a suburban freeway in a Kei truck. You will die instantly in an accident otherwise. Their are zero safety features. And they’re not comfortable for any trip with any distance.

Kei truck is for people who work for the metropolitan city and never leave, or a university, or a golf course. Not a private contractor.

Full size trucks aren't bad on gas anymore. The F-150 comes with a 2.7 litre turbocharged V6 base now, or you can upgrade to the 3.5L twin turbo V6 or 3.5L hybrid V6. Check your local dealers page, you won't find many 1/2 ton trucks with V8s anymore. They also have aluminum bodies and a 4-door weighs about the same as a regular cab shortbed truck did 20 years ago. Is the truck in the pic significantly more useful than the Kei truck? Not really unless you need to tow with it, or need the cabin space or seating.

This is 100% NOT a 6.5ft bed. At all.

Not every Kei truck has the same specs. Kei truck refers to a number of different brands of truck and most offer different length beds. This is NOT a 6.5 foot long bed. The Chevy has a 5.5 foot bed. Put a ruler up to both and you'll see the Kei truck bed is shorter.

Edit: down voted for stating facts about Kei trucks. This is definitely a place for reasonable discussion.

I think you mean carused.jp.

The Suzuki Carry is the one I really wanted. I've a soft spot for tiny suzuki vehicles.

Every time I mention not being able to find one in early 2022, people come along to show me where I can get one now. The issue was, I couldn't find one when I needed it.

It was half the price of the next cheapest truck on the lot, and the next cheapest truck had twice the miles. But the next cheapest truck had all the whiz-bang fancy electronics, instead of being four wheels and a truck bed.

Yeah sure but I guess my point was that it's a false equivalency. The truck on the right is massively more capable than the one on the left. I certainly don't need one that big and most people don't.

Legit I know guys that don't even need one for work or anything, just get one for ego

Maybe sometimes, but it's also just a massively more capable vehicle. Sometimes the simplest answer is the truth.

Oh, marshrutka

So many good memories, got replaced with better buses in my city

But a van and a truck are used for different things. Your not going to see a van around the farm for example because it just isn't that useful for farm work. Just like your not going to see a truck out delivering packages because it just isn't the useful for that use case. Many of these vehicles have the exact same frame and engion just with a different body on top for whatever best fits the use case.

In addition to the payload. Payload goes in the back! Fill it with stones then put five men in it to shovel the stones. You'd need two vans for the same purpose. And if it's roughly the same size, what's the problem? Vans like that can be nice too, we see lots of Ford transits here in the states for tradesmen. Similar use case to what you're describing.

Please show us a kei truck with less fuel economy then any truck sold in the US in the last lets say 15 years. Hell you can even remove the exhaust altogether and you will be lucky to get a truck double the fuel need of any of those "mini-trucks" as you call them.

Nobody does work out of that truck, it has a bed cover and the wheels don't look like they have any mud or dirt caked in the tread/wheels. It's a little pavement princess that probably carries one person 75% of the time.

• Pick up 20 extra people
• Or pick up 30 extra people if some of them can stay
• Have enclosed trunk(you still can leave doors in the back open)
• Lower bed
• Can carry bigger payloads

The 3 extra people is a valid reason to not want the smaller truck. Still wouldn't need to be so monstrous.

I'm guessing it was a joke meaning "I might kill others but I'll survive"

A truck like the front one is driven by someone with nothing to prove.

You're right! It's true! Little cars make penises look bigger based on relative sizes!

Ever wonder why this thing can only go 55 MPH? Yup, my Magnum dong! Nothing slows down a truck like moving around that hunk of meat, let me tell you! Now about our date.

inverse ratio

He kind of touches base on that in the second video. But it definitely plays a part.

My ranger is 3200 pounds.

Edit: Just checked cuz I was curious, and that is only 300 lb more than the Tesla model 3. Your comment felt rude and unnecessarily aggressive. I hope you're having a good night.

It's sad to say, but that generation of Ford Ranger is way smaller than trucks from the last decade.

Man, I tried finding one of those cool websites where you can put like two cars together to compare their size. But it doesn't have the year of my ranger. But yeah, they're smaller than the new trucks by a lot. And they weigh about half as much. If you can get one of the older Toyota's or like a cool little Datsun, they're a little bit smaller, but really kind of in the mid 2000s was when trucks really started blowing up in size and absurdity.

As in, not grotesquely oversized?

Yikes?! A Ford RANGER is considered a small truck to you?? They're part of the growing plague of stupidly large trucks in my part of the world!? :-/ I mean I knew the US had big trucks but I never thought the Ranger would be considered the small alternative?! We're so screwed?! :-(

The Tacoma is definitely not a smaller truck.

Really really old. I hope you are a capable mechanic.

They ain't made em small for decades.

Nah mate. I have a Colorado that I've actually used a lot and it's still not good enough

How do you like the Santa Cruz. I'm really interested in it.

I think you mean Santa Cruz? The sante fe is/was an suv

*Santa Cruz

you’d be utterly fucked if you had a burst pipe and he wasn’t allowed to drive in the city.

Who said anything about not being allowed to drive? He can drive wherever he likes; I'm just saying we shouldn't fuck up the street building the parking spaces. Where he parks the thing should be his own problem (or his client's landlord's problem, as the case may be), not imposed on the public.

It may seem like I'm nitpicking, but that distinction is really important. There is an oddly pervasive issue in urbanism debates where the car-brains and the NIMBYs make a habit of trying to frame the issues precisely ass-backwards. For example, you suggest abolishing restrictions on zoning -- literally removing government regulations -- and they call you a "big government communist." Or you talk about adding extra ways to get around by improving bike and ped infrastructure, and they accuse you of trying to take away their freedom to drive.

Or, as in this case, you talk about simply not bending over backwards to make special extra accommodations for cars (i.e. not spending public resources -- both money and space -- to build parking spaces), and it gets misconstrued as proposing banning driving. I'm not saying you're a car-brain or a NIMBY, but I'm just saying it's apparently real easy for people to slip into that Bizarro-World mindset and it needs to be called out when it happens.

I have a Daihatsu Hijet on my property. Pretty much use it like a quad. Spray paint camo job, 4x4, dump bed, w/ rear locker. Pretty awesome at pulling shit, getting thru muddy spots, etc.

I’ll say this - that little Hijet is a much, much more capable little rig than my 2014 Taco, let alone the stupid bro-dozer in the picture. I’ll probably bring it with me elk hunting next year so I can load up the bed with elk quarters and crawl out of the bush

Fair!

Still, I'm under the impression that some of this "trucks" can have surprisingly small engines given their size.

I had a Yamaha fjr1300 motorcycle. The engine in it was almost twice that truck engine

No this is the social media website called lemmy. If it’s not about games, Linux, or coding you’re gonna get lots of disinformation.

The Suzuki Carry, like many kei trucks has foldable bed sidewalls, like those home Depot trucks. So Americans would never go for it as it's not sexy.

At $14,000 for a used 94 variant, not sure if it's worth it.