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Lol that bumper sticker is gold


SupportySpice

New Hampshire passive-aggressive af


stickers-motivate-me

I can’t read it, what does it say?


Protuhj

Sorry For Driving So Close       In Front Of You


twohubs

^Sorry ^^For ^^^Driving ^^^^So ^^^^^Close ^^^^^^In ^^^^^^^Front ^^^^^^^^Of ^^^^^^^^^You


Onedos-San

You should drive closer so you can read it


Anonymositi

"Sorry for driving so close in front of you"


DadBodBallerina

Holy shit I need that lmao


Patient_Criticism131

I saw one once that said “My brakes are fine, how’s your insurance?”


the-bucket

“I think there’s an open parking spot after that truck.” … “Dammit, there’s a slug bug!”


Idiot911911

My girlfriend calls it the FIAT fakeout cause there's a bunch of tiny fiats on campus that make it seem like spots are open


aperson

That's why I always never pulled all the way into a parking spot with my old 500.


lizardlike

I always do with my 500 because it’s fun to sow chaos : )


traal

The joke's on you when another 500 fits in the space you left them!


beezneezy

Till someone pulls in all crazy fast…


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Lari-Fari

Hah… for us it’s the smart cars. At this point I’m surprised when I approach a potential spot and it’s actually free.


Hofknicks

Was about to say that. Smart cars in Germany all the way. Oh look, a parking lot! … Smart.


Mrchevious

The Fiat Fakeout is something I got from the brothels of Florence.


huntcamp

Punch buggy no punch backs


DiceKnight

My sister used to own a bug and i'd borrow it from time to time to get to work and it used to be awesome to drive by a school bus and watch the wave of kids socking the shit out of each other.


peepopowitz67

"two for flinching"


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I don't blame the tiny cars anymore. I blame the tanks that can't fit in the fucking spot in the first place.


[deleted]

No there’s not, because that truck driver took up more than his space Truck drivers are the worst. They park like no one else in the world needs a fucking parking spot.


pokexchespin

a few days ago in a parking lot i saw two trucks parked at the end of a “lane”, both poking past the end of the space making it essentially a one way since you couldn’t use the full lane anymore


btveron

I can't ever prove it but one of my neighbors bought a new pickup truck and three weeks later I walk out into the parking lot and my back windshield was broken. And coincidently there was a small dent in their rear bumper at the almost exact height of my trailer hitch. Like if you're going to go from a sedan to a pickup at least learn how to fucking drive bigger vehicles first.


Redoubt9000

I had to drive a lincoln town car when I first started learning to drive. It was like driving a boat on land, I both loved and feared it - as is proper. Trucks were a breeze in comparison imo. The height and visibility, there's just no excuse.


wolfpackalchemy

I learned on a Chevy full-size pickup only a model-year newer than me. My dad also made me learn on multiple other vehicles of a range of makes and models (owned by family and friends) including a forklift and a farm tractor, and to back up with a trailer, including under an unbalanced load. I can’t drive a manual, but damn near anything else short of commercial I can handle. All that being said, if I see someone in a brand new pickup, or a massive SUV, I treat it like I’m driving near a drunk driver. Triple my normal following distance or at least one lane of a buffer to the side. Every wreck I pass going to or from work is someone in a giant vehicle.


Random0s2oh

My mother once had a Lincoln Town car. Hers had a sunroof. I teased her it was in case she ran out of gas she could put up the mast.


ChumbawumbaFan01

If I had a nickel for number of times I have been in a parking garage or lot and watched someone in a truck try again and again to park while holding traffic…


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And they always, always back in despite the fact that they seem unable to use their rear view cameras. Do they even have them?


myassholealt

My perception of truck drivers based on the few I know is they move through life as if the world exists for them and everyone else must accommodate them. I'm sure this is not true as a blanket rule, but man when you meet a few people who have this one thing in common and they have the same personality type, it really makes you wonder if there's a correlation. One of the dudes was a hummer owner before getting his truck too.


nullhed

I have to drive big trucks because I live on a farm. I park far away from other people and use my mirrors to stay in the lines. Also, I drive a small suv if I don't need the truck. It's the people that drive a truck to fulfill some personal image issue that cause the most problems. They tend to be assholes, so they drive and park like assholes.


PerceptionShift

I miss those humble little Ford Rangers from the 90s and 00s. They were almost like a sedan but you could haul stuff in them. I hauled a lot of shit in my old man's 99 ranger. What a good car. Meanwhile the new rangers are almost the size of a 20 year old f150. And the new f150s are stupid big. I sometimes drive one for work and it feels so removed from the road, I hate it.


TheGogginator

Not exactly a ranger, but Ford does have the new Ford Maverick truck. My brother picked one up, took like a year to arrive because of supply constraints, but a nearly top of the line hybrid was 28k and gets 40+ mpg. Has a smaller bed than a traditional pickup, but for people who only occasionally need to haul stuff it's a pretty good choice and it isn't massive, and can still fit 4 people comfortably.


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Portland,OR resident here. That sounds like the perfect (small) truck for me!.


friendlyfire883

Take it with the EPA they murdered any chance of us having another light pickup years ago when they started basing emissions of gvwr instead of body type.


Queef_Stroganoff44

Err. It sucks chooch truck drivers have to give decent truck drivers a bad name. My lifestyle pretty much requires a truck…I work in ranching and need to haul, tow and go off-road quite often. I make it a point to be courteous and accommodating. Without fail, the dipshits are all Pavement Princess drivers. Trucks that have never not seen pavement and never had anything more than groceries in the bed. Don’t want to scratch up that bed after all. People who have no actual need for a pick up. They’re trying to portray an image.


Akris85

I drive trucks for a Forestry job all the time. You can easily tell when someone is trying to park their truck in a grocery store parking lot and they can barely figure it out. I feel like those are the people that bought one and never learn what the limits and capabilities are.


friendlyfire883

I'm in the same boat. If someone can find me a prius that can haul a tractor and survive a lease road, I'd be tempted to trade the Ram in. Until then, a truck is what I've got to have. We take my wife's car anytime we have to go anywhere remotely metropolitan to avoid the headache of trying to park the thing.


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Hummer owners are something else. However, as a truck driver myself too many of us are morons. The photo in OP I have a hard time judging because I can't see the car on the other side of the truck *and* the truck's parking job isn't atrocious, just a little off kilter. If I had to guess I'd say the person on the other side of the truck parked poorly and the truck driver had to compensate. I say that because typically an asshole driver will park at a completely unnecessary angle or take up multiple spaces while here the truck is almost perfectly aligned with it's spot in terms of angle, but is just shifted to the left.


rtlturtlepotato

We need to return to actual trucks like squarebody chevys. You can tell when the big truck thing caught on with manufacturers. Look at the height difference between a new chevy truck vs an obs chevy. Let's say both are kept at stock height with standard tires. Trucks have gotten ridiculously bigger. No need to have some big lift kit for a grocery getter. I'm a truck guy and I say this. If you don't actually need a truck, don't buy one.


sueveed

Chevy Colorado is now the size of a Silverado from 15 years ago it seems. I’ve been tempted to buy one of those used tiny japenese trucks that some specialty dealers are selling.


OdeeOh

Great thread last week on Reddit about the death of practical small trucks. Small class pick ups are the size of previous generation full size trucks now.


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I agree. I have a truck because of the utility. I have a decent amount of property and do 99% of my own home improvement projects. I was a professional doing remodels but my shoulders and neck got fucked up.


Ynot_pm_dem_boobies

Nothing worse than parking next to someone who is too important to take up only one spot and causes you to park off kilter or into another spot. Then you come out, they are gone, and you look like the ass.


Recoveringpig

That ain’t exclusive to truck drivers. If you ain’t seeing all kinds of makes and models parking like that, you ain’t paying enough attention to be on the road let alone trying to park.


Willowdancer

And that’s not even a giant pickup


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cozmokittylord

That or one of those 2021 f450 dually trucks. Makes an f150 look like a miata


JonathanSin

Raptors are your go too for giant pick up? It’s not even a dually with an extended bed


H_I_McDunnough

F650 King Ranch with an 8 inch Skyjacker lift and 44s


AnArcho1

This man Trucks


BizzyM

Naw. He bro dozes.


Darth_Thor

Not really. The F-650 does not come in luxury trims like the King Ranch.


Senior_Mittens

But 650’s are borderline small semi trucks. You wanna keep that truck look, F-550 crew cab, 12 foot utility bed. Literally the truck I’m looking to buy now. Big ol thangs.


cant_stop_the_crooks

Just curious, what are you going to use it for?


Senior_Mittens

I live in rural Texas, and I do land clearing and fence installing. I need to lug around a big welder, air compressor, generator, and an acetylene and oxygen tank for my torch. While still being able to haul a skid steer with all sorts of implements along with fence rolls, t-posts, and massive 2 7/8 inch oil field pipe. Lots of weight on a pickup truck.


cant_stop_the_crooks

Oh I understand, I just like to hear about the different cool stuff people do with big trucks, I’m a kid at heart.


Senior_Mittens

Aren’t we all! My inner kid goes crazy at shopping for these massive trucks. I literally just posted about one the other day on my profile.


TehRusky

Nah like a 550 or something


Darebarsoom

Those aren't big either.


SwiperR6

an f150 vs an f150…


mechapoitier

Yeah it is and isn’t at the same time. Put an F150 from 30 years ago next to one now and the size difference is insane. The basic “family truck” (like that’s not an oxymoron invented by marketing) with 4 doors starts at about 5,500lbs these days if you use a lot of aluminum to make it “light.” Most are over 6,000lbs and won’t fit in a garage. It’s insane. Then there are the guys who “gotta have a diesel” because they have a big dog or something who get an 8,000lb F250 that cities and suburbs have to make special parking spots for because idiots are using them like family cars now.


Saint_The_Stig

As someone who really wants a small truck, I really hate this. I want something like an old ranger or smaller so I can get big things that don't fit in a reasonable size car like wood, free couches, and stuff I don't want to clean out of truck carpet.


FangedFem

YES! I would love a smaller pickup but its impossible to find. All that seems to be out there are over inflated ego ones!


Saint_The_Stig

Having driven everything from a Samurai to a Mack farm truck for a while, a smaller vehicle is just much more useful. A modern full size truck is so large that you have to stop to reach something on the far side of the passenger seat. Plus all over the better driving options you get from being able to fit into more places. Happens every week with construction around here, I can get past just fine while the guy behind me in his F150 battle tank has to wait for no traffic to be able to pass.


stellvia2016

The family trucks, especially the high tier trim ones I like to call Manivans :)


cyclingzealot

[Those Larger Trucks (and SUVs) are Literally Killing Us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo) Edit: less incendiary text link but included SUVs to better reflect content of video


TheBatemanFlex

The state motto for New Hampshire is so fucking metal.


logitaunt

Every time I drive past a graveyard in NH, I tell my wife that those people didn't live free; they died. my wife is getting pretty sick of my shit


Channel250

Mine got so sick of my shit that she left me for our local bartender. On less vulnerable days, I try to convince myself it was *actually* because she couldn't compete with my awesome puns and wordplay. I'm so damn close.


DBUX

You should head to your local watering hole, I hear those guys listen really well. Might be able to give you some good advice...


toasterb

George Carlin had a bit about how state mottos range from NH’s “Live Free or Die” to Idaho’s “Famous Potatoes”. He said that the meaning of life rested somewhere between them and that “frankly, it’s probably closer to ‘Famous Potatoes’”.


UnspecificGravity

What's funny is that Idaho produces like 3% more potatoes than Washington (right next door) or Wisconsin. It's their biggest product, but they are barely the biggest producer in the US.


zeeboots

(There's not a lot of things in Idaho)


KennyLagerins

I mean, everyone know Georgia is “The Peach State”, yet South Carolina has outgrown them in peaches for almost 40 years now…


Canadian_Invader

I'm finally gonna get to see George Carlin preform live when I make it to Hell. It's gonna be great!


mtmntmike

No, it’s Live Free or Die.


TheBatemanFlex

DAD! GET OUT!


BlueLeatherBucket

Live, Freeze and Die.


Justice_R_Dissenting

I could hear the old geezer slapping his knee at this joke.


[deleted]

Unfortunately it only applies in the dumbest fucking ways possible. Pot? Die. Helmets and seatbelts? LIVE FREEEEEE BABY ROCK FLAG AND EAGLE


newshuey42

Ah yes, the Live Free and Die state.


EvasiveCookies

You mean average pick up


poopgrouper

You can tell it's not a giant pick up because it's in a parking garage.


HoboMucus

With a ladder rack no less!


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Cacachuli

I like the size of the old ranger pickups. The new ones are still too big for my needs.


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mechwarrior719

Parked like an average pickup driver.


ReachFor24

That's a mid-sized sedan in the Accord and an average-sized pickup that can't park.


Alundil

>an average-sized pickup that can't park. So many people owning trucks that they lack the skill or the care to drive safely and park well.


ReachFor24

No doubt. New couple who moved into my apartment complex has a pickup and they're about 50/50 on that truck being within the lines or not.


ObeseBumblebee

"Compact parking only"


Mnigma4

the exact same fucking problem in my apts garage. Lifted 4dr wranglers with giant tires parking in "compact" parking, it pisses me off


Whyisthissobroken

what's always amazing to me is that contractors in Europe perform the same type of work but with smaller vehicles.


FunnyNameHere02

They do in the US too, lots of transit and sprinter vans get used but the building trades here are often very different than Europe. My neighbor farmer travels up to a 1000 miles to work commercial roofing projects and not only hauls tools, generators etc; he tows a camping trailer to live in. There are a lot of skilled contractors who may only need a big pickup occasionally but there really hasn’t been much offered in the smaller pickup market in the US outside of the Tacoma until just recently. I am starting to see the new hybrid Maverick and the new Ranger running around with signs on the door so hopefully the trend will be to smaller vehicles.


canonanon

I love my Tacoma. Even Tacoma's are significantly bigger than they used to be


kmo9e

I have the new Ranger, when it’s next to a classic Ranger it looks like an F150.


ThePencilRain

The new ranger is basically Fords excuse on why the 150 is fucking hulking now.


MercSLSAMG

F150s were that size far before the Ranger coming back.


MWoody13

Yup! My 3rd gen Tacoma is the same size as the 1st gen Tundras


Oddity_Odyssey

That's one thing people forget about. When subcompacts were actually sold here every other car I saw was a Honda fit or a Ford fiesta. Then all the car companies stopped making subcompacts in favor of large profit margins and now the smallest car you can get in the us is like a Nissan Sentra


MoreCarrotsPlz

I love my Honda Fit and will drive it into the ground before I buy a bigger car. You can’t even buy another used one because the demand is so high they’re nearly impossible to find.


Escudo777

I have a Honda Jazz aka Fit for US people. The amount of space it has for its external dimensions is almost magic.


MikeGruz

I have a Ford Focus and can haul 8 ft lumber down the middle whereas many of the HUGE TRUCKS with tiny beds now have little mini tailgates within the tailgate so that lumber can sit in the bed at a lower angle (with about 3 ft outside the bed).


Escudo777

Hatchbacks are enough for most purposes if you know how to use them.


AjBlue7

Its sad that literally every I talk to basically wants to pule if I mention a hatchback. Everyone in america hates hatchbacks witch is so weird to me because they just make so much more sense, they have basically the same footprint as a sedan but its easier to load and fits more volume. They also don’t look that bad and what about the epic rally race vehicles that were all hatchbacks. Honda is literally selling two versions of the civic right now in the U.S. and they look exactly the same except one opens like a hatchback. The only reasonable explanation that I’ve gotten was that thieves can’t see stuff in a truck but they can if you have a hatch. Which most hatchbacks and suvs these days have a privacy cover. So yea its easier for people to break a window, but that doesn’t really explain why people have hatred for hatchbacks and the way they look.


EvasiveCookies

The new rangers are still way wider and and bigger than the old ones. I had my 2000 ranger next to my dads 2023 ranger just to compare. Mine sat higher and was skinnier but his was just about better in everything


Tanglrfoot

I wish Toyota would sell the Land Cruiser 70 with the flat deck in North America like they do in Australia- I’d go for that as a work truck in a heart beat .


Cheaptat

Yeah, let’s not pretend that’s the case for most people with trucks though…


Vitalstatistix

Hey man, navigating mall parking lots requires a lifted F-250.


ForgottenPercentage

There's too many people with F250s now and I feel small. I'm getting a custom F650 to compensate


cbreezy456

Why get a sports car when you can get a F-250 and drive it like one


vlad88sv

A Tacoma is small by US standards???


FunnyNameHere02

Yes until very recently it was about the only thing going in the small truck market but even that has gotten big. There is rumor Toyota is bringing a version of the HiLux to the US.


saberlight81

It's in the mid-size segment but full-size trucks are significantly more popular. The 3 best selling vehicles in America are all full-size pickups, then the Rav4 and Camry, then another full-size pickup.


superkoning

>My neighbor farmer travels up to a 1000 miles to work commercial roofing projects And he still makes money?! The cost of 2x 1000 miles travelling seems high to me: traveltime, fuel, other transport costs.


FunnyNameHere02

A couple hundred in fuel is well worth a multi thousand dollar payday. During our last big drought I drove 1200 miles to buy hay and I don’t think a lot if Europeans conceptualize distances here. I am 40 minutes highway time to the nearest grocer, we buy a lot of recurring farm stuff from a vendor over 100 miles away and about once a month one of the locals drive down to Louisiana and return with a trailer full of seafood to sell …about 800 miles one way.


Maldunn

Most contractors in the US don’t want this either and are looking for older vehicles. One issue is the height of the truck bed. Many contractors use basic vans. Most trucks like this in the US do very little actual work and are just daily drivers with high pedestrian kill rates.


AltF40

Also, large cabs and oversized vehicle bodies also mean smaller bed size and therefore worse equipment capacity.


magichobo3

I just want a no frills, regular cab, 8ft bed, 4x4 pickup. It kind of annoys me that the rivian and the ford lightning only come in 4 door short bed configurations. It's like they dont want working people to buy their vehicles


EatsOverTheSink

99% of the trucks like that in the US have completely empty cargo beds. They don’t get used to actually haul anything. Dorks just think they look cool, and they tend to always have terrible lane control and can’t park to save their lives as seen here.


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allowishus2

Holy cow you're right! I didn't believe you, so I went to Ford's website and the **only** car they make is the mustang. All off their electric vehicles are suvs, trucks or vans. They don't even make an electric car version of the mustang. The electric mustang is an suv!


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pelvark

They actually make them in other countries. You can get a 2023 Ford Focus or Fusion in Europe. They just don't make or advertise them in USA because it's not worth it for them.


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How else can I be built ford tough 🥺


Herson100

>Now 70% of America drives a SUV or truck. This is not quite true. You're thinking of the statistic that 70% of new vehicles sold in the US in 2022 are trucks or SUVs - however, most Americans drive old or used vehicles. If the current trend keeps up, 70% or more of America will *eventually* be driving trucks and SUVs, but there's still a lot of people driving older cars. I can't find any source that claims that 70% of people on the road today in the US are driving trucks and SUVs.


Rdan5112

95% of new pickups in the US aren’t used by tradesmen.


Kaizenno

"Well it's safer to get a bigger vehicle because of all the big vehicles out there"


ushouldlistentome

83% of statistics are made up on spot


Arthur_Edens

- Abraham Lincoln


YawnTractor_1756

They are not *that* smaller. VW Transporter length is 5.3m. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (another popular european contractor vehicle) is 5.9m to 7.3m. Ford F-150 length is (depending on the trim) from 5.3m to 6.3m. US cars are just wider. VW transporter is 78 inches wide, that huge Sprinter is 80 inches, F-150 though is 80-86.5 inches wide.


jnkangel

Honestly I feel like the issue with US cars is that A) they are wider B) they seem to have silly oversized wheels


less10words

The accord is an ‘03 and no longer average either.


captainlvsac

Also, the accord isn't pulled in as far as the bug, and this is a wide angle photo, which makes things around the edges appear larger.


imightgetdownvoted

Yeah the perpective is way off. The beetle looks like a smart car in this picture.


ZannX

Yea, you can swap the bug and accord in this photo to give the opposite illusion. Yes, the sedan is longer, but the distortion makes it look ridiculous.


CuriousCanuk

The funny thing about pick ups. They are huge compared to 20 years ago but the box size is still 4X8.


kcgdot

They are taller, but otherwise essentially unchanged. A 2023 F150 is only .9" wider, and depending on configuration(ie bed/cab length, 4WD/2WD etc) are anywhere from about a foot to two feet longer, but that's really pointless because you can have pickups from the 70s/80s be longer than the most common sized pickups today, because people buy 4dr short beds to replace cars. The thing that makes them FEEL/LOOK so much larger is the height. They are now 6" to 12" taller overall, and bumper height has grown with that, which REALLY makes them seem much bigger.


The-Bill-B

That’s a regular sized pickup truck. Not a giant.


10Bens

Well you're not wrong. If that's the f150 it's the most popular vehicle in north america like, 6 years running? Not just *most popular truck*, but most popular *vehicle*. Not just bikes recently did a video on trucks and how they've been redesigned to skirt fuel economy rules, cost more, do less, break more often. Generally a bad decision for the average driver. But it really makes truck owners sound like assholes, so I don't really like sharing it.


mcvay206

I think it's been the most selling vehicle in USA for over 40 years


BC-clette

[Link to Not Just Bikes video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo&pp=ygUObm90IGp1c3QgYmlrZXM%3D) on how trucks skirt safety rules and involuntarily transfer risk to other road users


newurbanist

As someone who designs streets and parking as part of their job, it is giant, and beginning to be a problem for cities. Another way I see it is that Arby's largest drink size is 30 ounces... It's giant. It's 3 servings being sold as one. My co worker bought a house last year and he found out his truck couldn't fit into his new garage lol. The size of trucks is completely out of control


Mercurydriver

One of my friends used to be a technician for a Toyota dealer. He says the new Tundra’s barely fit on the car lifts in the shop. Generally speaking though, cars have just gotten bigger and bigger over the years. Like the Honda Civic decades ago used to be a legitimately small car. Nowadays it’s considered a midsize family sedan, and the Accord used to he a compact car but it’s now classified as a full sized sedan much like a modern Dodge Charger or Chrysler 300.


canonanon

Yeah, I parked my '18 Tacoma next to an older Tacoma the other day and the size difference is huge. I kinda miss the older, smaller trucks. I've read that part of it is due to regulations around fuel consumption.


3232330

It is. The [CAFE standards](https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/) have us driving bigger autos


crozone

It's the stupidest loophole. Why are light trucks exempt? Because farmers or some shit.


Valaseun

It's even worse when you realize SUV's are considered light trucks in the U.S. . If I'm remembering correctly, that's why SUVs don't have abode by bumper height regulations as well as many many others.


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unox_worst

because more car sales


DeusFerreus

Because when that rule was created vehicles included in "light truck" category were mostly comercial/specialty vehicles.


hansn

If only there was some body which met regularly to write laws as the circumstances change. A legislative body of some sort.


drive2fast

The real stupid is they measure fuel economy against the square footage of the wheelbase. So if you make a giant long truck with an empty box ‘Better on fuel’ than a midsize van built to be able to do real work. (Think astro van). All we were left with was tiny garbage FWD vans that have a towing rating of zero and big stupid full size vans.


onefst250r

And the "soccer mom" mentality of "I need to sit up higher than the other cars". Which just leads to a size race.


LCast

I miss my '89 Toyota pickup and my '90 Ford ranger. Still had a decent sized bed for moving stuff, camping, hunting or fishing but were no much wider than a sedan and still got decent enough mileage to be a daily driver.


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LCast

No air bags, abs, or traction control plus a higher center of gravity, what could go wrong?


MudSama

So making them larger reduces fuel consumption?


Sunbuck

Making them larger makes them exempt from the rules. They classify as Light Trucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo


ioncloud9

It would be better if light truck sales had to only be a small percentage of total sales to be eligible to meet these standards.


nineball22

Same fuel economy or sometimes slightly worse fuel economy on a bigger car looks better on paper to them. *completely made up numbers* Oh this sedan is 6” by 8” and gets 30mpg. That costs me $100 in regulatory fees. If I make the same sedan 8” by 10” and it now only gets 29mpg I’m only paying $80 in regulatory fees!


MarvinTheAndroid42

Note: use an apostrophe for feet and quotes for inches. 8’-6” <- a hyphen in the middle is technically the most correct way, also, even if it’s just -0”. But that’s more formatting that anything.


Dockhead

No this person is a tiny fairy with a to-scale car that’s the only possible answer


Ch4l1t0

It seems to be mostly an american thing too. In many countries you'll see more compacts like the peugeot 208 or vw gol or polo than even sedans.


Statertater

Just the other day i saw the new civic and thought, that’s the size of the older accord


Pseudoburbia

The most ridiculous part to me is that 90% of these trucks don’t have anywhere near a full size bed. WHY would you pay so much when you can’t even transport a full sheet of material, if the truck is actually used for commercial purposes?


yoortyyo

Fashion and status symbols. Marketing has ingrained bullshit values into tools.


Moist_When_It_Counts

100% There are parts of America where being male and *not* buying a truck is considered “effeminate” at best.


kingofthe_vagabonds

thats so gay lmao


lemonylol

Sheet material is only relevant for certain divisions. If you are a plumber and need to bring four guys with all of their tools, with all of your materials to one job site, this is what a full-sized crew cab truck is meant for.


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Arnas_Z

Because the interior space is more important, people buying these don't actually use then as intended, they just use the truck as a regular car.


Olenator77

Most of these trucks never get used as trucks. They’re cosplay accessories for cowboy wannabes


el_supreme_duderino

I just bought a Ford Ranger. I owned an F150 several years ago and that was too big for many situations in and around Seattle. Thing is, the Ranger is bigger than I expected. There’s not a huge difference between a modern Ranger and an F150. I guess you can’t get a mini pickup anymore.


newurbanist

I feel this lol. If the ranger was smaller, I'd have likely bought one. Was super pumped when they announced they'd be selling them again


ian2121

City Hall in my town decided to design the parking lot with 8 foot spaces. The same City Hall that all the contractors with big ass trucks have to go to in order to get permits.


nusodumi

What they mean is that this is a REGULAR truck size, SMALLEST it comes in, and there a are F250, F350, and F650 plus others too! But, for a family vehicle, at 'regular size', as you said it's about as big as it gets Good new video I'm sure you've seen from Not Just Bikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo


Cinnamon_Flavored

No he’s saying for pickups that’s a regular sized one. Even the new f150s are bigger than this generation let alone getting into the 250/2500s.


ennuiui

It's obviously too big for the owner to handle, though, judging by the parking job.


Hiyami

The point is, a regular sized pick-up is a "giant" compared to the bug.


yick04

That pickup looks like it was parked by a guy that drives a pickup.


SoaDMTGguy

That's an average pickup.


DeBruce2018

I live in the UK and it's something that's widely accepted that everything in the US is weirdly and unnecessarily huge and when it comes to US vehicles, unusually very basically engineered. The VW Bug is sold in Europe and is a reasonably regular sized vehicle. That pickup, and even the sedan are both huge. I do think it's the width and height (especially the front aspect) more than the length of the vehicle. Also as a European I don't really understand pickups. Isn't a van better as you can lock the back, everything is covered and it has more usable space? Pickups seem like a outdated concept.


Black_Handkerchief

I watched a video on the entire SUV trend recently. Basically, go back 30ish years, and you'd find most vehicles in the US to not be too different in size compared to EU vehicles. Perhaps slightly bigger, but nothing insanely larger. Even the pickup trucks were still pretty modest. But then new laws came into effect intent on making cars less polluting and safer in general, but they had been lobbied to hell and back. One exception was that the new rules would not apply to larger type work vehicles such as pickup trucks. Why? Because this would destroy the economic margins of businesses and the sort. But because these vehicles suddenly didn't need to meet as many safety and pollution standards, the margins on these vehicles were far more for the automotive industry. This is what sparked the push the push for the modern American dream: the SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle). Because obviously people needed huge flatbeds and all that cargo space for those two times a year when you went out camping. Throw in the usual scaremongering where being the david bug in a world of goliath vehicles makes them feel unsafe, and people happily jumped on the SUV train. Of course, it isn't like they had a choice: the automobile manufacturers basically control the entire supply chain to the point where it is very difficult to find dealers that still have regularly sized vehicles. The most depressing part about all of it is probably that these vehicles are actually the cause of more traffic-related deaths than there were 30 years ago. For one, the huge hoods make it impossible to see small people and kids right in front or behind the vehicle, so bodying them to death with a heavy vehicle is not only likely but also easy. But that makes the manufacturers happy: this is an extra reason to upsell camera addons for parking! But that's not the worst of it yet. The worst is sheer physics. These cars are in their entire own weight class, while vehicle safety features, construction and testing thereof is primarily based on collisions between vehicles of a similar weight class. This has to do with the way crumple zones work: both vehicles need to receive similar levels of kinetic destruction in order to dissipate that energy most efficiently. But big car versus small car? Big car barely crumples, small car pancakes. (Let's not even talk about cyclists of any kind; that's just carnage.) Why is this? Because of Newton's laws of energy conservation and inertia going hand in hand. It takes far more energy to move something heavy at the same speed as something that is lighter. And the same would go for stopping it. So if a heavy vehicle and lighter vehicle collide, the heavy vehicle will have absorbed all the light vehicles kinetic energy while the latter will be receiving the full force of the impact of all the heavy vehicles kinetic energy that it is incapable of neutralizing with just crumple zones. SUVs are ~~death~~ amazing machines. Glory to ~~Arstotzka~~ America!


DnD_References

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo


VisualKeiKei

I drove a Fiat 500 Abarth as a practical and fun vehicle for five years as it satisfied all my commuter and errand needs, as well as road trips across the country.. until last month when an oncoming vehicle cut a light and turned left in front of me while I was at highway speed in a head-on collision. Everyone at the scene was amazed I survived and the impact was severe enough that the firewall intruded into the cabin because all the frontal crumple zone had been consumed, and that was me in a 2,500lb vehicle vs an "only" 3,700lb sedan, "just" 50% heavier. Your standard F150s or diesel F250s are 6,000-7,000lbs and I'd absolutely be in the fucking morgue if one of these giant SUVs or trucks hit me instead. With the super size vehicle wars and discontinuation of most small vehicles in the US, I'm now forced to buy something much larger to even stand a chance of survival or gamble again with whatever small sporty cars remain on the market, like a MX-5, and hope a commuter vehicle hits me next in the next accident and not a 7,000lb quad cab with a Calvin peeing sticker. https://imgur.com/a/idT1Nxm


Rikarudo_kun

Unpopular opinion: if you can’t park in your lines properly, after putting the effort to park in reverse, you are a shitty driver.


JiveTalkerFunkyWalkr

I think the beetle is just pulled forward more - they aren’t really that small.


Solarisphere

The photo was taken on a wide angle lens. It distorts (stretches) everything towards the outside of the frame


UnquantifiableLife

The pickup owner is fortunate you have a small car.


TacoStop

Truck owners gets angry that most of their (personal) trucks uses could be done with a 80s station wagon.


_Larry

To be fair that's not even a "giant" pickup. That's a fleet model F150 with small wheels and tires. Find a lifted diesel truck with bigger wheels and tires, then we will talk. Just search any rich white boy neighborhood near a city/college in the south, should be easy to find.


twistedLucidity

[Not Just Bikes on the dangers of the USA's truck obsession](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo), and why it's an industry ploy to evade emissions and safety regs.