Australia

Oh god the reddit f150 posts have made it to lemmy. Didn’t take long

They’re every inconvenience rolled in to one. A pain to get in. A pain to park. Use heaps of fuel. Don’t fit in garages, and to top it off are expensive AF. I’m confident in saying unless you tow like, horse floats on the regular, if you own one you’re a fucking idiot.

But now that Holden have stopped making Commodores, how else are you meant to show you’re a dickhead?

I've been seeing those yank tanks showing up at my child's school lately. They're legitimately frightening. The bonnet comes almost up to my shoulder.

For complete fairness to everyone we should tax every vehicle on road or path from scooters and bikes to b-doubles based on the 4th power of axle load to properly account for the impact on road maintenance costs. Then additional levies for disproportionate environmental costs and harm to vulnerable road users. Keep the overall tax amount the same but shift the burden so people with smaller vehicles pay substantially less than they do now. And then add strict liability for anything much larger than a kei car.

Why do people even like inefficient, huge cars if they're not going to use most of its features, not even in the foreseeable future? Such a bloated design for an everyday car, and even more potentially dangerous at that... those Japanese cars have a more elegant and sleek design, as well as efficient. Well, I would like good public transportation too.

Ah, I see you're getting our pedestrian bonker 9000 down under!

In America, I’m sick and tired of seeing them. They’re minivans for insecure dads. They’re props for office workers who want to LARP as construction workers

Every time I see them, all I can think is that they hate kids (huge blind spots) and love to complain about gas/petrol prices. They also don’t fit in our huge parking spaces. Sure, they have their uses, but I really doubt that the shiny, pristine truck is being used to haul/tow anything

The real construction workers/laborers are usually seen driving normal sedans/cars, minivans, or actual vans. Fuck pickup trucks, they’re awful

As I understand it is because of emission control laws.

It is hard for manufacturers to create cars which fallow regulations and those big trucks are exempt from regulations since they are "trucks" and not "cars".

I wonder how can those even be legal, I am seeing the lm more and more in Europe and it is so sad since they are bigger than most streets.

We should just forbid them.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

The F150 isn't even the worst offender, I'm sitting in my office looking out the window and there is a lifted wankerado in the carpark. it's hood is up to my shoulders and I'm 5'11. They're not a good off roader why lift them like that?

How the fuck is that even legal.

I used to drive an ND MX5, and when one of these cunt-mobiles was behind me I always tried to get off the line as fast as that little thing would let me because I was certain some the drivers had no idea I was there.

My dad recently bought an F-350. He works in an office and lives in the suburbs. Why he willing chose to get 14mpg with post COVID gas prices is beyond me...

It's just crazy that these things are allowed.

Ok, let people buy them if they really want, but they shouldn't be allowed to use them on the roads that other people have to share with them!

The bodies are all so tacky too. It reminds me of a super soaker or nerf gun.

They are killing us

Maybe it makes me a bad person but I'd love one, even just for a few years.

I ride 20km to uni each way, eat less than 1 meat meal a week on average and am highly interested in solar/renewable energies but fuck me I'd love a big truck... specifically one bigger than everyone elses.

Often fitted with all terrain tyres for no good reason. Just why?

But my masculinity

I agree. These are for large people with tiny pp. :)

I live in a state where everyone drives the Diesel version of these. Diesel engines are loud and smelly. I just want to yell at everyone of them.

"Thanks ED, for purchasing an Earth killing monstrosity. You're not even hauling anything with that over priced, micro-penis replacement. Maybe you should get a bigger one so you can put more gun racks in it ED!"

We aren't. The people buying these emotional support vehicles are too fragile to participate in an anonymous online forum.

I don't understand why they're suddenly getting traction here. These big utes have been around forever but it just feels like you see them all the time now.

Honestly. Starting to see these in the UK too, and all I can think is who the hell needs one of these things??

I can't imagine they're easy to drive around or park given their size, and they must guzzle through petrol. Even if you had a big family, surely you'd just get an SUV with not totally exposed to the elements boot space.

Can they be fined for not fitting inside the car park?

I've been referring to these as babykillers. Good luck seeing a kid crossing the road if you're in one of these.