pavement princesses
Insult seems vaguely misogynistic.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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Met a guy a few days ago who had just purchased a new Chevy Silverado. The hood was at his shoulder. He installed a front camera because he can't see shit from the driver's seat. It's not even lifted.
When will the lawsuits for these fundamentally unsafe designs start?
We need Ralph Nader back
Ralph Nader was a bullshit pushing con artist. That said, I used to have to drive a 2015 ish Dodge 3500 diesel for work (construction, supply delivery) and that one was horribly bad. Not just from the hood height, that wasn't far out of line, but you sat so low down relative to the hood height, 5 foot tall bollards off the port bow would disappear from view 20 feet away. This is directly all due to crash regulations, vehicles you can see out of are riskier for passengers. mid teens camaros were the same way.
I just realized i was better off with my early 90s junk i can see out of.
My favorite vehicle I've ever owned was a 4 cylinder manual gen 1 Tacoma.
A 2010 Chrysler minivan is a superior work vehicle to modern pickup trucks in every meaningful way.
If you have a pickup with a 4 ft bed, you have an suv somebody took the back row of seats out-of, chopped the roof off of, and sold to somebody who was to insecure to drive a vehicle that didn't reassure them they're a big strong manly man.
America won't allow Japanese light duty pickup trucks to be imported because it would kill 3 separate inferior markets.
Fully agree. I think most modern trucks are a minivan but without an enclosed hatch. They're just incompatible. If you want a truck you want bedspace for hauling, it's not supposed to be a driving the family around vehicle. That's a van, or in the 70s terms that's a stationwagon. They're two completely separate vehicles.
Instead people are paying over 70k for a vehicle that does both of those things poorly.
I miss 8ft beds on small pickups
Wtf is a pavement princess
Apparently someone who drives an off-road-capable vehicle exclusively on-road.
It's not just driving a off road capable vehicle exclusively on road but mainly installing modifications that look like it would increase the vehicles off roading capabilities but in reality hinder it. Take the lift on the truck i posted above, it has a long travel suspension which when installed correctly would vastly improve the trucks ability to handle trails at high speeds however because they chose height over suspension travel they've created a truck with none of the benefits of a long travel suspension with a vastly increased risk of rolling over. They are trying to cosplay as a monster truck without understanding that a monster truck has tires that are almost as wide as they are tall for stability which you physically cannot do on a road legal truck without it being two or three lanes wide.
See also "Triggered by literally anything they don't understand"
A truck/ off road vehicle owned by someone that never uses it for it's intended purpose.
There's a scene at the end of the first Cars movie with the military jeep yelling at a group of them that mud won't hurt them
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