I.......I'm not sure this is unpopular, so much as it is nit-picky. It would be like saying your favorite nut can't be honey roasted peanuts simply because the peanut isn't a nut at all. It's a legume. Doesn't mean you wouldn't be arrested for attempted murder if you force fed someone peanuts who had a known nut allergy.
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I don't think this is all that unpopular of an opinion. It was one of the biggest complaints I saw when the design was first shown. There's actually a number of trucks I've seen out there that aren't trucks in my opinion, as they can't just backup and get loaded with whatever to haul off. I use my SUV more as a truck by just dropping the seats than some of these designer minibed raised chassis monstrosities could.
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Cybertruck not actually a truck. Musk directs Tesla to rename flagship vehicle "Cyber-not-a-truck." News at 9:00.
Tesla Cyber-el-camino
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In fact, it can't even tow, because the hitch can just rip off. It's a useless pile of scrap metal.
Yeah that’s unpopular - I shared that view in the early days of unibody construction but manufacturers can do a lot more with that now. Why not judge whether it’s a truck by whether it can do truck things?
We’re way past the point where trucks are used for stereotypical truck things and they’re used for a much wider range of uses. Most don’t need to be so heavy duty to fulfill their use case.
Unless you’re also going to claim we don’t need 80% of the trucks we have, you’re just being pretentious about the need for heavy duty vehicles and what manufacturers are able to design
Unless you’re also going to claim we don’t need 80% of the trucks we have
I would never presume to claim any such thing. I drive a 2021 Canyon quarter-tonne precisely because I think there is a use case for lighter duty trucks for people like me who aren't doing much more than hauling home-reno trash to the dump and moving some furniture for friends.
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Just to add.... if the Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are trucks, then so is the El Camino...technically. And that is certainly not true.
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Not to mention it’s an entirely aluminum frame that has been shown to shatter instead of bend when overstressed, which is the opposite of what you want when you’re towing a trailer down the road at 65mph
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