It's maddening the percentage of my taxes that go towards the gas prices that makes this dick compensator feasible to own.

i feel like people would insist on this shit regardless, even in the rest of the world people seem to not even consider the concept of forgoing a car for economic reasons, same with owning a house.

they'd rather eat less and stop heating their house than rent an apartment and stop driving everywhere.

We more than make up the discount with federal taxes that fund our military-industrial complex which then commits violence all over the world in our name to make that oil cheap at the pump :(

In comparison to other countries? Yeah.

Shame that every country that's balls enough to raise gasoline prices gets Iraq War'd.

I work in construction and pickup trucks definitely have their place. This however is not a usable truck . It's a medical treatment for small dick syndrome.

Very tl;dr: In the 70s, the was a gas shortage, so Congress passed minimum mpg laws, but exempted trucks, to not kill small business. Manufacturers lobbied Congress to expand the definition of "trucks," and now you see these giant troop carriers everywhere.

This lets people know you have a penis and that’s very very important.

Anyone with a raptor in this country is a bellend.

The Hilux was only ever a boss mans car, the sites were littered with focuses and octavias for the longest time. There is a plant hire lad near me that uses an 07 Mondeo to put the trailer.

Pickups are tradie fashion statements.

It's huge tires and clearance are an advantage in a country with crumbling infrastructure.

We need a height limit. I have a 2010 1500. Even stock height on that was unnecessarily high. I lowered with a 2/4 kit. Perfect height and I can still do all the truck stuff, legit truck stuff, that I want. No issues in snow either.

The 1500 line has only gotten taller since. Again, completely unnecessary. There are tons of douche mobiles like the OP pic around here. Tons of idiots with those 2500s, or equivalent, around here. Those are usually because "muh diesel!"

Even businesses though. Why? The AF buys 1500s. Those haul auxilary power carts that weight the same as a VW bug. It takes 2 or 3 of us to push them.

Also, why would I buy a raised on as a business. I've just made it very difficult to get shit out of the bed for my employees now. I've just raised the chances that my employee is going to cause an accident because they can't see shit around them.

"but I wanna off road!" I've done it in an 05 Colorado, stock height, at a local ORV park. That includes those ruts, driving up difficult inclines and even through a puddle almost up to the windows. If I can do that in one of those, you don't need to raise your doucheness above for the world to see.

But they need the 2500 HD Super Duty Ultra Platinum Tungsten edition with 4 inch lift to tow their lawnmower. Or maybe a pressure washer.

Honest question is what businesses would ever buy a jacked up and off dude bro truck for anything other then to make an executive feel like they have a bigger pp?

These things are not even good at being a truck, short bed that is too high to load/unload and a fuel economy of if you have to ask you can't afford it does not make a good fleet truck.

I find that a lot of Europeans entertain the delusion that they arrived at safe, livable transit and streets by calling the cops a lot. I guess that's an easy misconception to pick up if you grew up with those safe streets, where all that was left to maintain them was to pay taxes and occasionally call the cops, and when there's a decent chance that those cops aren't murderous racist fascists who don't respond to the call.

But Europe, western and northern in particular, got their infrastructure by pitching a long and eventually successful political fight against automotive culture as a whole throughout the 60s - 80s. They redesigned their cities to accommodate walking and cycling, they staged mass protests, they passed automotive regulations to mostly ban the sorts of personal vehicles that are fundamentally incompatible with that sort of city. They didn't oust motor culture from their city centers by calling the cops a lot. No, that's just maintenance upkeep long after the win. The boomer-aged Europeans of today had to take up a long hard fight in an organized fashion to create that world for themselves and their kids.

They can't park at the local Walmart in the burbs nor go through the dunkin drive through rurally either. It's a bloated piece of shit for bloated pieces of .. people.

These trucks literally dont fit in society and should stay on these folks farms, which they say they all have and is why they need these trucks.

Can't fit a couch in that bed it's all vanity

Bro the biggest asshole in my neighborhood was a sheriff. Parking in the lawn, playing loud music, having a shooting range in their back yard.

Was very "Thanks for the concern." And did nothing all the time.

I'm glad we don't have horse crap everywhere. Thats disgusting and a health risk.