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Nissan’s new scalable EV platform to support up to 5 models, including lifestyle pickup (www.autonews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lifestyle pickup 💀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Meaning functional as opposed to mall crawler

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

We call them utes

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Paywalled. Unblocked version here

https://archive.ph/YOwRm

EDIT not unpaywalled, subscription only

What the fuck is the point of posting a link to an article no one can read ?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

TF is a lifestyle pickup?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's a more concise way of saying "wankers who buy a massive pickup they never use the bed of for anything other than a grocery bag to compensate for their small penis and try and pretend they're hard men"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

It isn't for hauling or towing but as a prop for Instagram and TikTok influencers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It’s for swingers! The back of the truck has little bits to lie on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Small trucks are great, but "lifestyle pickups"? We have a word for that already, it's "ute".

Also I love how the default prop to put into a vehicle to show it's practical and cool is a surfboard. Surely there can't be that many surfers in the world.

Maybe these things are discussed in the article but it's paywalled so all I have to go off of is a title and thumbail.