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You don't fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.
Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/
It’s an Emotional Support Truck, which is hilarious based on how opposed they are to gender affirming care.
Well that truck IS their gender affirming care 😂😭
And yet they cling to it while disavowing the concept.
Unfortunately you cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into!
Who needs reason when you get to take up half of the next guys parking space! No need for thinkin’ when you look down on commercial vehicles.
I recall at previous job I worked, an old guy bought a giant truck, I think it was a GMC 6500. I'm between 6'1" to 6'3", depending on which gas station I'm leaving. I could easily walk under the side mirrors.
He worked second shift. I'd see it in the lot when i was leaving and it'd be gone when I arrived in the morning. I noticed in the morning, the truck was sitting in 1 spot for about 2 weeks before I asked around.Apparently the hurt himself while leaving one late night. He was climbing in and fell out backwards. I think it sat in one spot for another 6 weeks before someone finally came and got. It was an obnoxiously large truck
Fuck these big ass trucks, should be illegal!
It really is interesting how we have such large trucks and very few parking spots outside of the back nine of Wal-marts parking lot even close to big enough for them.
I think people who drive somethimg like that really do not care at all. They juat use three spots ot the disabled spot.
You could argue that those kind of people are at least mentally challenged.
It's another symptom of the infinite growth mindset that is not only plaguing boardrooms but average citizens.
What is even the point of these, from what i seen the truck bed does not seem that much bigger if at all then a normal pickup truck?
Cosplaying as a "real worker".
What's worse is that lack of visibility kills and the engine bay is mostly empty space (see the outro in the video).
I blame the truck manufacturers more than the poor, deluded shlubs who buy them. There used to be standards in the industry but "big" costs more so they make more money (initially...while pricing a whole class of citizens out of the market).
The manufacturers definitely have a large share of the blame, but people still have the agency to make better choices.
I blame lack of regulation.
Regulation (in a way) is exactly how we got into this situation. CAFE was meant to enforce emissions standards, but the way it was written meant that making a bigger vehicle resulted in a lower fuel economy requirement. The Chicken Tax essentially stopped foreign trucks from being able to compete in the US market, which meant that Ford/GM/Dodge got to create an oligopoly.
regulation only works if the laws are not written by the companies that are being regulated
They fought it. I'm sure they'd prefer if there were no environmental or gas efficiency regulations at all. And when the laws passed anyway they found loopholes. The laws were written by well meaning but naive politicians, none of whom really understood the problems they were trying to address.
A truck is only slightly more expensive to produce than a sedan when all costs are taken into account, but can be sold at a higher price.
The main difference between a truck and a sedan is a few hundred pounds of metal. Both have the same cost in labour to manufacture, as well as equivalent R&D cost. In some cases, trucks have lower R&D because they aren't expected to change as much from year to year, so the engineering cost of re-designing parts/panels/etc. just isn't there.
I am right there with you. I’m not super big on blaming individuals for stuff like this. I saw an old Tacoma parked next to one of these monsters the other day and I was like, holy smokes, the size is just out of control.
They would stop making it if people didn't buy it.
Every single person that has one of these should be shamed to hell and back for it.
I don't know of a single justification, either. At all.
Forget cat narc, we need truck narc who just chips the fronts of all these monsters off.
In 2012 the federal fuel economy standards were changed to no longer consider the classification of vehicle, but just its footprint. So suddenly a Corolla had less-strict fuel economy requirements than a small truck.
So the Ranger, Dakota, S-10, etc were all discontinued, and manufacturers learned that the easiest way to meet fuel economy standards was to make the vehicles bigger every time the requirements increase.
It's also why around 2022, every small cargo van (NV200, Transit Express, ProMaster City) stopped being produced. It's also why the Maverick has the "standard" model as the hybrid while the one you can actually find at the dealers is the "upgrade" traditional engine.
I blame both considering how often I see people brag about how big their trucks are. Motherfucker you've got a short bed and extended cabin, and you're out here talking about an engine like you need to be able to go 90 while hauling an oversized trailer.
Sure you can't buy a small truck anymore, and it's getting harder to buy compact cars, subcompacts, and even full sized sedans, but it's not like all trucks sold today are that big.
Seen one recently. Don't know how it is in Americas, but for the rest of the world this is unnecessarily, stupidly, obscenely big. It doesn't fit anywhere, it consumes fuel in barrels, visibility is near zero, the pickup format is extremely impractical for everyday use. This is a climate-churning, people-pressing machine that makes 0 sense.
It's wild to remember this joke was from 1998, yet I can swear trucks have gotten even bigger since then. I remember most pickup trucks having a compromise between cab space and bed space. My brother's first truck had two seats in the front and two side seats squished behind it - that is, it was such a small space that the seats faced inwards from the wall and we had to fold our legs so our knees went up. It was actually pretty fun to sit back there, I had a friend who'd ask him specifically to drive us places because she loved that feature.
But nowadays it seems most pickup trucks (that I see, in the US) gave up on making that compromise, like the truck in the post image. Full cab in front like it's trying to be a family sedan, then a long-ass bed that makes the thing stick out pretty much anywhere it parks.
I'd say "pick a lane," but with the size of these things, I don't have high hopes.
I had a Chevy s-10 back from those days that could pull those large trucks out the mud. It also had a single “bitch seat” in the back (not a comment on women at all. Just If you’re in that seat.. you’re the little bitch of the group)
I don’t hate people who have trucks. You need it for work… and even large trucks maybe you need it out on the farm and it’s not your fault they keep getting bigger. You still need a truck for work and that’s just the way they come now.
If I see a CLEAN truck that large I’m pissed. That’s a vanity truck. A vanity truck that’s fucking with my sidewalk room.
You could park a Smart Fortwo in front of that honda and it would still not protrude as far out as this truck is.
I've seen an increase in these dumb trucks in my small European city. Every single one in pristine condition, so you know the pricks don't use them for work. A few stood out with expectedly dumb details. One had a license plate a la "I love USA", and another had a sticker "0800-EAT-SHIT". I'm pissed EU doesn't have the balls to ban them altogether.
I really think driving these things around should only be legal for work purposes.
The loophole is many who own their own trades business still drive them for personal uses because they can't afford (don't want) another car.
If only the people who drove them for legitimate work purposes owned them, even as their only vehicle, it would be a huge number off the roads.
The cab alone is bigger than my first car...
My neighbour used to park his truck sticking way out like that, but it wasn't all the way back in the spot.
I left a note on it saying: "It's not as big as you think it is, you have to put it all the way in."
From then on it was parked properly.
When I lived in the northeast, pre-2002, I remember seeing a few Escalade SUVs.
When I moved to the PNW, I suddenly discovered that there is also such a thing as an Escalade PICKUP. Extended cab, natch.
That sir is a bus with no public access.
Clearly a Penis Compensation Device.
I think that it's going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:
"Speeding. No one thinks big of you."
It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.
In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps "The bigger the trick, the smaller the ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.
Edit: Removed stray period.
Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.
Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.
A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer...