StrikerFuck SUVs in particular.
DaveFuckinMorganI have no idea why F-150's keep getting bigger. Do people really like that shit? Old trucks are so much better, from design to MPG.
JarmerI think there’s a huge percentage of truck drivers who never use their truck for truck stuff. It’s simply a status symbol to them which is pathetic. And bigger equals better in their feeble minds.
I have a 13 yr old Tacoma and it’s tiny compared to even the modern “small” trucks. When this thing finally dies, I have no idea what I’ll get. I love the size of it though. Maybe a Ford Maverick, but those are on backorder for years I heard from several friends who tried to get one.
grueWhen this thing finally dies…
…you swap a replacement engine into it and keep going anyway.
I discovered this hack and I’m never buying a new vehicle ever again. I have a 25 yr old truck and a car nearly as old. On the car I’ve long since ditched the old head units to get bluetooth and Android Auto, cleaned up the minor surface rust on the frame and got a protective coating sprayed on, had the seats reupholstered, and upgraded brakes and suspension.
All that cost me less than a new car including the cost of the car and I didn’t have to either pay a massive lump sum all at once or go into debt to buy it.
I drive similarly old vehicles (my oldest is 33; my newest is 18). The other reasons for it are:
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I avoid the exploitative misfeatures of new cars, such as privacy-violating “telemetry” and property-rights-violating “subscription features”
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I get features that are hard or even impossible to find these days, such as manual transmissions even on my SUV and pickup truck.
(Incidentally, I’m in this community because I’m as much of an enthusiast for good urbanism as I am for driving. I’ve got five automobiles, but I have even more bikes and I use the latter more often. It’s absurd that the zoning code allows me to have enough space to keep all these things so close to downtown in a large city, but don’t hate the player, hate the game.)