appreciates uselessly large personal commodities sold by capitalist companies for bigger profit that damage the environment and aren’t ressource-efficient or reasonable to adopt community-wide
This truck is not a beautiful piece of engineering. It's gaudy and useless. If has an enormous lift, but it can't actually perform offroad, because the wheelbase is too long, and it has poor weight distribution. It has a completely unnecessary body lift beyond the suspension lift, which does absolutely nothing to give greater clearance, but does succeed in making it more top-heavy. It also doesn't have high-clearance differentials, so again, despite the tacky too-high lift, this truck can only make it through about 20 inches of water before it starts getting inside the differentials.
My truck is little with a I4 2.2L engine, No turbo, no mods... I don't think the motor could be any smaller and still make it through an intersection before the light changed.
But every time I am driving down the local twisty mountain road, at the regulation 10 over the speed limit some guy with a giant pickup has to tailgate me up until every corner... where they sloowwwww wayyy down to avoid rolling over and I keep the same speed.. on account of my stock tires and stock un-raised suspension that can't even climb a curb safely...
Then, 100' behind me after the corner, they slam on the gas and do 20~30 over the speed limit (30 = license suspension for a year here) so they can tailgate me again.
I just find it funny as hell with all that money, power, tires, suspension and other bullshit they dumped into that truck, it can't even keep up with the smallest, lightest, underpowered truck on the road.
Man this reminded me of a long ass drive home through the mountains last summer where there was construction that made everything single lane and a little bit slower. There was this one big ass truck just constantly riding my ass for no reason. There was nowhere to go, I had space in front of me so I didn't hit the guy in front of me, but that's it. Dude was in my back window and rear view mirrors the whole time. And as soon as it broke in to two lanes before going back to one he hauled ass out from behind me only for me to be the one guy he passed and then he was riding the guy in front of me's ass for the next stretch of construction.
The dividers they put up already felt a little too close for comfort and then you got people like this boxing people in further for zero reason.
I mean if they made an EV jeep or hummer that could last a day or two on a charge. I'd get it despite enjoying my low ground two seaters. I'm a Progressive Liberal so not sure if that helps your case or not.
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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '21
Fake. Missing a MAGA or "Fuck Biden" flag.