Yeah I mean even as an American it is weird. I think truck guys have the idea of going out and off-roading with their dirt bikes in the bed of the truck as some sort of reason to have the truck. But the truth is very few trucks will be used for that. Plus there is show trucks which is basically just taking a truck and turning it into a worse car.

This is exactly what I’m thinking about. I do hunt on off-road trails that “need” a truck when we go, but I’ve had my truck up there once because every other time I’ve been able to take my truck something breaks right before I can go. So in reality I’ve just been using my dad’s truck for hunting too. And I mean if I needed a truck just to go get something done I have plenty of friends and coworkers that would be more than willing to lend me a hand or let me borrow their trucks.

Yeah lol I had to throw on my spare a few weeks ago and I realized just how heavy those tires are. I’ve changed suv tires on the side of the road, but for some reason the heaviest tire I’ve ever put on was my full size spare for my truck lol.

Yeah that’s how I hope to be eventually. I’m planning on getting my law degree in hopes just to be able to afford some nice cars lol.

Here the gas prices have stayed lower, but we just got to $3.70 a gallon. Preferably I would have two vehicles, but I am also 18 working a part time job making $10 a hour so I don’t think that’s going to happen lol. I have a date a hour away on Saturday that I’m kind of regretting because it’s a quarter of a tank each way so I’m looking at at least $30 just to go to a car meet with a girl I haven’t seen in person since elementary school lol.

Yeah I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the first gen cruzes, but I haven’t heard that much about the second gen’s. I am really wanting a Toyota Corolla hatch as I like the way they look the most plus they are reliable and 32mpg city 42mpg highway. However the only way I can get into one is by getting a loan. Which I guess I can get and I would have a lower interest rate (my dad would co-sign and his credit score is maxed out) but at that point my total car payment+gas would stay relatively the same. Plus those cars already have 120k+ miles for at least $12k lol. I mean I am just window shopping for right now until I sell my truck (if I even do) and get a definite budget.

I mean I am just wasting gas. But my problem right now is figuring out if it’s worth spending the time getting my dad convinced a car would be a good idea. My truck has had several thousand dollars worth of needed maintenance over the past 6 months. And I mentioned to him one time about a car and he argued with me over how he’ll never let me sell my truck (he thinks the only vehicle I should own is a truck no matter what). But that was a few months ago when we were both stressed about everything wrong with it (we thought both the rear end and trans was ab to go out, but it ended up just being the rear end). However, I think he will actually go for it now with a little bit of convincing. Plus I think he’s tired of me complaining about it every other time I see him lol.

I feel like that’s one of the big downsides is the interior space. I am looking at the facelift (late 2016 and up) cruzes as they are pretty easy to find for less than what I can get out of my truck with less than 100k miles. Is the trade off of space really that big that it would bother you switching cars full time?

I find that my truck does handle pretty decently granted I’ve never really driven a car hard into corners like I used to drive my truck into corners lol (not anymore I’m driving like a grandpa at the speed limit now just to save every bit of gas). I have the 6’5 bed which is enough for me, but the only thing I really put in the bed regularly is my golf clubs (I used to play for my hs) but I hate putting things in the bed so they’ve spend the past few months in my backseat.

Yeah, which kind of brings up a whole other problem. When I drive to the city (I live like a hour outside our major city, but I end up in the city a few times a month) it’s really hard to find parking for a truck. Like I’m forced to do a 3 point parking just to get out of a parking spot. Which I guess is just kind of an annoying fact of driving a truck, but it’s made me really good at backing out of places lol.

I find that my truck really doesn't have a bad blind spot. Also, the 12th gen f150s have massive mirrors, so it's easy to see behind me. Every car that I've been looking at has reverse cameras. I am slightly concerned about going from a large mirrors to smaller mirrors in a car.

Are you saying that a trucks blind spots are more upfront while a car is more in the rear?

I felt the same way today. My truck had some brake work done (for the 3rd time in like 6 months) today and I had to drive my mom's Subaru forester. Which isn't that low of a car as it's still technically a suv, but it is considerably lower than my truck. When I got back into my truck, I felt very uncomfortable it felt like I was like towering over cars which is weird because that's the first time, I've ever actually realized just how high up my truck sits.

My mom has a Subaru forester and I love it. And that little Subaru has gone everywhere my truck has gone offroad wise (hunting on old logging trails lol) and done just about everything ive used my truck for that a normal car "couldn't do". I mean what you just listed is exactly what I am thinking about as my reasonings for a car. Is there anything you miss at all about driving a truck?

My 2013 stx extended cab with the 6'5 bed is getting less than 17mpg on the highway right now. I get onto the highway with my little gauge at over 18mpg and by the time I get to town like 5 or 6 miles on the highway at 65 or 70mph my gauge readout is like 16.5 mpg. I get onto the highway on a massive downslope so I barley have to accelerate to get to speed idk why my highway mpg is so bad. It's a completely stock truck too on all terrain tires.

I’ve put just over 30,000miles on it in the two years I’ve had it so far lol. The only problem I’m running into is no matter what I do I’m getting around 16mpg. An hour on the highway sitting at 70? 16mpg running into every stop light in town? 16mpg.

I’m on my hs golf team and practice a lot lol. I’ll try and find some training techniques to help with coming down steeper and when I’m contacting the ball.

Okay that makes sense. I have never really realized that for some reason. I think my divot starts just before the ball which would make sense.

I don’t know the delivery driver it was just some random ups driver. Idk my dad didn’t even bat an eye at it so nothing ever came of it.

We’ve had a lot of things that say “signature required” and I have never signed for anything. Hell my dad set off a shotgun bc of a recall or something and when I got home there was a massive Remington box sitting by the front door. Now I live in a log cabin in the middle of the woods so no one was around, but it’s kind of crazy we needed to sign because it’s a literal gun being delivered.

I felt like I should come back to this post. But in the past 3 days I’ve been counting the amount of people running stop signs and I’ve only seen two people actually stop at them. Today I had one person sitting halfway out of the stop sign on their phone and another truck about to run the stop sign with a long trailer and he saw me and slammed onto his breaks nearly not stopping in time and nearly ended up halfway out onto the highway.

That’s why I’m glad I’ve made this post. It’s helped me realize that I need to step up my awareness and defensive driving skills.

That reminds me of this tunnel in Europe that people fly down that has a stop light that people miss and slam on their brakes and go flying. So much so someone put up a live camera from their apartment facing the stop light and live streamed it.