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[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I know some people who actually use their pickup truck and wish they could get something smaller. It doesn't exist anymore in the US.

It's not even the often remarked "chicken tax". That only prevents small trucks from foreign factories being imported in without a big extra cost attached. Factories in Canada and Mexico, via NAFTA, have been long exempt. US automakers have been free to make whatever small truck they want.

I am eyeing the Telo. I hope that works out.

[–] dogma11@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Love my 03 Mazda B2300.🥰 Gotta say I'm definitely not a fan of the newer Ford Ranger chassis 🙁

As much as I don't like the overall size I'm hoping one day to be able to afford a Rivian R1T. Or do some full ev conversion on my Mazda lol

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 97 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And they you have the real "I'm here to work" truck. Either that or they have a van. Sometimes you see a pickup truck here, but they're always used by the bosses and inspection.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A real man drives a Suzuki Carry!

edit: image searched "small japanese pickup" on DDG initially... got a whole other set of results 🤣

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Naturally, I won't post the relevant screen as they are not blurred out, but you can possibly guess what came up for me...

I have no idea why I got such radically different results. I am in the UK if that changes anything.

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Maybe DDG knows i'm a car enthousiast and you're... uhhh

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

If I set my region to the UK (Verenigd Koninkrijk), I get the same results as you

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The first step in healing is accepting one's porn addiction, bro. I'm here for you, bro.

[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

is that safe search on or off? not sure what uit means.

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

aan = on, uit = off

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

uit means off

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

And as a bonus getting hit with one will send you to a fantasy world

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

We use pick-ups / utes in forestry work quite a bit. It’s the only vehicle that really meets our needs… surprisingly good stretcher carriers in an absolute emergency too.

Got a lot of love for our sprinter tipper, but it’s more for parkland and golf courses and some of the farms we work at.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

holy shit pls tell me you made that

[–] theLaLiLuLeLol@kbin.earth 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are real pickup trucks too, but I don't see any in this meme and I rarely see them in the street.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

australia has them far more commonly than american land yachts. we call them utes rather than pickups though (ute = utility) and mostly they’re driven by tradies (you can guess that one ;p)

[–] theLaLiLuLeLol@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

As long as it has a usable bed

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Does my 2001 Toyota Tacoma single cab count?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My dad drove an 86 Nissan 720 when I was a kid that looked exactly like the second small truck and I would kill for a modern version. I usually stick stuff in the back of my RAV4 and that mostly works, but there are times I need an open bed and have to rent a pickup. Give the people what they want! Baby trucks!

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[–] modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the “pushed in muzzle” is because of pedestrian safety requirements ironically

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the “hit em in the fuckin head so they don’t suffer” requirement?

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Can't report hitting a pedestrian if you never saw or felt the pedestrian you hit

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Really? Everything I've heard about pedestrian safety suggests that its better to go onto the hood rather than be pushed down and go under the wheels.

It seems like this design would do exactly that, in addition to creating a blind spot directly in front of the vehicle. Though I suppose these trucks are so tall you're likely to go under anyway.

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

I like you picking a Scania and a Peterbuilt to represent real trucks. A person of great taste for sure.

[–] tripform@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a second I thought this was a damn advertisement.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

The way I see it, if your personal vehicle that you own or rent is tall enough that you need some sort of step type thing just to be able to get in or need to lift your legs more than a couple feet in the air to get in, you are a small child masquerading as an adult. Same thing applies if a 5 year old can stand directly in front of your vehicle and you cannot see them.

Only exceptions are disabled people (you should probably get a lower to the ground vehicle if you're disabled in a way that makes it hard to climb into a vehicle), and people who are genuinely short (like dwarfism type stuff, in which I question why you have such a tall vehicle in the first place).

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If someone doesn't agree, then I propose we also call these trucks

[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never seen anyone own a van just to own a van though. Either a camper and not the daily driver, for work, 6+ kids, or converted for wheelchairs.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 9 points 1 day ago

Never seen anyone own a van just to own a van

Exactly

[–] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Dickgirl with a CDL here: I love pickup trucks, at least anything bigger than a half-ton. You can get a lot of work done, pull a lot of shit and other things with a properly outfitted truck. I'm tired of people pretending like Japanese light trucks have any sort of similar capabilities, capacities, or safeties that half-tons have.

First of all, bed space doesn't mean jack if you don't have the suspension to hold it or the brakes to stop it in motion. Then, the engine: half-tons can have 6.7L Diesel engines while Japanese light trucks only have 0.66L engines by Japanese law. Good luck pulling anything with that.

Next, people LOVE to pretend like there aren't any uses for half-tons meanwhile I used them every day in my road maintenance job. Sometimes medium-duty trucks are just too fucking big for what you want to use them for. Supply runs and picking up trash is easy in a pickup, but annoying as fuck in a dump truck.

If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit, then sure. But I love me some half-tons and I'm tired of people shitting on them

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would say that less than half the pickup trucks in the US have ever towed a single trailer, maybe one in four have towed a uhaul to help a buddy move once. Even guys working construction barely do anything that actually requires a pick-up. The boss's truck will move all the heavy expensive stuff, but a van works even better since you can lock everything up and not have to worry about someone stealing your tools while you are out to lunch.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 day ago

...less than one in ten...

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit,

As a son of a man who bought a brand new truck every other year and never used them to transport anything ever, I'm laughing exclusively at this group, yes.

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

People shit on them because while there are people that actually use them for real work daily that's like maybe if I'm being super generous 5% of the market of trucks. Even out in rural areas like I am where it's over two and a half hours to the nearest grouping of buildings large enough to even pretend to be called the city the majority of the people out here with their big ass lifted trucks never take them off the pavement and never do any real work with them.

They are just driven around as status symbols and I'm tired of seeing them, the best part being that my little smart fortwo can literally off road better than most of these four wheel trucks out here thanks to it's short wheelbase, and I have a variable suspension so I don't even have to be permanently dumb lifted to do it

I think the number of people they kill and the fact that 99.99% of them are used as gender affirming vehicles for cis men or fear totems for suburban white women means we should not have them.

yes, there is a narrow use case. sure. but a sufficiently souped up small truck designed to modern spec without the limits of japanese law would probably do most of that fine, and the ability to do any, or even all of that, is not worth the cost in human lives and greenhouse gasses that these cause.

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[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

hey, i saw an ESV actually full of stuff in its back part yesterday

it only took 17 years to see one!

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't give people any ideas, I'm sure some would commute in a semi if they thought it made them more manly.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

REAL men drive a bus

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