This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn’t fit in many places around here it’s owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.
Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn’t help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn’t ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn’t matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.
Trucks should NOT be this tall, if you get into an accident with this asshole he’s gonna walk away and you’re going to the morgue.
Should’ve bought a bigger truck
You get the sense that petrol is too cheap in the US
It’s maddening the percentage of my taxes that go towards the gas prices that makes this dick compensator feasible to own.
i feel like people would insist on this shit regardless, even in the rest of the world people seem to not even consider the concept of forgoing a car for economic reasons, same with owning a house.
they’d rather eat less and stop heating their house than rent an apartment and stop driving everywhere.
We more than make up the discount with federal taxes that fund our military-industrial complex which then commits violence all over the world in our name to make that oil cheap at the pump :(
In comparison to other countries? Yeah.
Shame that every country that’s balls enough to raise gasoline prices gets Iraq War’d.
I work on a building sites here in Ireland,can someone tell me why use this? It’s like a van but less good in every way
I work in construction and pickup trucks definitely have their place. This however is not a usable truck . It’s a medical treatment for small dick syndrome.
Aye see working, and you’ve to load 5 tonnes of stones,a 4 foot clearance is not your friend
Very tl;dr: In the 70s, the was a gas shortage, so Congress passed minimum mpg laws, but exempted trucks, to not kill small business. Manufacturers lobbied Congress to expand the definition of “trucks,” and now you see these giant troop carriers everywhere.
I’ve heard that insurance on a truck used to be 1/2 the price of that for a car too… cannot verify the validity surrounding that though.
You are correct. Times have changed unfortunately.
The 70s? You guys know it’s been 50 years since carter right
This lets people know you have a penis and that’s very very important.
*small penis
Unless it has that idiotic hers not his sticker on it and a pink yeti sticker.
I guess then it let’s them know you have a critical case of Freudian penis envy and that’s very, very important?
You should see some of the vans we have
Anyone with a raptor in this country is a bellend.
The Hilux was only ever a boss mans car, the sites were littered with focuses and octavias for the longest time. There is a plant hire lad near me that uses an 07 Mondeo to put the trailer.
Pickups are tradie fashion statements.
Pick ups are for trades who don’t work. Ice seem many old school hilux because they don’t brake,but even then,they’re not the everyday. Hilux is for crossing fields. Vans are for working.
Yea like most of workers I know drive hatchback,nippy wee fuckers for getting off site asap
I’m not going to pretend I know better than the people who are buying them if they offer any real utility, but it’s not like they’re new. The Hilux has been around donkey’s years. It’s only the last couple of years they’ve started to catch on big-time. I don’t understand what’s changed that’s pushed a lot of lads away from the likes of a Transit into a Ford Ranger.
Although I’m sure there were plenty of people driving Land Cruisers before who are in Rangers now, and are carrying precisely the same amount of absolutely fuck all in them.
It’s huge tires and clearance are an advantage in a country with crumbling infrastructure.
Now that makes sense but also,most good vans can have mad clearance
Even most sedans and hatchbacks can be lifted a few inches which is enough to clear bad dirt or gravel roads.
Fucking A
I mean, not practically. Maybe if you routinely need to go to industrial plant construction sites for the early parts of construction before they’ve done things like generally flatten the area and cut something resembling a road. But even then it seems like overkill.
I guarantee that the mx-5 has carried more passengers and more cargo then that truck ever has or will.
The thing about America is that it’s full of loud, obnoxious assholes who do not take kindly to you if you point out the fact that they’re assholes (even subtly and without using that verbiage).
So nailed it, they get so mad for being told a simple truth that anyone can plainly see. Is it possible that inside their heads they’re the good guy? That simple reality enrages them?
Narcissists always see themselves as the hero or the victim. Either way, you’re wrong for suggesting they change a god damned thing about themselves.
I think many of them know they suck deep down somewhere as well. If anyone points it out, it confirms their innermost doubts and pisses them off immeasurably.
its owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.
To me, it’s more a case of the owner feeling entitled to do this. They have the (likely easier and much cheaper) option of buying a vehicle that’s appropriate to the primary environment they’ll be operating it in, and chose not to. This isn’t compulsion, it’s just another in a chain of selfish decisions.
Compelled to compensate for their insecurities about their masculinity
Yup! It always comes back to this
These vehciles should be banned for personal use and only allow businesses to buy them. That will reduce the amount of morons doong shit like this
We need a height limit. I have a 2010 1500. Even stock height on that was unnecessarily high. I lowered with a 2/4 kit. Perfect height and I can still do all the truck stuff, legit truck stuff, that I want. No issues in snow either.
The 1500 line has only gotten taller since. Again, completely unnecessary. There are tons of douche mobiles like the OP pic around here. Tons of idiots with those 2500s, or equivalent, around here. Those are usually because “muh diesel!”
Even businesses though. Why? The AF buys 1500s. Those haul auxilary power carts that weight the same as a VW bug. It takes 2 or 3 of us to push them.
Also, why would I buy a raised on as a business. I’ve just made it very difficult to get shit out of the bed for my employees now. I’ve just raised the chances that my employee is going to cause an accident because they can’t see shit around them.
“but I wanna off road!” I’ve done it in an 05 Colorado, stock height, at a local ORV park. That includes those ruts, driving up difficult inclines and even through a puddle almost up to the windows. If I can do that in one of those, you don’t need to raise your doucheness above for the world to see.
Interesting that drop kits are an easily-sourced thing nowadays, I’ve looked at modern trucks and genuinely wondered how one is supposed to access the bed without a stepladder as they come from the factory. I think it’s subtly damning that GMC, among others, has been marketing their multi-position tailgate’s ability to function as a bed step. They’ve made trucks so tall as a vanity thing that it negatively impacts the their ability to actually work as a utility vehicle.
I’ve been begging (sometimes literally, I know a guy who works at Ford) for a small Maverick or Ridgeline-sized PHEV pickup for years now, and the Big Three seem to be specifically avoiding making such a thing. I don’t need to be able to tow a guided missile cruiser, I don’t need to sit ten feet in the air to feel safe, I don’t want dual 30-gallon fuel tanks in case I need to drive to Cape Horn without stopping for some reason. I just want to be able to commute in town on electric power, handle small home-improvement hauling tasks (mulch, appliances, lumber, etc), and still be able to road trip or pull a small trailer in a pinch. And there are dozens of us, at least! I see people asking “PHEV Maverick when!?” anytime I search the Net for news on the topic. But nope, no PHEV pickup for you, unless you want to buy a Ramcharger – and deal with being associated with the kind of person who drives a Ram product. No thank you!
I love my 1500, I’m original owner and take meticulous care of her. That said, I’d absolutely love a PHEV Ram 50 or 2nd gen size S-10. Those are perfect for tooling around as a daily. I’ll be keeping Hemrietta until I’m Looney Tunes style sitting on the ground holding a steering wheel over getting a Brodozer.
I used Belltech’s 2/4. Their shocks sucked and produced a very rough ride. I replaced the rear shocks with QA1 single adjustables (drag racing and hobby track racing with her, so I need the adjustable range.)
IHC also makes kits. You may need their rear axle control arm relocation kit with Belltech’s 2/4. I needed it for mine. The Belltech track/panhard bar relocation bracket flexes too much. I had to ditch that and drill new holes in order to eliminate that bracket. She’s solid as a rock now.
I expected better handling, and it’s there, but it didn’t dawn on me that I’d see better acceleration. Those single adjustable shocks let the weight roll back and really dig those tires into the ground. When set to aggressive handling, they are amazing. Night and day corner and responsivness. Up to 60, solid handling. 60 to 75, responsive, smooth, fantastic. 75 to 90 (the fastest I’ve pushed so far until I can get a better track day), driving a race car made of clouds held up by angels.
Winter driving was a significant improvement. I didn’t have much issue before, but I had the usual bit of sliding on acceleration. I didn’t have to feather near as much. I try to use 4wd as little as possible. I didn’t have to touch it this year at all.
I have some significant medical issues as well. Getting in and out easily is a must. Getting in and out of the cab is much easier. Especially in the winter. Getting stuff out of the bed doesn’t require that awkward half tire step, or slight hop and resting painfully on your stomach over the side. I wish I’d have done this years ago.
But they need the 2500 HD Super Duty Ultra Platinum Tungsten edition with 4 inch lift to tow their lawnmower. Or maybe a pressure washer.
Honest question is what businesses would ever buy a jacked up and off dude bro truck for anything other then to make an executive feel like they have a bigger pp?
These things are not even good at being a truck, short bed that is too high to load/unload and a fuel economy of if you have to ask you can’t afford it does not make a good fleet truck.
A very small amount need massive pickup truck in the first place. Trailers or vans are generally more efficient in different metrics.
But banning them completely is hard, hence I suggest banning them for individuals at first
It sounds like the “vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living” is a self solving problem as long as the police actually enforces traffic regulations: if people chosing excessivelly large vehicle for the environment were they live keep on getting repeatedly fined because such vehicles in such environments “pressure their owners to continually break traffic law” they’ll chose differently.
This is probably part of the reason why such vehicles are very rare in European cities: in such places it’s even more likely that they have to break the law to park such a vehicle (smaller cities and parking space) and were the police is probably more likely to enforce such laws with a stern hand (in some countries fines even grow proportionally to one’s income), especially in some countries were it’s far more common for people to simply phone the police to denounce a vehicle parked in a way that outrageously breaks the rules.
I find that a lot of Europeans entertain the delusion that they arrived at safe, livable transit and streets by calling the cops a lot. I guess that’s an easy misconception to pick up if you grew up with those safe streets, where all that was left to maintain them was to pay taxes and occasionally call the cops, and when there’s a decent chance that those cops aren’t murderous racist fascists who don’t respond to the call.
But Europe, western and northern in particular, got their infrastructure by pitching a long and eventually successful political fight against automotive culture as a whole throughout the 60s - 80s. They redesigned their cities to accommodate walking and cycling, they staged mass protests, they passed automotive regulations to mostly ban the sorts of personal vehicles that are fundamentally incompatible with that sort of city. They didn’t oust motor culture from their city centers by calling the cops a lot. No, that’s just maintenance upkeep long after the win. The boomer-aged Europeans of today had to take up a long hard fight in an organized fashion to create that world for themselves and their kids.
It’s the exact same reason why Europe has better Labour Laws: decades ago the many fought to change the system so that they were not being constantly fucked up by the few.
The cops are just a mechanism for applying said good laws that people fought for in the past.
This is also why as many such laws have regressed in the last couple of decades, the utility of the cops for the general public regressed with them, and more and more what’s visible as the utility of the cops is the only kind of use of the powers of the state that has never wavered: the protection of the property and physical integrity of the wealthy and powerful.
None of this is transport specific, though it definitely gets reflected in transport (partly in terms of traffic laws, their application and the size of the penalties when they are broken, but even more so in general transportation policies such as public transportation and even the very design of streets putting more importance on non-car transportation and less on car transportation, which is why, for example, sidewalks are more common in Europe) because of its outsized impact in quality of life.
In fact I would say that the much broader availability of public transportation in Europe too is the product of the very same fights in the past to put the interest of the many above the interests of the few.
calling the cops about small things in the US can very easily destroy lives. Only do it when something is life or death.
Wow, crazy. I’m not sure that would be allowed on the road here in the UK. How do you see where you’re going when you’re driving? How do you get in?
I was sitting outside a restaurant eating breakfast the other day, a man was there with a small but rotund elderly woman who seemed to be his mother. They got up to leave and lo and behold, they head for the lifted Denali parked in the nearby handicap spot. Dude opens the passenger door and pulls out a legit, three step ladder and helps his mother climb up with great difficulty for both parties involved. I would have expected some cursing and complaining from the lady, about what a stupid truck that was and how she cannot possibly be expected climb into this absurd vehicle. But she looked fine. Used to it.
Appreciate you answering my unasked question
In most of Europe you’d need a truck license before even attempting to get it road legal.
In the UK, at least a while back, the Mazda wasn’t actually that small a car but it’s made to look tiny in comparison.
I wonder what an original mini would look like
The original mini had a length of just over 3m, width just under 1.5m, and a height of 1.3m.
The original Miata had a length of just under 4m, 1.6m width, and a height of like 1.6m (with the hard top, which adds like 16in)
Edit: the original mini had a curb weight of just shy of 1300lbs and mad 76hp, while the Miata was like 2000lbs and made 116hp
Edit: wrote “wheelbase”, but I meant “length”
Wow, I had no idea that the Mazda was taller than the mini, fascinating
Well, with the soft top the Miata was ever so slightly shorter. The Miata is ~123cm tall, while the mini was ~135mm tall
The original mini had a wheelbase of just over 3m
The wheelbase was just over 2m, but the total length was just over 3m.
Oh duh, you’re completely right. I looked up “length” and wrote “wheelbase” for both of them lol.
Ive fixed them now, thanks!
most of the wankers literally climb up a step
Innocent until proven guilty.
Call the police. Get their ass ticketed. That shit is illegal for a reason. Going to get someone killed.
I’m a vendor who works at a local jail, and I can almost park my Japanese import under the officer’s stupidly oversized maga trucks. But that doesn’t blow my mind. You know what does? A sworn officer whose civic duty is to serve and protect the public, badging his car on all sides with giant Decepticon emblems…so yeah, before you call the popo about big bad trucks parking illegally, find out what they drive!
Decepticon emblems?
What is this?
I am also interested in the connection to far right. Just did a search and didn’t find anything.
Ticketed and towed.
Towed especially, ticket is just icing on the shit cake.
im just always thinking about how does this huge ass vehicle park in a big city
They can’t park at the local Walmart in the burbs nor go through the dunkin drive through rurally either. It’s a bloated piece of shit for bloated pieces of … people.
These trucks literally dont fit in society and should stay on these folks farms, which they say they all have and is why they need these trucks.
Can’t fit a couch in that bed it’s all vanity
That’s the worst part, they don’t belong on farms. Not farmer worth their salt wants a gaudy piece of shit like this for farm work. Too heavy, too expensive and too difficult to fix when actually used. These vanity pieces are only for showing off, not hauling heavy pieces of equipment around as advertised. Heaviest thing these things move is the ego of the people who own them.
Yeah I work at a farm, and the car we use is a 4wd Toyota Hiace, with a trailer if needed. It’s beat up but does its work well.
I grew up using an S-10 as our farm truck
I can fit a lot in the bed of an S-10 unlike the truck pictured here
Right like how TF are you going to even put something heavy in the bed without injuring yourself
Compelled? Compelled??
i’ve got dozen++ neighbors with that kinda vehicle.
I guess some people are scared to drive in the USA without covering every inch of themselves in steel, fake carbon fiber, and Truck Nutz.
In all fairness, I’d be terrified to drive that Miata with that monster sitting in front of me. It makes you realize just how crazy the size difference is between these monstrosities and everything else on the road. If this Denali hits this Miata, it’ll decapitate anyone in the Miata. Full stop.
Crash testing needs to account for people outside the car, both in other size classes of vehicle (including bicycles and scooters) and pedestrians. This is policy failure. The Denali should not share road space with the other modes of transportation! Even if this person is an unrealistically perfect driver, their low beams are so high they’ll blind anyone in a shorter vehicle.
I can sort of understand huge semis and delivery vans since they literally need the storage space and they’re generally driven by people with CDLs. But even those should be smaller in urban environments (and suburban, and small towns).
Tragedy of the commons. How many people drive big SUVs because they’re blinded at night by tall vehicles otherwise, and they’re afraid of their children (or themselves) being killed in a crash in a small car? The only way to solve this is government, lawmaking, and enforcement.
It’s crazy how many micro penisses there are in the US, seeing the amount of penis-size-compensators on the road.
Or embarrassed by her obesity, knowing her fat ass could never fit in a Miata, right?
I wish the TÜV and Dekra were inspecting vehicles, using German standards, in the USA.
