For a second I thought this was a damn advertisement.
I like you picking a Scania and a Peterbuilt to represent real trucks. A person of great taste for sure.
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
I live in Wyoming and I want to get a 4x4 half ton with a full bed so in the winter I can slap a hydraulic flat bed on it for two snowmobiles and a snow plow on the front. In the summer it would tow my ruggedized camper and maybe dirt bikes in the bed.
They are super useful but “luxury” and/or urban pick-ups have given them a bad reputation.
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.
…less than one in ten…
There are real pickup trucks too, but I don’t see any in this meme and I rarely see them in the street.
Does my 2001 Toyota Tacoma single cab count?
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)
Maybe I am remembering the wrong movie but I feel like I learned that in a cheesy romcom, “A Perfect Pairing.” Always be a guilty pleasure for me, always wonder if those are more offensive in their depictions of slang/dialect than accurate.
As long as it has a usable bed
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.
A real man drives a Suzuki Carry!
edit: image searched “small japanese pickup” on DDG initially… got a whole other set of results 🤣
wdym 🤔
is that safe search on or off? not sure what uit means.
aan = on, uit = off
uit means off
And as a bonus getting hit with one will send you to a fantasy world
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.
the “pushed in muzzle” is because of pedestrian safety requirements ironically
the “hit em in the fuckin head so they don’t suffer” requirement?
Can’t report hitting a pedestrian if you never saw or felt the pedestrian you hit
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!
People want crossovers, unfortunately.
Gender affirming care
holy shit pls tell me you made that
hey, i saw an ESV actually full of stuff in its back part yesterday
it only took 17 years to see one!
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).
If someone doesn’t agree, then I propose we also call these trucks
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.
Never seen anyone own a van just to own a van
Exactly
I’d love a Ranger or an Amarok…truth is it would be wank to drive, expensive to maintain and run, impractical, and horrendous to park. Plus I have no use for it whatsoever.
Don’t give people any ideas, I’m sure some would commute in a semi if they thought it made them more manly.
In an urban environment, yes.
The super tall oversized trend is actually terrible for nost uses in rural areas too. It is far harder to see what is around you and to squeeze through tight places compared to an old s10 or ranger.
It’s like everyone went in on making the size commonly used for pulling horse trailers but without the fifth wheel. Hard to blame people for not buying what isn’t being manufactured anymore.
Yep. I own a pickup that I actually use and let me tell you I hate how tall that bastard is. I’ve mentioned before that I miss my old Datsun. My buddy had a Courier. We could load shit in the bed of both without worrying about it being a two person job because it was actually low enough to toss shit in the bed without having someone to hand it up to.
Even smaller models like the S10 and Ranger are far too tall now. Where’s my stripped down, low without being a lowrider, useful truck? Put that sumbitch on the market and I’d pick it up.
I just saw the Hilux, but yeah, the rest of those vehicles are terrible poser machines and not fit for purpose.
Interrupting a circle jerk is poor manners.
Yeah, my apologies. I was just apoplectic with rage that they had the audacity to include a Hilux. One of the most important and best vehicles ever built - probably.
that’s a Tacoma
So it is. Didn’t even know they existed. Less pick-uppie than a Hilux, apparently. More car like in its set up. I’d still imagine its abilities are head and shoulders above the other things in the image.
Probably. It’s just not as monumental as the mighty Hilux, being a (mostly) north american thing, made to appeal to them.
Whether you’re building a new fence for your Victorian era farmhouse or deposing a warlord …. The HiLux is your vehicle.
