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Wow, it costs alot of money to be an idiot. You can get a truck that is equally, if not more functional for 10 grand. You could even super splurge and get one for 30k that is even incredibly similar on the non-functional stuff too. There are much better things to spend the 100k remaining than the difference between a 30k truck and a 130k truck.
I grew up on a tobacco farm, shit ton of manual labor, and the extended families all helped each other
A cousin had a jacked up truck (obviously we're all hillbillies).
But he lifted it so much, it couldn't hitch to a trailer, and only one of the wagons. He took a functional truck and made it almost impossible to actually use it for anything.
I've been shitting on all the idiots driving lifted trucks ever since. I have zero idea why so many guys live in cities and work desk jobs but drive a giant truck for their commute. And there is an insane amount of them at my current job.
My point is, even in rural areas this shit is completely useless. The only reason anyone buys them is they're insecure in their own masculinity. They need a big truck to feel like a big boy
Those idiots also drove the price up for those of us who need them for what they're meant for...work.
These big yank tanks are nothing but penis extensions, they're not used for work. People out bush all own Hilux or Navaras
The jacked up ones, %100 agreed, but the large trucks designed for hauling are used exactly for that, hauling. I say this as a Toyota guy, I have a 1st gen tundra I use all time out here, but I'm not delusional and think it can do what the f350 we have can.
A cab-over is much more practical 99% of the time. An Isuzu N-Series or Hino 300 has much higher GCM, more comfortable cabin and larger bed.
They just aren’t fitted with V8-powered inadequacy compensators.
Then what? You're other vehicles? An n series or hino 300 is a baby lorri, not a truck.
https://www.hino.com.au/news/hino-launches-high-horsepower-300-series-models/
And while we are at it....those cabs are not more comfortable than our truck cabs, we have trucks just like them here and they're fucking awful for long hauls.
Weird how not a single contractor, farmer or labourer in any other countries need them huh? They're not made for work.
Drive up to a building site in one of those and be prepared for someone to spray a massive cock n balls on it with expanding foam
weird how they use semis/lorries usually for large equipment, when here in the usa we haul most of our own equipment. A hilux is not hauling a 12k lb skid steer, or even a small dozer, or 20 1k lb round bales of hay. Most builders haul most of their shit with them. Weird how you don't know what you're talking about.
Read - builders can't afford the equipment they need because they got tricked into spending 100k on a tiny-penis-compensation truck lol
No builder is buying a 100k truck... you're not even making any sense, stay in your lane on your tiny island and keep thinking how your little world works the same everywhere.
They actually have them on the massive continent where I live, well, just a few.
People put stickers on the back of them saying "fuck your environment, I'm compensating for my micropenis" 😂
Cool I hope those people like to eat.
They do, they're just not fat
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/update-to-the-obesity-profile-on-fingertips/obesity-profile-short-statistical-commentary-may-2024#:~:text=age%20and%20sex.-,Main%20findings,aged%2018%20years%20and%20over)
Ok...sure.
When I am supreme emperor, Carolina squats will be punishable by death.
Carolina squats are the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen someone do to a truck. Trucks already have bad sight lines, and squatting makes it exponentially worse to the point that you can’t even see the traffic ahead of you.
Anyone caught squatting their truck should immediately get impounded and get a suspended license.
There are companies now that make adjustable height hitches for what I believe is that exact reason
Granted I've never seen a truck with one of those towing anything, but it at least adds a little bit of functionality back!
Mixing ride height to that extent is something no one that knows what they're doing would do...
So they'll probably sell a lot to the idiots buying lifted trucks who just want to be able to say they could tow something but still never will.
Most likely the case, a lot like the lifted 4 wheel drive jeeps that only ever see parking lots. They could go off-road, but likely never will
My mother-in-law is one of these. She drives a 4WD jeep, which has never willingly been off of the pavement. They were doing some construction outside of her neighborhood, and the turn into her street was filled with gravel for a few months while the concrete was torn up. She would slowly crawl over the gravel section at like half a mile an hour, because she was afraid of breaking something on her jeep. Even I went faster than she did, and I drive a midsize sedan.
My wife and I joked that she could have hopped the curb and driven across the adjacent field, and still made it to the main road faster than if she had creeped across the gravel.
Legit fear. Jeeps are dog shit.
Jeeps are perfectly fine vehicles… Until they’re not. It’s like they have a built-in killswitch from the factory, where every single dashboard warning light is designed to turn on in the same three or four days.
In the early 2000s Jeep Australia had a policy of voiding warranty’s if the vehicle had 4WD engaged at any time.
I have seen several towing.
One was the owner of a Health Drink company and had a mobile kitchen for events.
Another was an oversized-palatial-mansion-suite-on-wheels (caravan). It was too big to fit in the caravan park.
Adjustable height hitches are practical for most tow vehicles to get a safe and level load.
The ADR 62 and Australian Standard 4177 also dictate legal ball heights for towing (basically a 50mm ball has to be no more than 400mm from the road surface).
Even the factory Towbar that was supplied with my Suzuki Jimny mounted the ball at 395mm (which was barely legal).
(Articulated Hitches like pin hitches or block hitches don’t have this restriction. I use a ball for my little garden trailer and a DO35 for my lightweight off-road camper. I have different height drop-hitches for each type of trailer.)
Just out of curiosity, did women his age find his truck interesting/attractive?
Yeah, but hes also had a legit mullet his whole life and that doesnt do too badly either...
He didn't get it for that tho. But yeah, in general country girls do legitimately like guys in ridiculously huge trucks.
It's a real thing.
The confusing part is people thinking it works in a city.
Most rural areas don't have much of an economy, so big, expensive, lifted trucks show that the guy has a job that can at least pay for those things. It's not unlike men in urban areas wearing expensive clothes and accessories like watches. It shows they have money, and to a certain segment of the population that's enough to get them interested.
It's been my observation that the people most interested in talking about or staring at large trucks, is prepubescent boys. Ergo, as far as I'm concerned, the only reason to have a huge unusable pavement princess is to because you want to show kids your "monster truck".
Yes it does but no you cant, this is the Australian market with the Australian dollar. Brand new dual cab diesels like the Ranger or Hilux are $70k plus, Brand new Chinese dual cabs are $40k. Once you start looking at 3.5 ton+ towing the market gets pretty skinny and most of them are 100k plus. We dont have a history of massive pickup trucks like big old F350s and C30s that are cheap enough that you can just have one for when you need to tow.
Utility vehicles that run and drive and arent heaps of absolute shit here are around $5k if they are roadworthy because theres always a new apprentice plumber who needs a work vehicle. If this guy NEEDS to tow big things over long distances and wants to do it in comfort, its not a long list of vehicles. Not arguing that THIS guy isnt almost certainly a wanker, but I know the local market and know it well.
Edit: just out of curiosity I opened up Carsales, a fully loaded F350 here is over $250k, Ram Laramie too. For $30k there were 4 cars in the whole country that could tow 4 ton and they were all 90s landrover defenders, only 1 with reasonable mileage. For $10k you can get a 2013 Ranger with 320,000kms on the odo but it can only tow 3.5. Theres nothing that can tow 4 tons for less than 20k and its a thrashed 90s Landrover with 410,000 kms on the clock.
Australia doesn’t exist.
Yes it does.
See many many years ago the Poms found a lovely sunny place thats amazing to live and decided that it sounded like a brilliant place to send their convicts while they stayed home, got wet all the time, died of consumption in T'Pit and got really shit at all the sports they sent us over with.
Also, whats the different between a british airways jet and a british tourist? The jet stops whining when it reaches Sydney.
Did a British upset you?
Who hasn’t the British upset?
Probably Canadians, but no one can upset a Canadian.
I remember seeing a RAM 3500 around Sydney, and wondering what would posses someone to import it.
I know a few people with one or something like it.
Its mostly people who have a legitimate business case for owning one (Landscapers/Builders/Horsey people) and use that as a justification to own one that also suits their weekend pursuits. (Race cars, boating, 4x4, caravanning/camping)
If you can make your work vehicle also your family vehicle and part of your toy collection AND tax deduct the lot... makes sense.
I have a neighbour that is none of those things and owns a black one. He is a big fella, and nice enough bloke, but often has to reverse back up suburban streets because he can’t get past the parked cars.
His wife has a white Tesla 3 and is stereotypical “I have a self-driving car so I don’t need to look up when I am driving”.
Penis Enlargement Surgery is only $30k max. Fella like this . . .