Sometimes I think I’m going crazy but I can’t think of anything this trend in truck design is supposed to communicate except “I can run you over if you bother me.”

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A reply called such trucks - assault vehicles.

  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    No secret, they’ll say this out loud to you if you’re another white guy like them without any real provocation or anything

  • trucks in the US peaked with the 1982 VW Rabbit Pickup, with it’s mischievous 1.6-liter diesel rated at a wily 52-horsepower. these can still be found on the road, puttering along doing the work of kings.

    honorable mentions: the 1972-1980 Chevy LUV, 1980–1986 Datsun 620

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    I once owned a 1978 Dodge stepside truck. That thing was big and obnoxiously loud, and had an engine that could easily empty an entire oil refinery in a couple of months.

    But it was nowhere near as ridiculous as whatever the fuck this is supposed to be. And at least it looked cool.

  • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    Trucks like this have all sorts of problems due to their distorted features, but truck breeders keep making them more deformed in an attempt to follow aesthetic trends, even though they’re causing the truck a lifetime of pain. They weren’t always this way either; look at a 1999 Chevy Silverado and you’ll see a normal looking truck, look at a 2022 model and you’ll see a truck with a vertically-stretched and smashed in snout that makes it have trouble breathing. That’s why you should always get trucks from a reputable breeder, or better, adopt a truck from a shelter.