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razorscooter posted:
I wonder if this has a higher or lower chance of flipping over on the approach to Indianapolis corner than the real ones
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Mar 15, 2021 23:30
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Pretty sure it'd explode like an old tool shed in a tornado before it even got up to speed
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Code Jockey posted:is this too long for a thread title Extremely.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Pretty sure it'd explode like an old tool shed in a tornado before it even got up to speed The visual! Perfect.
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Elmnt80 posted:Extremely.
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https://twitter.com/nuerburgring/status/1372095748515434503 Well that loving sucks.
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Mar 17, 2021 10:44
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I had the chance to get to know her personally a couple years ago. She was a wonderful person with a heart warming smile and although she was already battling cancer at the time, you could really not tell at all just from the happiness she radiated at motorsport events.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:42
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I only knew her from Top Gear but her utterly owning Clarkson by driving a delivery van around the Ring faster than he'd done in a Jaguar, and with rapier sarcasm the whole time, was one of the best things I'd ever seen on TV.
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Data Graham posted:I only knew her from Top Gear but her utterly owning Clarkson by driving a delivery van around the Ring faster than he'd done in a Jaguar, and with rapier sarcasm the whole time, was one of the best things I'd ever seen on TV. Amen. Her gleeful cackle was the highlight of the show.
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https://twitter.com/thealso/status/1372128818241110018?s=20
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Data Graham posted:I only knew her from Top Gear but her utterly owning Clarkson by driving a delivery van around the Ring faster than he'd done in a Jaguar, and with rapier sarcasm the whole time, was one of the best things I'd ever seen on TV. Yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc
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Mar 17, 2021 18:46
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Didn’t feel like working earlier today, so I reverted to my default activity of looking at lovely vehicles on Autotrader. And holy moly, I never would have guessed that the Ram 1500 had such a hideous mess of a gauge cluster 
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Mar 17, 2021 22:28
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lmao, I have a 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 5.7 with about 55k miles on it to tow my trailer. The tach stopped working like ten years ago and it just kinda bounces around whenever it feels like it. Additionally: Ignition cylinder no longer requires a key and you can remove the key wherever you want in the travel Coil pack harness had shorts so the dealership ran separate individual wires to a few coilpack connectors One of the heads cracked and was replaced under warranty Either the sunroof or the windshield leaks when it rains, it drips out of the grab handles
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Bouillon Rube posted:Didn’t feel like working earlier today, so I reverted to my default activity of looking at lovely vehicles on Autotrader. Rams are american stuff. But they are seeping into Australia. Everyone that gets one is severely reticuled and laughed at for having a tiny weiner. My boss has one and now won't drive it to site on account of the laughter.
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Mar 18, 2021 03:00
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Just in the last 6-8 months there's loving dozens of enormous brodozer yank tanks around the streets of Melbourne. Rams, F-whatevers and Chevy trucks. I give a mate of mine enough poo poo for buying a Raptor, they're about 80k, but I was having a chat with a guy walking his dog who parked in a Ram and he said it cost a hundred and sixty thousand dollars. What the gently caress, man?
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Mar 18, 2021 03:04
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Memento posted:Just in the last 6-8 months there's loving dozens of enormous brodozer yank tanks around the streets of Melbourne. Rams, F-whatevers and Chevy trucks. I give a mate of mine enough poo poo for buying a Raptor, they're about 80k, but I was having a chat with a guy walking his dog who parked in a Ram and he said it cost a hundred and sixty thousand dollars. What the gently caress, man? We rip on people for having a Ranger - let alone a yank tank lol
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Mar 18, 2021 03:05
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What?! Here I was thinking the price was crazy in the US.
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Bouillon Rube posted:Didn’t feel like working earlier today, so I reverted to my default activity of looking at lovely vehicles on Autotrader. "I HOPE I CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT KINDA TRUCK I'M IN" Pity they can't read. DTE 6 miles with an eighth of a tank. nice. Humphreys posted:Rams are american stuff. But they are seeping into Australia. Everyone that gets one is severely reticuled and laughed at for having a tiny weiner. My boss has one and now won't drive it to site on account of the laughter. Stateside these big rear end brodozers are the universal symbol for tiny weiner and magat. Just wow at spending $160k for a cryco product.
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Mar 18, 2021 03:08
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cursedshitbox posted:"I HOPE I CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT KINDA TRUCK I'M IN" The Dangerous Rise of the Supersized Pickup Truck - Bloomberg quote:To Albert, the booming appeal of bigger and more brutish trucks reflects “a crisis of masculinity,” he says. “Nothing could be more emasculating than driving a minivan. So you want the vehicle that’s going to maintain your performative masculinity.”
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Mar 18, 2021 03:45
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kastein posted:What?! Here I was thinking the price was crazy in the US. They also get a RHD conversion that aint cheap. loving dumb as poo poo considering there's any number of utes that are actually good.
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Mar 18, 2021 03:47
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This comic on authoritarianism looks at trucks a bit, too. https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/
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I've been blasted by coal rolling fucks on my bike. I like to go to the hardware store in the evening, when all the old people are asleep, and the contractors are home, I like to park in the loading bay if I'm picking up more than 500lbs of poo poo, and it's always peak brodozer/Yank Tank (thanks) time. They like to park like this.  Then load their 3 2x4's into their 7,000lb payload capacity commuter vehicle and gently caress off.  Brosef here had to use a stepladder to load his 5 pieces of trim. This poo poo is crazy.
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I worked with a guy that would daily his dualie to our office job and park in such a way that he'd take up the four closest spaces to the door (because the truck was too wide and long to fit in a single spot), then bitch about how much debt he has.
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I saw this article recently and it makes complete sense with the current gen of trucks' styling coming from the big three. How big they've gotten? My 31 year old single cab 8 foot bed 4wd-not-lifted diesel F350 farm truck is about the size of a new ranger, maybe a F150. They're taller, wider, have taller beltlines, higher beds, yet smaller windows so that nobody can see out of, or in. Not to mention the single cab is basically dead so they're all significantly longer sporting 4 doors. Its all an affront. These things have gotten larger, heavier, packed with luxury options to deflect minivan sales to otherwise insecure man children. They're safer for the occupants at the detriment of everybody around them. Its extra enraging when they cue up a coal tune or outright try to ram cyclists or pedestrians. They pilot the things like there are no road laws or etiquette. They drive like their guy told them it was ok to be a giant piece of poo poo, and that because they themselves got an 84 month loan, they made it and other people are lesser and therefore should bow their superiority. I love driving and traveling by vehicle but this covid hellworld poo poo we're in? It belongs in this thread. I've been wandering the western states in a 31 year old farmtruck and the experiences so far on the road is that its as politicized as vaccines, masks, or helping out the poor drowning at the hands of the rich. Its loving tragic. This country is loving tragic. This isn't civilized. E2: beaten like all hell: Uthor posted:This comic on authoritarianism looks at trucks a bit, too. Its exactly the kind of vehicles and behavior I'm seeing on the roads. E: Elviscat posted:I've been blasted by coal rolling fucks on my bike. Just today someone tried to run down my husband on a bicycle in a truck. He was nearly killed being hit by a car in 2016. Oh. gently caress. No. Same loving parking and utilization too. Big ole truck, parking like a shitstain, barely utilizing it to haul more than their fat kids or wife. cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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Uthor posted:This comic on authoritarianism looks at trucks a bit, too. That was a really good read, cheers.
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Uthor posted:I worked with a guy that would daily his dualie to our office job and park in such a way that he'd take up the four closest spaces to the door (because the truck was too wide and long to fit in a single spot), then bitch about how much debt he has. I broke a tail light backing into a Ford truck. It was dark and I didn't notice it parked about six spaces down from me. I just backed out of my spot, spun the wheel, got ready to put it in first and then crunch. It was an F-350 King Ranch long bed. The fucker was over 20' long and stuck halfway out into the parking lot lane. It went 10' beyond the end of the lines, even though it was pulled fully in to the curb. My own car could pull to the curb with 3' of line extending behind it. The bottom edge of the bumper just caught the back right corner of my car. I almost fit under it. A ridiculously large vehicle.
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Uthor posted:This comic on authoritarianism looks at trucks a bit, too. Eh, I've seen this before, and while I think it makes some valid points, and certainly identifies trends in American culture, it assumes far too deep a level of reasoning for these actions besides dipshits going "black ops military man cool!" The inference built on an inference reminds me of Q poo poo.
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Memento posted:Just in the last 6-8 months there's loving dozens of enormous brodozer yank tanks around the streets of Melbourne. Rams, F-whatevers and Chevy trucks. I give a mate of mine enough poo poo for buying a Raptor, they're about 80k, but I was having a chat with a guy walking his dog who parked in a Ram and he said it cost a hundred and sixty thousand dollars. What the gently caress, man? Low interest rates dude. If any of the banks raised their interest rates by .25% you'll see abandoned twin cab Utes littering the sides of roads like people do in with their supercars in the Middle East
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Uthor posted:I worked with a guy that would daily his dualie to our office job and park in such a way that he'd take up the four closest spaces to the door (because the truck was too wide and long to fit in a single spot), then bitch about how much debt he has. and then promptly lose everything within 30 days of getting laid off because you have zero savings other than your "toy investments" and no marketable skills other than semi-skilled manual labor that translates into minimum wage everywhere else.
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You Am I posted:Low interest rates dude. If any of the banks raised their interest rates by .25% you'll see abandoned twin cab Utes littering the sides of roads like people do in with their supercars in the Middle East That would be great, because I could pick up a lightly used Hilux or something for a steal. The best part about my mate with the Raptor (2.0L twin turbo diesel engine) is when he was telling me about it after he bought it and I said "oh yeah, my wife's Focus has a 2.0L engine" as if there was any similarity at all. He couldn't help himself and launched into a massive diatribe about turbos and diesel compression ratios and torque curves etc etc. The lowest hanging fruit, but still funny.
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quote:These vehicles have a voracious appetite for space, one that’s increasingly irreconcilable with the way cities (and garages, and parking lots) are built. The neighbor who has the garage under my living room..... pretty new Ram 2500 crew cab 4x4. It doesn't fit through the garage in any way - it's too tall to clear the top of the door frame, MIGHT be able to barely squeeze in by the sides if the mirrors are removed (not folded in) if it didn't have hips. Garage is probably long enough for it, so there's that (my Outback fits easily length-wise with a good 8 ft to spare, but I occasionally bump a mirror pulling in). So they use the garage for storage and park the Ram in front of it. For comparison, I parked a newish U-Haul box truck (only a 10 footer) next to it for several days, and it made the U-Haul look like a toy. Another neighbor had a beefed up 4Runner - they couldn't close the garage with it in there. It did fit with the door opened fully, but it didn't clear the arm on the door opener - so the door just remained open while they lived here. That 4Runner had a decent lift on it though. Would have made more sense for them to just get a covered parking space ($35 vs $100), especially since they just had the one car and weren't using the garage for storage.
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Yank Tank is a wonderful phrase also I would kill for a ute in the USA 
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Elviscat posted:I've been blasted by coal rolling fucks on my bike. I've had trucks roll coal at me when I'm in my Focus. They probably think it's just a basic compact eco car until I go to pass them and they realize their cummins powered dually can't keep up with a blue M&M colored hatchback.
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Code Jockey posted:Yank Tank is a wonderful phrase A great term I saw recently is G.A.P.S. for "Great American Potency Syndrome", the need to have more than is needed, just in case. More truck, more food, more guns, more prepper stockpiles, more MORE.
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Code Jockey posted:Yank Tank is a wonderful phrase I can help a little if you want when looking for one if you wan. But theres a guy that brings them in: Sorry it's a Vinwiki video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTOEX-qJB8
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I love cars, motorcycles, anything that's motorized or has wheels really, but I can't understate how much I loving hate brotrucks. It's gotten to the point to where I just see every crossover or suv in the same lens as brotrucks now. I wish there was something that could be done to get them off the road and get the drivers of them into therapy or at least to understand how much of a shitstain they are.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:I love cars, motorcycles, anything that's motorized or has wheels really, but I can't understate how much I loving hate brotrucks. It's gotten to the point to where I just see every crossover or suv in the same lens as brotrucks now. I wish there was something that could be done to get them off the road and get the drivers of them into therapy or at least to understand how much of a shitstain they are. Yeah SUVs, and softroaders poo poo me to tears. "He's got a big car and he drives real fast, but you cant see where ya going with your head up your rear end" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blO3EtP_D10
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I hate how I try to make a turn out of a business and try to look both ways to clear the intersection and have a big dumb SUV or truck pull up next to me, entirely blocking my view, either requiring me to pull into the intersection a little to see around them, or wait until they go.
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