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angryrobots posted:Also the bragging about overloading small cars and trucks to their suspension stops is actually terrible car stuff, not evidence of your massive weiner. I think you'll find it's my massive wiener that's overloading my suspension 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Ohhh you wanna open the windows do you?
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Cacafuego posted:The traditional market for F150/Silverado/Ram also don’t want no <insert Asian racist term> made trucks. Never underestimate racism in your stereotypical American truck buyer. What's really hilarious is how many Tundras I've seen with big stickers on the back window pointing out how it was made in USA, like they have to justify their purchase. Humphreys posted:LOL That's no ute. So, what is a Toyota HiLux, then? I mean, I know a ute is a car based thing with a load bed, but every time I've seen something talking about what we in the US would call a "pickup truck", in Oz, they say ute. so I called the MB/Nissan a ute.
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Some Aussies have a hard time with the Falcodore dying and don't consider the current crop of Thai built pickups as 'real utes'. Normal people would call anything with a tray a ute.
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mobby_6kl posted:They sell a ton of vans and other commercial vehicles so it kind of makes sense to have a truck too but I guess nobody was impressed by a rebadgges nissan. Thing is a fancy ute is seen as a status symbol whereas a van or truck is just a work tool.
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mobby_6kl posted:They sell a ton of vans and other commercial vehicles so it kind of makes sense to have a truck too but I guess nobody was impressed by a rebadgges nissan. The first I heard of the Mercedes pickup, it was going to be released in South Africa first, building on the Navarra's reputation and the Mercedes badge's cachet. Evidently the previous MB pick up was made by Ssangyong. I was not aware that their relationship went both directions.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I think you'll find it's my massive wiener that's overloading my suspension If you wanna call those springs you took out of a ballpoint pen suspension, sure. 
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Darchangel posted:What's really hilarious is how many Tundras I've seen with big stickers on the back window pointing out how it was made in USA, like they have to justify their purchase. UTE implies that the bed and the cabin are one ‘body’ no gap. El Camino is a UTE. HiLux isn’t. Subaru BRAT was a UTE.
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Wait, so would a Chevy Avalanche be a ute? And a Ford Falcon with a flat bed not be a ute?
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VideoGameVet posted:UTE implies that the bed and the cabin are one ‘body’ no gap. Again, *I* know what I would classify as a Ute, but that’s not all I’ve seen it applied to. I guess the Honda Ridgeline is a Ute, then? How about the ‘60s Ford Unibody pickup? I’m not trying to bust your balls - I agree with your take. I just happened to think of the Ridgeline and Unibody just now. Edit: oh right, the Avalanche, too. Thanks. Forgot about that one. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Mar 27, 2021 01:53
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VideoGameVet posted:UTE implies that the bed and the cabin are one ‘body’ no gap. You can complain all you want but this is not the general usage anymore (if it ever was, I can't ever remember the Hilux and similar not being referred to as a ute)
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Mar 27, 2021 02:01
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VideoGameVet posted:UTE implies that the bed and the cabin are one ‘body’ no gap. A Holden 1 tonner is a Ute. The Ford Falcon trayback is a Ute. The HiLux is called a Ute in the country that invented them. It's a Ute.  This is 100% a Ute. CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Mar 27, 2021 02:19
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If you don't think a Hilux is a ute your bloody head's screwed on backwards.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:36
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I thought we were talking about young people
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angryrobots posted:Was going to say all of this. The Taco is very expensive for what you get, and returns poor fuel mileage. Better to load a truck to capacity once in awhile than commute in a 15MPG land freighter completely unloaded. The number of people using trucks as trucks is still decreasing, as most contractors shift to panel vans so they don't have to pack a step stool to load poo poo at Home Depot. They're ridiculous, almost every other country in the world gets by without them, certainly without using them as insane, over polluting daily drivers. The Taco might not get great fuel economy for its size, but at least you can get a dirt bike in the bed comfortably and park in a single parking space.
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Goober Peas posted:I thought we were talking about young people I just wanted you to know, I appreciate this My Cousin Vinny reference.
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Elmnt80 posted:If you wanna call those springs you took out of a ballpoint pen suspension, sure. Oh you haven't heard of the four-spring dick technique?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:A Holden 1 tonner is a Ute. The Ford Falcon trayback is a Ute. The HiLux is called a Ute in the country that invented them. It's a Ute.
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madeintaipei posted:The first I heard of the Mercedes pickup, it was going to be released in South Africa first, building on the Navarra's reputation and the Mercedes badge's cachet. Yup. Ssangyong sourced engines from MB for a while, from the mid 90s to the mid-late 00s. When those engines broke you could just grab an OM60* (aside from the 606 which i believe doesnt fit in an actyon) and it would just drop right in. Most countries you couldnt walk into a junkyard and not trip over one. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Elviscat posted:Better to load a truck to capacity once in awhile than commute in a 15MPG land freighter completely unloaded. An Ecoboost F150 gets far better gas mileage than a Tacoma, especially when loaded BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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Mar 27, 2021 16:54
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Chris Knight posted:If you mount a .50 cal in the back, is it a technical? Technically, yes
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VideoGameVet posted:UTE implies that the bed and the cabin are one ‘body’ no gap. Ute stands for Utility Coupe, therefore it was based off a regular passenger car, so in the words of the farmer who sent the request to Ford Australia: "a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays". Therefore anything built as a pickup first and foremost, like a F150, Hilux or Silverado already cancel themselves out there.
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You Am I posted:Ute stands for Utility Coupe, therefore it was based off a regular passenger car, so in the words of the farmer who sent the request to Ford Australia: "a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays". Why didn't he just get a dually F-350 King Ranch edition supercab 
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"how can I take something that's not that great to start with and then make it demonstrably worse in every single way?"
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That has to be a front-end wreck, right? No way did somebody come up with that out of the blue
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Mar 30, 2021 06:50
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Memento posted:"how can I take something that's not that great to start with and then make it demonstrably worse in every single way?" I don't know, this is in the realms of being so terrible that it might just be awesome.
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MrOnBicycle posted:I don't know, this is in the realms of being so terrible that it might just be awesome. Please seek help for your broke brain 
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Mar 30, 2021 12:17
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I'm trying to wrap my head around the steering controls based on what's visible.
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Mar 30, 2021 15:04
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Is it controlled by that side rod attached to the front forks? Looks like it might attach to some kind of steering rack, but those linkages don't exactly inspire confidence.
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Memento posted:"how can I take something that's not that great to start with and then make it demonstrably worse in every single way?" Robin Reliant II
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VideoGameVet posted:Robin Reliant 2: Eclectic Smart Fortwo.
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Memento posted:"how can I take something that's not that great to start with and then make it demonstrably worse in every single way?" Very bad idea, or insurance/road legality shenanigans? Technically that could be classified as trike, and driven with a motorcycle license, which in turn in some countries cannot be revoked.
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Der Kyhe posted:Very bad idea, or insurance/road legality shenanigans? Technically that could be classified as trike, and driven with a motorcycle license, which in turn in some countries cannot be revoked. Yeah, my first thought was northern england DUImobile.
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So in some places the solution to people who drink and drive is to... make them ride motorcycles drunk instead?
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It makes sense from a utilitarian perspective. At least when they crash they won't kill anyone but themselves
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Steely Dad posted:So in some places the solution to people who drink and drive is to... make them ride motorcycles drunk instead? It's usually mopeds. Long standing loophole for DDs. Indiana now requires insurance to drive mopeds and scooters, something you can't get with a DD on your record. So that closed off that option.
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Sagebrush posted:It makes sense from a utilitarian perspective. At least when they crash they won't kill anyone but themselves Wanna bet
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Midjack posted:Wanna bet It is a pretty good bet. Some years ago a finnish car magazine did a review on bike fatalities, about 25 fatalities spanning couple years. Only one of those fatalities wasn't a rider or a passenger. That case was some old man who walked between parked cars to the road and was hit by a bike, and the pedestrian was found to be at fault. It seems it's relatively difficult to kill someone else than yourself with a bike.
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Saukkis posted:It is a pretty good bet. Some years ago a finnish car magazine did a review on bike fatalities, about 25 fatalities spanning couple years. Only one of those fatalities wasn't a rider or a passenger. That case was some old man who walked between parked cars to the road and was hit by a bike, and the pedestrian was found to be at fault. It seems it's relatively difficult to kill someone else than yourself with a bike. There's more than enough evidence online that in fact it's a lovely bet and as well it's not just the rider being turned into a smear that is the only person affected even if the rider is the only one killed.
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While I'm not advocating at all for drunks to be given bike licences that's some pretty crappy "your tears say more than real evidence ever could" level thinking considering the direction was obviously "you're more likely to just kill yourself"
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