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Scarodactyl posted:South Carolina, nervously looking over its shoulder and whispering: It's Ohio, and it's because of Ohioans going to Myrtle Beach.
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New Ford F-150 design just dropped. 
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Feb 6, 2023 10:36
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piL posted:New Ford F-150 design just dropped. It's a child! 
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Feb 6, 2023 12:38
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At this point, they're hardly useful as trucks anymore. Daddy just doesn't want to drive a minivan or sedan but still needs a four-door to haul the kids sometimes. My Sonata has more carrying capacity than many of these. I fold down the rear seat and I can fit 8 foot lumber and still close the trunk lid.
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Feb 6, 2023 16:52
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Are the bed actually get shorter or the whole thing getting longer?
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Feb 6, 2023 18:04
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Xenoborg posted:Are the bed actually get shorter or the whole thing getting longer? Doesn't matter, either way. Here at Procrustes Auto Mall, we'll find a truck bed that fits you!
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Feb 6, 2023 18:17
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It's kind of a specious graph. The oldest one pictured is a two-door with a full length bed while the last one is a four-door crew cab with the short bed. You can still buy a two-door F-150 with an 8 foot bed today. It is larger than the old F-150, but the ratio of cab to bed is about the same as always. However, it is absolutely true that back in the 70s everyone was buying the full bed two door and now everyone is buying the crew cab truckivan with the piddly little five foot bed. The only place you'll encounter the one I posted above is fleets of work trucks for utility companies and stuff. Sagebrush has a new favorite as of 18:27 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Feb 6, 2023 18:25
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Xenoborg posted:Are the bed actually get shorter or the whole thing getting longer? Using this site for data, the overall length of the base model jumped in the late 90s but hasn't really gotten much longer since then: 1992-96: 197" 1997-2003: 207" 2004-2008: 211" 2009-2014: 213" 2015-2020: 209" 2021-2023: 209" The bigger cabs are much more common nowadays though, and those add 2-3 feet, though they'll often have the bed that's a foot shorter.
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Feb 6, 2023 18:53
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I think the misleading part of that graph is particularly the fact that all the trucks are scaled to be the same size. Although I concede it is possible that every single generation of F150 has been exactly the same length, somehow I doubt it. EDIT: I realize this is probably a "gee thanks tips" reply after the last couple of replies. Trucks are obviously getting monstrously large and it's a real problem. You see a lot of stuff like this these days:  Which is pretty scary when you think about it. They're also not even trying to hide the fact that they aren't utility vehicles anymore. A relative of mine gets a new leased work truck every couple of years and the one he just got is some brand-new 2023 GMC. It's obscene how big the cab interior is; I asked someone sitting behind me if they wanted more legroom because I couldn't reach the firewall with my feet and that's unusual, but they were fine. They're luxury vehicles with ad campaigns that make you feel like a big tough guy for driving one. Mister Speaker has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Feb 6, 2023 18:54
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Lol yeah, my dad's quad cab has roomier rear seats than my own SUV. At least he gets some real use out of it, but he also just likes driving out regularly.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:08
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Mister Speaker posted:They're also not even trying to hide the fact that they aren't utility vehicles anymore. "Redneck limousines." You can option out an F-150 to over $100,000 these days.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:19
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I have a beaten up 2007 ranger that I use as a utility truck and I have loaned it a few times to friends who have access 202x megatrucks. Whether it's bed size, or they don't want to put dirt/wood in the back, or to take it to the dump.... lol Oh also my dad has a 199x GMC pickup and one of his friends has a 2022 Jeep Gladiator and he borrows my dad's truck all of the time, too - in that case the excuse is "I need to haul firewood and I don't want to break the decorative LEDs in the Gladiator's bed." 
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Sagebrush posted:"Redneck limousines." You can option out an F-150 to over $100,000 these days. Must be all that MILITARY-GRADE ALUMINUM
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Feb 6, 2023 19:26
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The other day, I was driving at night and got mad that someone had their high-beams on in traffic. . . but when they pulled up next to me, I could see they were a huge pickup truck, and saw their headlights shining on the car in front of them, and I realized that they were actually low-beams, but the headlights themselves were almost as high up as the roof of my car, capable of blinding me even at low-beam.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:33
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CommonShore posted:I have a beaten up 2007 ranger that I use as a utility truck and I have loaned it a few times to friends who have access 202x megatrucks. Whether it's bed size, or they don't want to put dirt/wood in the back, or to take it to the dump.... lol Given how many times at work a customer loses their absolute poo poo because their rhino lining got scratched it's more likely not wanting to mess up their shiny toys.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:37
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"Pavement Princess" is the term for those kind of trucks.
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I cannot begin to imagine driving anything bigger than a medium sized hatchback. I get that the US is apparently built for boat sized trucks everywhere but where I live you wouldn't be able to drive it anywhere because it wouldn't fit on the roads.
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Cernunnos posted:"Pavement Princess" is the term for those kind of trucks. I thought those were trucks that would receive oral but never reciprocate
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Cernunnos posted:"Pavement Princess" is the term for those kind of trucks. I've also heard "air hauler" because that's the only load they ever carry.
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Feb 7, 2023 01:52
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Bro dozer's another good one
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Must be all that MILITARY-GRADE ALUMINUM Oh no, I think you'll find the F-150 is made of, woke, wussy aluminum, and you'll need to find a Chevy made out of SUBMARINE GRADE STEEL if you want a real truck. https://youtu.be/7X8EEn8EStM
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Feb 7, 2023 02:20
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What's great is that "military grade" is not in fact a good thing, except it's probably not military grade anyway because it isn't nearly carcinogenic enough. If resting my hand on the hood doesn't cause infertility and heavy metal poisoning, no branch of the military will ever want anything to do with it.
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Feb 7, 2023 03:43
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"military grade" means that it's hard for a bored 18 year old private to destroy.
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ultrafilter posted:"military grade" means that it's hard for a bored 18 year old private to destroy. Not impossible, mind you.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Not impossible, mind you. Well yeah, they are often equipped with military grade tools too, so it becomes a unstoppable force vs unmovable object scenario.
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DontMockMySmock posted:The other day, I was driving at night and got mad that someone had their high-beams on in traffic. . . but when they pulled up next to me, I could see they were a huge pickup truck, and saw their headlights shining on the car in front of them, and I realized that they were actually low-beams, but the headlights themselves were almost as high up as the roof of my car, capable of blinding me even at low-beam. Yea this is a real problem all the time now. I drive a Forester, so not a low sitting car, and I still get blinded by people’s low beams. Either it’s super tall cars, or people just don’t know how to aim their headlights.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea this is a real problem all the time now. I drive a Forester, so not a low sitting car, and I still get blinded by people’s low beams. Either it’s super tall cars, or people just don’t know how to aim their headlights. And then you get people like my coworker whose boyfriend bought her new, brighter blue headlights for Christmas, installed them himself, and intentionally angled them up "because she can't see well at night and it helps her". On an SUV. I hate both of them.
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Feb 7, 2023 14:44
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SkyeAuroline posted:And then you get people like my coworker whose boyfriend bought her new, brighter blue headlights for Christmas, installed them himself, and intentionally angled them up "because she can't see well at night and it helps her". On an SUV. I thought I didn't like the death penalty
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Our friend was dating a guy who bought a giant lifted pickup and at first she was concerned that he got it to impress women but invariably he only gets approached by 40-something dads who want to congratulate him for it.
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Feb 7, 2023 14:55
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SkyeAuroline posted:And then you get people like my coworker whose boyfriend bought her new, brighter blue headlights for Christmas, installed them himself, and intentionally angled them up "because she can't see well at night and it helps her". On an SUV. Those will not pass safety inspection, I guess, assuming she lives in one of the states who have that. Which seems pretty unlikely, now that I googled that.
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Feb 7, 2023 15:17
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Those will not pass safety inspection, I guess, assuming she lives in one of the states who have that. Which seems pretty unlikely, now that I googled that. No mandatory inspections besides emissions here.
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Feb 7, 2023 15:21
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yea this is a real problem all the time now. I drive a Forester, so not a low sitting car, and I still get blinded by people’s low beams. Either it’s super tall cars, or people just don’t know how to aim their headlights. There's a website called carsized that compares cars side by side to show the differences. It doesn't have the current 3/4 ton GMs, but i'm sure their headlights are higher than the roof of my car. https://www.carsized.com/en/  
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Powershift posted:There's a website called carsized that compares cars side by side to show the differences. It doesn't have the current 3/4 ton GMs, but i'm sure their headlights are higher than the roof of my car. that's a cool website
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Powershift posted:There's a website called carsized that compares cars side by side to show the differences. It doesn't have the current 3/4 ton GMs, but i'm sure their headlights are higher than the roof of my car.  
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Feb 7, 2023 16:15
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you/the guy she told you not to worry about
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Feb 7, 2023 16:27
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Genuinely looks like someone set the scale wrong in a video game.
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Dear god. I've never seen an F150 in real life, or anything really like it, but using that comparison site I'm glad I don't have to share the road with cars like that.
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Yeah my car is the same length as the cab on the f150 and as high as the top of the bed lol. And yet half of it is still storage, you put the back seats down and you can get loads in it.
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I've gotten a lot of loads in once I take down the back seats. Big help when your mom's visiting. NHTSA rules mean out of the factory the headlights should be angled below the eyeline of a normal person in a normal car. People in big dumb cars then get the suspension lifted, install aftermarket headlights and angle them upwards or other dumb poo poo that is generally ignored by inspections or traffic cops unless you're a minority.
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