• cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    crew cab

    Why can’t you make a cheap EV for people who want to be able to throw a couple sheets of plywood in the back? These tiny beds are borderline useless.

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              13 days ago

              I have jokingly threatened to sneak a pair onto my partner’s truck just to see how long it takes him to figure it out. But I’m not a monster. Even as a joke. I wouldn’t put him through that.

              Also I’m terrified of retribution. If my beautiful truck were to be so sullied…

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                13 days ago

                I want to say, ‘put a 3d printed or injection molded vagina or pair of tits on the truck’, but at this point, I fear that would probably get the driver arrested for indecent exposure, violating some kind of pornography law of some kind in many US states.

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          14 days ago

          The other common term is ‘pavement princess’.

          Your 145k luxury heavy duty crewcab truck that spends most of its time sitting on the pavement in your driveway, because gas mileage is terrible, and you’re also terrified of using your truck… as a truck, ie, hauling loads, going a bit offroad or into a construction site… because that could superficially damage your princess.

          There are actually a good number of ‘car guys’ who fucking hate these things, and also even advocate for trains/public transit/bike lanes etc. … because they will actually reduce traffic, which will make driving more enjoyable overall, and also lessen the amount of people on the road who cannot afford to maintain their dangerous shitboxes, that are more likely to be in an accident because of their state of disrepair.

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      15 days ago

      The people buying these aren’t really using them as a truck. They use them to go get groceries and pick up a coffee. Idiots.

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        15 days ago

        Im uninformed about this. Why cant a truck with a unibody have a bigger bed

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          15 days ago

          you put in a bigger bed and customers will try to load it up and bend the unibody frame. you overload your ladder frame pickup and you might damage the bed or the tires but aren’t likely to render the entire vehicle unsafe.

          ladder frame is capable of supporting much more weight than any unibody due to the design that separates load bearing concerns from body concerns.

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          15 days ago

          Because a bed made of, and supported by just sheet metal can’t have the same strength as a bed that is supported by essentially 6” steel girders.