Well, that guy is clearly a massive prick, but let's also talk about how fucking ugly that truck is. I don't know when everyone decided that land yacht pickup trucks were the bees knees, but they're not. They're just dumb and so. goddamn. ugly.
For real dude, there's no decent sized mid sized pickups anymore. I drove my '99 dodge Dakota forever and loved the size! It even had a V8 compared to most of the newer land yachts with 4 bangers and v6s.
I don't need a block on wheels, I just need a smaller pickup because I camp and haul shit enough to justify needing one vs a car or suv.
So, I don't know if it's still an issue but I know the whole land yacht thing started because of emissions standards. The US used to (they might still) set emissions standards based on wheel base rather than vehicle type. The larger the wheel base the looser the emissions standards. The thought was that vehicles that needed a larger wheelbase like large work trucks would always have higher emissions so they wanted to take that into account. But what actually happened is manufacturers just started making larger and larger vehicles to take advantage of the more lax emissions standards.
I think the wheelbase based emissions standards thing has been fixed now, but I don't know where I heard that so it might even still be a thing.
I had a '93 F150 for a few years. It was a v8 5.8L with an extended bed. Until... I let my friend borrow it and he... redlined it for several miles in first gear, (accidentally put it in 1st gear instead of into drive, and didn't noticed the extremely loud engine and the fact that he couldn't go over 20mph... yes, he is that stupid lmao) until it began smoking and he pulled it into a random driveway. And then as if that weren't bad enough, the genius homeowner popped the hood and hosed down the engine which, if you know anything about cars or metal, was the dumbest thing he could've done. Cracked up the whole thing. 😭
But that thing was a fucking beast man. These new trucks can't even fit a fucking 2x4 or a sheet of OSB in the bed. They are useless.
That's why I got the Honda Ridgeline. It is basically a Honda Pilot with a bed. Small by truck standards but is great for someone that just needs to haul stuff in the suburbs and will never take it off-road. I don't get all the people around here that think they need a lifted full sized truck to drive to work on city streets everyday.
I drove an '04 Dakota for years (last year of that body style before they started making them bigger). Loved that truck, perfect size for camping or hauling band equipment.
Sucks that the mid-sized trucks now are bigger that the full-sized trucks from back then.
Safety regulations has a lot to do with it too. They have to squeeze in airbags and all the safety tech which would leave no room to sit in that older Dakota.
Just check the bed. If there’s a liner, chances are the truck is needed. If it’s clean, it’s a vanity truck.
I own a 350 and am very aware of just how big this truck is. But I do need the pulling power for work related things. I’ve also used it to help people that have broken down.
I drive 3/4 or one ton trucks for work. They suck to drive. You feel every bump, they sway on corners or with wind, and parking is a nightmare. I have no idea why somebody would drive them around for vanity.
I piss off my teenage son all the time using the outlander sport I bought for him. For driving around town it's awesome.
My DMax is a pretty truck but the beat to crap box, without bedliner, is under a tonneau cover so you can't see it. Another thing you can do is check the receiver hitch, if it's scratched / rusty inside then you know its being used to tow something. 🙂
That would be the US EPA and whomever influenced them in the Carter administration to classify trucks as regulated differently than other passenger vehicles. It unironically financially encourages SUVs over vans and bigger bodied trucks over smaller ones.
It's killed the work truck, the small truck, and literal pedestrians.
Their intentions were fine at the time and it has resulted in average miles per gallon within their class going way up but it needs to be amended. The shifting of sales eats into any fuel efficiency gains. Regulate them the same as any passenger vehicle and give me my utility back.
In the old days, a friend of mine would carry some paper(?) stickers(?) (labels?) that said something like "I park like an asshole" and superglue it to one of the windows of someone parked like this.
If you wanted to be nicer, you could get some proper pre-printed stickers (most online print/sticker shops should have them) and place them. Wouldn't cause any damage but would maybe make them think about it a little bit.
I also saw a post recently where someone replaced all the tire valve caps with bright orange or pink little dick shaped caps. This would cause more inconvenience and embarrassment, but not be damaging or dangerous.
I knew a guy that had a roll of custom-printed "I park like a jackass" stickers. They weren't very large -- I think they were originaly labels for folders or something.
But they were on tamper-proof stickers, the kind that were metalic and broke into a bunch of tiny pieces when you tried to peel them off.
He'd slap two or three of them on the driver's side windshield and window out of the main line of sight, but you couldn't miss them when driving.
They're a pain in the ass to get off. I know, because he put one on my car that said, "I lick sweaty ballsacks".
Holy shit I just found penis tire caps on AliExpress, definitely buying some lol
Edit: I realized I don’t have the courage to actually do this to someone in public and risk getting caught, so I didn’t end up buying any, but they are readily available from your preferred discount app if anyone else wants to
Haha, nice! Here, I found the post, in the old "R" site. I try to avoid posting stuff from there, but this is in the interest of science: https://i.redd.it/idl8jj50fg6b1.jpg
That's what gets me on these things. If you want to be a dick and make sure your car isn't hit go park or in the boonis! Nobody goes out there, don't have to worry about carts, take as many spots as you want! Shoot for a record of you want try to get 6! But why tf are you doing it in close parking spots?
You can see on the next line over, there are a ton of empty spots right up front. This is probably some place that's not open to the public or whatever, or else they just have way more parking spots than they actually need.
I don’t actually mind this IF the person parks in the back of the lot. I get that they don’t want their precious hot wheels monster truck to get dinged, but as long as they park in the back of the lot where there’s no other cars, it’s fine. However, this person is clearly an asshole as there’s handicapped spots next to them, so they’re right up front taking spaces. It should be legal to vandalize their vehicle if a person does this.
My move lately has been to stand their windshield wipers up. You're not doing anything criminally damaging to their vehicle, but in my experience, anyone this self-important will be really bothered by the thought of some random person putting their dirty hands on their precious baby.
EPA regulations are designed to encourage better gas mileage, but they are based on vehicle size. So instead of making more fuel efficient engines, auto makers realized they could just make bigger trucks with the same shitty engines to meet the guidelines.
A local business has any vehicle that does this towed by his cousins tow company. That company is 3 towns over about 50 miles. Guy has signs everywhere that warns anyone doing it. He still gets one or two a week.
This is when you put a small pebble under each of the tire valve caps and screw them down tight enough to depress the spring, open the valve, and let the air out all of the tires
I have a full size truck and I agree. You don't want dents. Park all the way in the back in one spot or park on the street. This person can suck a bouncy castle full of dicks.
hard to find that, but you can absolutely get a syringe full of deer piss between the window and the rubber stripping that's meant to keep the rain out of the door. doe-in-estrus urine is available at almost any outdoors shop, as hunters use it to attract bucks.
No, that's a Toyota. I think OP was trying to say that the type of dickwad who would park like that is the same kind who would ICE an EV charge station
The handles probably have no where to loop around these days. But you’d still get the same effect just surrounding it with shopping carts like right up against it. Ding city and the whole town plays along.
I park in the back during work, but I always end up with UPS and Amazon trucks parking next to me, and they leave their engine running the whole time that I'm eating lunch...
I doubt these trucks can be driven around in European or Asian roads. They seem so humongous. Even cargo vehicles which transport goods across the city are much smaller than these in India. Why are trucks so popular in the US? Does everyone haul things often? Are cargo trucks not rentable?
The US government's standards for fuel economy paradoxically push car manufacturers to make bigger vehicles. The few mid-size pickups still available are now as big as full size pickups once were.
Clearly the parking space is too small, lets petition our gouvernment to increaste them, like a football field per car, or something like that... or else please use public transportation
Are they a fire chief or something? See a firefighters emblem on the front plate. Barring an emergency still no excuse for parking like a dick though..
You see those white lines they parked over? Yeah, it would be funny if someone took some white masking tape and put it on the truck to look like they painted the parking lot lines over the truck...
Can't help but wonder how someone would react seeing that shit LOL!
It is my opinion that it should be legal to paint said stripes on someone's car if they park over the line. Should really hammer just how much of an asshole someone is if they have multitudes of stripes.
Love this kind of selfish .ssholes. Never understood also the need to drive these monstrous cars. Once oil will bounce back, we’ll see if these ´cars’ will still be out there…
I don't care if someone parks like this farther out in the parking lot. But this entitled douchenugget did it right up front, no, that's not accecptable ever. If you want extra room, park farther out and walk.
What's the principle here? If this place is a shop, I assume it's private property. Maybe this guy owns the parking lot? Let the party who's responsible for the place worry about it.
I mean. Thats likely a firefighter in some form. People are not usually just slapping that plate on for the hell of it. Also. No that comment about leaving easily was sarcasm