See, the difference between this lemmy fuckcars, and the subreddit, is that, on the subreddit, I would get plenty of people who fell for the bait completely. On this lemmy, most of the top posts are people specifically refuting the bait. Of course, this does nothing to disincentivize the behavior, and increases the engagement of the post, compared to other, better posts, but it's still nice that the userbase could recognize the problems with this rather than just kind of buying in mindlessly because it seemed to agree with their political in group.

If I had to regularly tow a midsized excavator on a large gooseneck trailer, this size of truck would be a reasonable - if moderately excessive - option.

Otherwise, outside of “let’s haul some large earthmoving equipment” use cases, it is stupid to own a truck like this.

I saw this thing on Cribs once. T-Pain had it. Fucking hood of the car was a good foot over his fucking head. It's literally a semi-trailer cab.

6'4'' don't fit in anything else

My fucking ass. I'm 6'6'' and the only vehicle I've ever not actually been able to fit in was a Jeep Wrangler.

Overcompensating for a lack of everything but money.

think about how much you hate it, then multiply that by having to live in the same country as 'em.

I have def seen this shit all over the midwest and central washington.

American here. Calm down, it's a specialized vehicle that costs more than a hundred thousand dollars with an engine designed to tow extremely heavy industrial products for non-commercial use outside of what typical truck manufacturers sell for typical industrial shipping such as semi-trucks.

No, fucker, nobody is going to buy that and drive to McDonalds, you are delusional that Cleetus can afford that thing.

This is a really braindead and disingenuous take. The F650 is a commercial vehicle. Attempting to pretend that "Americans" drive these is moronic, because the number of private citizens who drive one of these as a personal vehicle is probably in the triple digits in a country with a population of 332,000,000.

I know it's fasionable to farm for upvotes these days by blaring AMERICANS BIG TRUCKS BAD. But no one is "driving these to McD's to get a McFlurry." Very, very few people own one of these just to be "decadent."

You may as well get on your high horse about Americans driving big rigs all the time while you're at it. Because they totally do!!!!! (It's true!) Ones who are truck drivers, you know, delivering the goods you rely on every day.

On the very outside edge of the graph, there are probably a few outliers who own one of these to tow something enormous: A big horse trailer or a box trailer with their airplane in it or something. I have never seen one of these on the road that wasn't an actual commercial vehicle like a tow truck or similar.

The problem with obviously ridiculous whinging like this is that it dilutes the actual useful message, which is that America's transportation infrastructure is fucked up, and our reliance on fossil fuels (not just trucks) is Too Damn High.

Holy crap. At work I drive a Chevy 3500 hd dumptruck with a plow and that thing feels almost too big to be on the road. Ford has completely lost it making a truck twice the size.

It's a personality, "My ignorance is greater than your knowledge." and there is an entire cult around it for a long long time. The United Part of the United states is just united in landowners vs havenots. Rather be a proud moron than a 'havenot' even if you have to bend your entire greymatter in the wrong direction to do so.

But I love driving in the giant poison machine to go eat actual lard and nothing else from a cup.

Edit: do I really need to say this is a joke?

And in some states something like this can be the first car for some 16-years-old. You don't even need any special licenses to drive this monstrosity, imagine how many lives are being wasted because there is no proper regulation in place. Guys, you have to do something with it, it's not just your safety, it's the safety of everyone around you!

When you see Mad Max Scenes from the original Film of the 80s. It's so laughable. If ever some kind of civil war scenario breaks out in the Us. Nevada and Texas will host real life Mad Max with armored tank trucks guzzling 30l pro 100km build by Dodge. (I know I know, dont make me write it in gallons.)