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One of these has definitely hauled more than the other, and i guarantee you it's not the ford.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty tall. I move a lot of family members around on rare occasions. I go for week-long trips out of town in my car. I barely drive it in town (usually evenings and weekends and not even every evening or weekend). My car isn't quite that behemoth but it is large enough for what I need. I have helped with over 4 home moves in that car and even used it to transport a fridge to a civic waste site.

It does the job fine. I've never felt the need to get a pickup truck. Some people probably have genuine use cases. The majority probably don't. Those things are wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mondeo is a great family car. I have a friend where his whole family, brother, mother, dag, uncle etc. each own a mondeo and sware by it because it just the right size for a family.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It looks like a caricature. Kinda like Into the Spider-Verse's version of Kingpin in vehicle form.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a Subaru Baja owner, I'm inclined to agree. Though I did upgrade to overload springs in the rear, mostly to keep it from sagging as much when hauling heating pellets each winter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

driving something that big just seems frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Have you started noticing some cars are now the same height level of a semi truck? These people are so ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What I dislike about these threads is that it always devolves into shitting on blue collar workers. Of course pickups are useless city cars but have you all ever met somebody from a town of 1,000 people where every single person works in a blue collar trade? These things do work that you can't do in a different type of vehicle.

Threads like this are echo chambers of privilege. Maybe instead of shitting on tradespeople, shit on car and oil companies who enshittify the whole system.

Also pickups in 2023 that look like this are more powerful and more fuel efficient than more modest looking pickups from 90s or 00s. You may not like the aesthetics of it, but who fucking cares, you're not driving it, you're just the one judging someone else for having different taste.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You will probably like this Documentation about the reasons why SUVs in the usa are so popular.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

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