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POV , your secretary bought a new car for her daily commute to the grocery stroad. (lemmy.ca)
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The road SUV armement race reach its peak . This is the basic minimum car size you will need to be safe on the 12 lanes groceries stroad.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children) 
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
[Krusty:] Hey Hey
The Federal Highway commission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
Drive Canyonero!
Woah Canyonero!
Woah!
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did not expect poetry

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

In case you don't know, it's from the Simpsons

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

*The Federal Highway Commission has ruled the Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I fucking love stroads so goddamn much I love waiting 5 minutes in the suicide lane to make a left while attempting to dodge cars going 20 over the 50mph speed limit

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1/2 a mile to the gallon and $600 to fill up. Produces as much C02 as Luxembourg. New EV version out next year!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

no but really tho, is it legal to drive this on public roads?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably. You'd be amazed at what someone with a regular license is allowed to drive. Such as the International CXT. Basically made to be just under specs that require a CDL. (To my knowledge it is mostly a weight thing. Like 26000 pounds and CDL is needed. 25999 pounds? you're fine without.)

The laws are pretty arbitrary and leave a lot to be desired. Which is also why you see some sketchy driving by people driving the large U-Haul box trucks and other moving rental companies. Same with trailers/campers. Any random can hook up an oversized/improperly loaded trailer to their little Ford escape and drive about.

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

Want a boat of any size? No license needed at all!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Ford builds them as work trucks. Like you said, the biggest thing you can buy without needing an upgraded license.

The triple cab, pickup style box, and lift kit are all aftermarket. Straight from Ford it's at most a king cab with a frame rail back. Then you're supposed to put on some kind of working back (toolbox, dump truck, lift arm). That's the kind of thing you see in official marketing images.

I used to work for a company that built garbage compactor units and put them on the back of trucks like these. The main selling point was that you only need a regular license and you can fit into narrower spaces than a full size garbage truck.

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

If it is it’s close. Anything over 26,000 lbs is automatically CDL which this looks close to.

Further anything over 9ft wide or 13’6” tall is automatically an oversized load. Oversized load drivers are required to have a permit for every trip and the requirements to get hired to get those permits are pretty high. No history of drug or alcohol addiction (even if recovered) 20/40 vision with a 70° field of view in both eyes. As well as being experienced in driving for several years at least already. The weight is iffy. But this looks pretty wide. I’m fairly certain either the height or weight puts this into oversized load territory.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

POV: you see a European with their new American SUV

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I have a secretary?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still not high enough to just drive over the other cars.. just stupidly big without achieving anything :P

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? This car can trample pedestrians without the passengers noticing. That's what it was made for.

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

I meant I could see the appeal of a car big enough to just drive over a jam of small cars. But I don't really mean it, of course. Hope the one shown is just some stupid prototype that will never be mass produced.

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

You could house a family in that.

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

Is it electric? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's no car. That's a tank for people with fragile egos.

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

Yer paying your secretary a pretty penny if she can afford that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Toad 🐸🐊