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Truck bloat is killing us, new crash data reveals (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by brihuang95@sopuli.xyz to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As someone who uses their truck as it's intended I can say your absolutely correct. I get comments from other truck drivers when they see the dings and scratches and they'll be laughing while I'm looking at their spotless $80,000 truck that the heaviest thing they haul is a gallon of milk. I hope they downsize these trucks some day soon because when mine goes I don't want a physically bigger one. These trucks also take up 4 spots everywhere they go for parking.

[–] UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've had a 95 V8 f150 and a 94 4cyl ranger that I consider to be about the perfect expression of the two most useful trucks ever made. There just isn't anything like them anymore.