This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn’t fit in many places around here it’s owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.
Follow up: We had PBOT patrolling the neighborhood today for the first time ever. This block, specifically. I have to assume that one of you called them up and told them about this truck. Well guess what? A few dozen cars on this block got ticketed for things like parking contraflow, expired registrations, unapproved window tints, etc. Literally about half the cars on this street, yellow cards on every other windshield. You know who didn’t get a ticket? The big white Denali, which was parked about 5 feet behind the stop sign this morning. Too close by law, but apparently not close enough for PBOT to issue a citation. So to whatever fucking dumbass thought that cops are the solution, you didn’t improve our safety at all and you cost my safely-parked neighbors probably around $1000 in petty citations. I said multiple times in this thread that cops really aren’t the solution, even when they’re enforcing on your behalf they’re biased by culture. You didn’t help at all, in fact you arguably made the situation worse, and I hope you call you council members / PBOT office and request local restrictions on oversized vehicles or a road diet re-design of your street as penance.
I work on a building sites here in Ireland,can someone tell me why use this? It’s like a van but less good in every way
I work in construction and pickup trucks definitely have their place. This however is not a usable truck . It’s a medical treatment for small dick syndrome.
Aye see working, and you’ve to load 5 tonnes of stones,a 4 foot clearance is not your friend
Very tl;dr: In the 70s, the was a gas shortage, so Congress passed minimum mpg laws, but exempted trucks, to not kill small business. Manufacturers lobbied Congress to expand the definition of “trucks,” and now you see these giant troop carriers everywhere.
I’ve heard that insurance on a truck used to be 1/2 the price of that for a car too… cannot verify the validity surrounding that though.
You are correct. Times have changed unfortunately.
The 70s? You guys know it’s been 50 years since carter right
This lets people know you have a penis and that’s very very important.
*small penis
Unless it has that idiotic hers not his sticker on it and a pink yeti sticker.
I guess then it let’s them know you have a critical case of Freudian penis envy and that’s very, very important?
You should see some of the vans we have
Anyone with a raptor in this country is a bellend.
The Hilux was only ever a boss mans car, the sites were littered with focuses and octavias for the longest time. There is a plant hire lad near me that uses an 07 Mondeo to put the trailer.
Pickups are tradie fashion statements.
Pick ups are for trades who don’t work. Ice seem many old school hilux because they don’t brake,but even then,they’re not the everyday. Hilux is for crossing fields. Vans are for working.
Yea like most of workers I know drive hatchback,nippy wee fuckers for getting off site asap
I’m not going to pretend I know better than the people who are buying them if they offer any real utility, but it’s not like they’re new. The Hilux has been around donkey’s years. It’s only the last couple of years they’ve started to catch on big-time. I don’t understand what’s changed that’s pushed a lot of lads away from the likes of a Transit into a Ford Ranger.
Although I’m sure there were plenty of people driving Land Cruisers before who are in Rangers now, and are carrying precisely the same amount of absolutely fuck all in them.
It’s huge tires and clearance are an advantage in a country with crumbling infrastructure.
Now that makes sense but also,most good vans can have mad clearance
Even most sedans and hatchbacks can be lifted a few inches which is enough to clear bad dirt or gravel roads.
Fucking A
I mean, not practically. Maybe if you routinely need to go to industrial plant construction sites for the early parts of construction before they’ve done things like generally flatten the area and cut something resembling a road. But even then it seems like overkill.