Now They Are Coming For Trucks...

[Brambo]

Coming to a neighborhood near you, fur lined condoms

 

[dieselrealtor]

Over the past few years, I have noticed an increasing number of pedestrians that don't even look before walking in front of traffic. When I was a kid, it was pounded into me to look both ways & always wait for a safe crossing.

 

[patience0830]

My post was misunderstood, I was saying folks were spending $35K-$50K for the refurb. Last I knew the used were typically in the $20K range but not surprised they would go up if in great shape. Some of the refurb shops will take a V10 model and put a new diesel in it. Some also update the instruments, controls, and entertainment to current standards.

Found a company yesterday that will sell you a refurbished Toyota Land Cruiser for $248,000 . 6.2L chevy motor. Just amazing.

 

[ditcherman]

Found a company yesterday that will sell you a refurbished Toyota Land Cruiser for $248,000 . 6.2L chevy motor. Just amazing.

Well, now you’re talking about cults. That’s different.
It’s a disease, it can’t be helped, I tell you.
I’ll just add, that’s their asking price. Go buy a slightly rusty barn find and try to sell it, don’t ask me how I know.

 

[Tyler-The-Piker]

I read about half of it before I had to stop, the stupid hurt too much.

Here is some of the wording:

Styling trends are almost as alarming. Pickup truck front ends have warped into scowling brick walls, billboards for outwardly directed hostility. “The goal of modern truck grilles,” wrote Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky in 2018, “seems to be… about creating a massive, brutal face of rage and intimidation.”

One key driver of pickup growth relates to how they are now being used. If you overlook their gleefully violent styling and garage-unfriendly footprint, these vehicles have become more practical as family vehicles.

In 2020, 85% of pickup trucks sold had “crew cabs” or “extended crew cabs” or one of a handful of other tough-guy euphemisms with two sets of seats for five people — most with four doors.

Personal vehicles are not merely functional appliances: They are used as refuges, fortresses and private enclaves, and serve as important signifiers of class and gender identity, as Sovacool explored in a 2018 study.

To Albert, the booming appeal of bigger and more brutish trucks reflects “a crisis of masculinity,” he says. “Nothing could be more emasculating than driving a minivan. So you want the vehicle that’s going to maintain your performative masculinity.”

And of course, because Trump:'

The fact that supersized pickup trucks were often deployed as political props (and weapons) during the Trump era did not escape the notice of scholars like Cara Daggett, a professor of political science at Virginia Tech. In a widely shared 2018 journal article, Daggett coined the term “petro-masculinity” to describe flamboyant expressions of fossil fuel use by men (and some women as well, but mostly men) as a reaction against social progress. To these drivers, “the affront of global warming or environmental regulations appear as insurgents on par with the dangers posed by feminists and queer movements seeking to leach energy and power from the state/traditional family,” she wrote.

And that's where I had to stop. What utter ********.

If I didn't see "Bloomberg" then I would've suspected this to be from the Onion or Babylon Bee

 

[actaeon277]

Over the past few years, I have noticed an increasing number of pedestrians that don't even look before walking in front of traffic. When I was a kid, it was pounded into me to look both ways & always wait for a safe crossing.

That and walking in the middle of the street at night, in dark clothes.

 

[MCgrease08]

Well, now you’re talking about cults. That’s different.
It’s a disease, it can’t be helped, I tell you.
I’ll just add, that’s their asking price. Go buy a slightly rusty barn find and try to sell it, don’t ask me how I know.

Just a reminder that I want right of first refusal if you ever decide to sell your Gen 3 4Runner.

 

[ditcherman]

Just a reminder that I want right of first refusal if you ever decide to sell your Gen 3 4Runner.

Sold. Come and get it. Make me an offer, after you drive it. Might be a trans problem, not sure.

ETA am I in the classifieds?

 

[ditcherman]

Over the past few years, I have noticed an increasing number of pedestrians that don't even look before walking in front of traffic. When I was a kid, it was pounded into me to look both ways & always wait for a safe crossing.

It was me too, and I obeyed until I spent a year at Purdue. That’s where a farm boy learned how to cross the street.
They’ll stop.

 

[Cameramonkey]

its like the pedestrians have taken the "Pedestrians have the right of way" to heart and are exercising that right... to their detriment. Granted I honor that, especially in parking lots, but the number of people who walk where they want to walk regardless of traffic without considering that those that must yield to you maybe havent SEEN you yet is astounding.

 

[actaeon277]

There's a difference between "right of way" and "questioning physics"

 

[Tombs]

They're coming for more than just trucks, now

Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act (RPM Act)

SEMA STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF THE RECOGNIZING THE PROTECTION OF MOTORSPORTS (RPM) ACT DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Dec. 22, 2022) – SEMA and PRI must share that despite strong Congressional backing and extraordinary support from the racing community, the 2021-2022 Congressional session is ending...

www.sema.org

Say bye bye to any modified cars.

 

[Cameramonkey]

They're coming for more than just trucks, now

Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act (RPM Act)

SEMA STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF THE RECOGNIZING THE PROTECTION OF MOTORSPORTS (RPM) ACT DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Dec. 22, 2022) – SEMA and PRI must share that despite strong Congressional backing and extraordinary support from the racing community, the 2021-2022 Congressional session is ending...

www.sema.org

Say bye bye to any modified cars.

After that, Sports cars are next. They are the assault rifle of the auto world. Nobody needs that much speed.

 

[wethepeople]

All this time I thought I purchased my 08 and 2020 black HD3500 crew cab long bed duramax trucks because I needed them to pull and haul. Never knew it was because of my toxic masculinity.

 

[Leadeye]

They're coming for more than just trucks, now

Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act (RPM Act)

SEMA STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF THE RECOGNIZING THE PROTECTION OF MOTORSPORTS (RPM) ACT DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Dec. 22, 2022) – SEMA and PRI must share that despite strong Congressional backing and extraordinary support from the racing community, the 2021-2022 Congressional session is ending...

www.sema.org

Say bye bye to any modified cars.

The Charger gets 8 MPG on premium and I'm pretty sure the tail pipe emissions would not pass scrutiny. Still fun to drive, hope the government fun police never ban them.

 

[Ingomike]

Created a new thread for the question...

 

[defaultdotxbe]

I remember about a year ago this story was making the rounds, guess they are hoping get more traction this time

 

[Wstar425]

Nobody made it to the very end of the article?

“Fossil fuels are violent”

Yeah, the descriptors were a thing of beauty. I’m surprised that grill didn’t reach out and grab her kid and swallow him whole! That was some very poor parenting there.

You only have to enter your email address to read, no money. Even that may not be wise....

 

[1nderbeard]

Screw these guys. It's already just about impossible to find a v8 pickup now. Tundra I think is the only standard v8 truck now, and I hear 2022 will be v6.

Guess I need to trade up now so I'll have one for the next 15 years.

 

[1nderbeard]

There's a difference between "right of way" and "questioning physics"

You may have the right of way, but that will look funny engraved on your tombstone.