Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys serious?! Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry? Americas bloodiest wars have been fought in the middle east to secure oil, bombing nations to rubble. And all, for this bullshit? The excess, waste and decadence is mind boggling to me and people on Reddit seriously justifying this by “you know dude I’m 6,4ft. I don’t fit in any other vehicle” makes me go up the wall.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    11 months ago

    Luckily, they’re not that common.

    they’re common enough to be mass produced.

    • astraeus@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Mass produced for the commercial market. F-650s aren’t meant for Bubba to show off to his friends, they’re meant for hauling freight, being tow trucks and dump trucks.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I mean, bulldozers are mass produced too, but that doesn’t mean people are driving them around too often.

      It’s a commercial vehicle base for use with ambulances, mid size freight shipping, or heavy utility vehicles like power company repair vehicles.

      This is something like a $250,000 truck.

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      26·
      11 months ago

      Sure, but in a nation of some 333 million a lot of stupid things are common enough to be mass produced.

      They have some legitimate uses, mind, but most purchasers are just dickwaving.

      • BerührtGras@feddit.deOPEnglish
        111·
        11 months ago

        Yeah and this Is what I’m not getting. Not the existence, but normal, non commercial people buying it. The wastefullness is so insane.

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          There’s such a small number of these being purchased by non-commercial drivers that it’s insignificant

    • BerührtGras@feddit.deOPEnglish
      111·
      11 months ago

      Yeah totally. I mean EVs aren’t better right? The idea of producing a low emmissions efficient small car is not in any consumers mind. Oh people want EVs? Sure, lets give them an electric HUMMER or a cold rolled box of steel which slices pedestrians like a blade. I don’t get, that people look at this and like it.

      • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        The common thought on this, as i understand it, is twofold:

        1. Battery supply is still heavily constrained, so packs will go to the expensive larger cars first, with the lower end and smaller ones following along as the new plants come online in the next few years.
        2. the us is very large and spread out, so smaller packs are less desirable, exacerbating point 1

        Most people in the US have already purchased their last ICE vehicle, and are either going to drive it until the wheels fall off, or until the 3rd gen BEVs are out.