For anyone interested: there’s a new community for small trucks !keitrucks@lemm.ee
Well lookit that, I am interested! Thanks.
If only we could import the modern ones to the US!
The TELO Truck looks promising, I just wish any of the people showcasing it asked the CEO about the data it collects and their privacy policy.
I’ve never seen something as big as the one on the left, in my entire life. Probably because I haven’t been to the US in a long ass time?
This isn’t from the US either
Sorry about your massive penis.
Nothing to apologize for
In the future, cars will be so big that we will need a second, smaller car to drive us to the driver’s seat.
Everyone should get a Honda Element.
Mammoth tank vs medium tank
Fuck people who buy those big beasts, then can’t handle them for shit, and try to park as close to the front door as possible, fucki ng up parking for every other vehicle. Never even trying to park straight…ungh.
For the 3 days out of the year they might actually need such a massive beast they can rent a truck. I remember when I was car shopping and told a “car guy” at work I was looking at a Subaru he got all worked up. He tried to talk me into buying a massive SUV or pickup because they were more macho or some shit.
Emotional Support Vehicle
Every trip in a truck with an empty bed is a waste. Tooling around with stuff in the bed without the intent to deliver/use it at your destination is even worse.
Yet that describes 99.99999% of all pickup truck use in America. Just a huge ass waste of gas and space in parking lots.
Trucks are expensive too! If I were a scam artist I would definitely be targeting people driving shiny pickup trucks with empty beds. Because they definitely aren’t practical or realistic people.
Wait: Maybe that’s how MAGA started? 🤔
That’s how you know it’s all for show. People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too. “Oh well I’m glad I have it for towing and moving”. Bull. How often do you tow really? And even then I’d expect it to sit at home most of the time. Moving? Once a year. Rent a truck. I go to home Depot and rent theirs when I need it.
Buying a truck like that shows you are way too worried about what people think of you, you have to feel “big”, which usually means you’re a small man, and probably bad with money.
People casually forget you can rent trucks for 20 dollars a day too.
Rented a big truck for my move. It was a bitch to drive, cost me 75bucks for 2 hrs (it has the 29.99 in-town advertising plastered on the side) and didn’t fit more shit than a rental van of the same price.
Honestly vans are so much better to move with. Can move so much more, and don’t have to worry about the rain.
I haul shit home two or three times a week, nothing to do with work.
Hell, today picked up a nice mower (free) to fix to fix and use or sell. Also found a cool wooden chair my wife likes for her campsite.
Hauled cull wood from the store to my camp for building stuff last Saturday. Had it not been raining, I was going to take my kayak or canoe to the water today.
You don’t know me or how I live. Could you be any more judgey?
I just looked up the dimensions of that thing and it has 10cm (3inch) shorter bed than mine. How you even manage to pull that off with a truck that big is beyond me.
These brodozers aren’t used for anything useful. I like having 4’ between the wheelwells and a box long enough to get a full toolbox across the front of the box and still get a 1000L fertilizer tote in it. And low enough that I can climb in the box without a ladder.
Nice. I’m planning to get a compact pickup soon. The prices are starting to get really steep where I live. It’s like $4000+ for a 25 year old truck with 180,000 miles on it.
It’s like $4000+ for a 25 year old truck with 180,000 miles on it.
And even worse if you’re picky about features, like a manual transmission or four wheel drive.
Those were the requirements I had on top of a black color.
we have reached a time when the normal size vehicle is called a compact
Everything has gone the way of the fast-food soft drink size.
It’s so stupid, if you actually need a small truck your options are to buy used basically.
We just need a couple small (easy to navigate in cities, good on gas) 4wd trucks on the market. You’re basically stuck in Ford Transitsright now, which they’ve just stopped making, or buying 20yr old Mazdas and Rangers. Or being forced into the same F150s every other fleet operator has. I know the market for these vehicles exists (though demand is low) why does no manufacturer try to fill it?
They are starting to at least make some more reasonable vehicles. Not exactly small but not the oversized monsters.
Ford Maverick, Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, etc.
Honestly if the towing capacity was more I would have gotten the Maverick instead of the F150 for work. Sadly it can only haul 7,000lbs and I haul around a 10,000 GVW trailer all the time. The F150 in got can haul 13K.
Actually small trucks stopped being made in the early 2000s. Mid size, which has also been growing for several years, is the smallest kind that got made after the EPA regulations changed.
People like to blame truck owners for their bigass vehicles, but I think they’re only half responsible, with the other half being that actually small trucks just don’t really exist anymore.
My grandfather drove around a beat up Datsun pickup, smaller than most sedans these days. But it did the job for what he used it for, and ran forever. I think I’ve seen less than five on the road in the decades since. They seem out of place in today’s SUV/huge truck world.
I think 70s-80s small pickups are going to become collectables in the future.
I cant actually tell what you drive, it’s hidden behind that douchemobile in front.
Nissan Navara King Cab D40. In the US these are called Frontier.
I ‘enhanced’ and it seems to be a Nissan, aka ‘pickup-mobile’ for the chicks…
Put a Ford Focus behind it to show what people actually need.
Too bad the gov blocks smaller pickups from being imported. Practical sized vehicles.
Shouldn’t generalize like that. People with a legitimate need to space for hauling cargo exists.
Agreed but considering how bed sizes haven’t changed but the rest of the trucks tripled in size his point isn’t too far off the mark
So that people refocus their goals? fingerguns
Ford Ranger 2004 vs 2024 is like Mario before and after mushroom.
Frontiers are awesome little (relatively) work trucks. I don’t ever need to haul people so I ripped out the rear seats and installed shelving for anything I need to keep secure and dry. Big enough bed to throw nasty/oily parts. And a good enough towing capacity for most rental equipment like bobcats and lifts. Basically a half van.
Frontier is exactly as much truck as most truck owners actually need. I love it. I wish it was more fuel efficient but it’s a mild, modest, effective vehicle and i have not yet run into a situation it couldn’t deal with. Wonderful purchase. It turns like a boat but that’s a decent trade off to avoid the Toyota Tax on the Tacoma.
This is actually a Navara, which is the European equivalent of the Frontier. As far as I know, it’s otherwise the same vehicle, but Frontiers usually come with a 6-cylinder petrol engine, whereas this one has a 4-cylinder turbo diesel. Mine originally only had two seats to begin with, since I preferred the longer bed instead. Ironically, the bed on this monstrosity didn’t seem any bigger than the one on mine.
Yeah, they’re pretty close to the same truck. I would have loved the diesel option, but we’re deathly afraid of small displacement diesels in the US.
I remember a time when that Frontier was considered a big truck, especially compared to Rangers and Tacomas.
Now the Rangers and Tacomas are almost as big as the Dodge in this…
ETA: Just noticed you’re in Europe. Sorry that 'murican fattism has reached you, I didn’t know these compensators existed across the pond.
Sorry that 'murican fattism has reached you
I don’t mind. I’m a car guy myself, and I like them in all shapes and sizes. I’d probably drive one too if I lived in the US, but over here they’re just way too big and impractical not to mention they stick out in traffic like a sore thumb and, quite frankly, make you look kind of like a douche.
It does make you a cunt by definition, since your modern stupid bright LED headlights shine STRAIGHT into the eyes and/or rear view mirror of everyone else.
They’re H4 halogens and I can assure you they’re not blinding anyone thru those fogged up headlight lenses.
Headlights are literally placed at exact height of a rear view mirror and eye height of many cars. Even incandescent will blind.
You’re talking about the Dodge? In that case you’re correct.
They’re way too big here too we’re just replacing infrastructure to satisfy thousands of people’s penis envy instead of telling people no.
One for hauling, towing, driving around offroad and onroad and basically doing everything in and the other for taking it to american car meets.
I did the same when a coworker showed up with an F350 crew cab 6.5ft bed. Lifted, offroad lights, cb antenna, diesel (which is the HD option in the US). He lives in the suburbs and pays laborers for everything. So I plopped my dutiful little Mazda B2300 next to it (Ranger) that regularly hauls a little bit of wood.
Guaranteed he bitches about gas/diesel prices too.
He didn’t buy it for MPGs, he bought it to complain about $/gals
I don’t understand I maxed out my credit to buy this thing, drive and look like a douchebag and girls STILL avoid me?!?
So I plopped my dutiful little Mazda B2300 next to it (Ranger) that regularly hauls a little bit of wood.
'96 Ranger 2.3L here. My truck has the same engine as the Ford Pinto and that’s the way I likes it!
