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Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« on: August 03, 2020, 01:51:11 PM »
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Pickup Trucks Are Getting Huge. Got a Problem With That?

 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pickup-trucks-are-getting-huge-got-a-problem-with-that-11596254412

A FEW MONTHS ago, on an ordinary day in an unremarkable Costco parking lot, I was nearly squashed by an unusually large pickup. Thank God I was wearing a mask. As that chrome grille closed on me like a man-eating Norelco shaver, time slowed. It seemed I was watching myself from afar, being nimble for a man my age, darting from the path of a towering, limousine-black pickup with temporary plates, whose driver barely checked his pace. Jerk.

What the hell was that thing? A 2020 GMC Sierra HD Denali? It was huge! The domed hood was at forehead level. The paramedics would have had to extract me from the grille with a spray hose, like Randall Jarrell’s ball-turret gunner. He didn’t even see me.

Later, returning to my car, I noticed something: The parking lot was dotted with similarly enormous luxury pickups—many new, many taking up two spaces: Ram, Ford, Chevy, GMC. They stood out like Percherons in a herd of Shetland ponies. What is going on here? When did pickups get so big? And why are XL-sized pickups so big now?

I know. Pickup trucks at Costco. Film at 11. Except that in April, U.S. sales of pickups surpassed automobiles for the first time ever—about 112 years, give or take. Trucks and truck-based sport-utilities now account for roughly 70% of new vehicles sold in the U.S.

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OK so this thread is the usual hate big trucks,  gas guzzlers, small penis etc etc.....



but the reason I brought this one over is right HERE:

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92. Yes, for such an impoverished county as my home county in NC,

there sure are a lot of ginormous Humvees on the road. I see far too many of them for this to be such an impoverished area. It makes no sense. Where are they getting the money for Humvees?


Hey DUmmy....
This is how we feel when we call out the 1200 iPhone, or the BMW, or fancy shoes or whatever other high end stuff in "poor minority neighborhoods" or at the grocery store then whip out the EBT Card...

DO YOU GET IT NOW?
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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2020, 02:09:11 PM »
Quote from: Kc25 on August 03, 2020, 01:51:11 PM
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213840485

Hey DUmmy....
This is how we feel when we call out the 1200 iPhone, or the BMW, or fancy shoes or whatever other high end stuff in "poor minority neighborhoods" or at the grocery store then whip out the EBT Card...

DO YOU GET IT NOW?


Boy that ain't no lie.  The DUmmies have never acknowledged just how many billions a year are bilked from the tax payers of this country.  Story after story comes out and their response is always the same "yeah, but that's nothing compared to the corporate welfare going on in this country!!!"

Talk about "whataboutism".

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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2020, 02:16:57 PM »
1. What I drive - whether a Smart Car rolling coffin or a street-legal monster truck - is none of any DU-Karen's damn business.

2. Does DU-Moron Jamastiene know that the last Hummer (civilian version of the Humvee) rolled off the line over 10 years ago? So if that bogey- :bouncy: -tale is true, those vehicles were either bought in financially less stressful times or used at a price lower than many/most new vehicles. And what those people drive is none of any DU-Moron Jamastiene's damn business.
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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2020, 02:33:54 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on August 03, 2020, 02:16:57 PM
1. What I drive - whether a Smart Car rolling coffin or a street-legal monster truck - is none of any DU-Karen's damn business.

2. Does DU-Moron Jamastiene know that the last Hummer (civilian version of the Humvee) rolled off the line over 10 years ago? So if that bogey- :bouncy: -tale is true, those vehicles were either bought in financially less stressful times or used at a price lower than many/most new vehicles. And what those people drive is none of any DU-Moron Jamastiene's damn business.

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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2020, 06:25:47 PM »
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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2020, 07:52:14 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on August 03, 2020, 06:25:47 PM
For everyone's amusement, https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/craziest-tweet-of-the-day.php .

Yeah, I gather from some Conservative stuff I follow on FB that the Left is exploring the 'Assault Truck' view of pickups.  Rush would be amused and probably take off on his SUV track.

'For God's sale, don't leave an AR15 or AK in your SUV or pickup, there's no telling what awful carnage and deviltry might ensue once you lock it up and walk out of sight...'
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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2020, 08:27:32 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on August 03, 2020, 06:25:47 PM
For everyone's amusement, https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/craziest-tweet-of-the-day.php .

That is EPIC Fail for that dude... What is his DU Name?

Hi5 for sharing that glorious twitter thread.
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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2020, 08:09:10 AM »
Yeah, wait till the dude sees Mega Truck Chainsaw Fog Lights!
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Re: Pick Up Trucks Getting Huge
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2020, 09:42:38 AM »
Quote from: SVPete on August 04, 2020, 08:09:10 AM
Yeah, wait till the dude sees Mega Truck Chainsaw Fog Lights!

or the deadly spiked lugnuts that prey on pirus' and other hybrids favored by liberals
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