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I once fit an IKEA mattress, bed frame, and slats in the back of my hatchback, with enough room leftover to make a grocery run.
I've done that too back when I lived in the city, with the bed boxes all the way up into the front of the car, interfering with my stick shift if I hit a bump or slammed on the brakes, and just generally being unsafe. My point isn't that it's impossible to buy things at IKEA without a giant truck, my point is if you own a giant truck, for work or because you DIY constantly or own a boat or RV...this is literally the exact situation it's built for. You CAN handle the situation other ways, but why would you if you already own a truck?
I hate giant fuck off oversized trucks as much as the next guy, and if this was sitting in someone's driveway as their only car, with nothing to haul, a clean bed, and you only see them take it to the grocery store... Then yeah let's all shit on them together. But everyone is so carried away with hate they're dunking on a guy doing one of the best use cases for this truck and actually being polite about it!
Yeah I was mostly just poking a bit of fun lol. I don't really agree with the sentiment that transporting flatpack furniture is the exact scenario for a 22 ft. long vehicle though. Like, IKEA furniture is explicitly designed to be light, compact, and easy to transport so that you don't need a large vehicle to haul it. That being said, bringing your giant pickup truck to transport IKEA furniture is certainly a better use for it than a daily single-passenger commute.
And that's the most anyone could ever need to haul at once from Ikea I guess?
Why at once?
Why not? That's the reason you get a 22 foot truck, because you need to haul a lot of things at once. Maybe you are furnishing your entire house, maybe one of 45000 other possible legitimate reasons to haul a lot of things. I don't own a truck, and I usually assume anyone driving one of these huge ones is a maga these days because around here that's what they mostly are.
But it's a little nuts how many people think that because they've never had the need to haul more things than will fit in a sedan or small hatchback or shortbed pickup, no one else does either.
I too have filled a hatch back with Ikea stuff and panicked the whole time thinking it wouldn't all fit and I'd have to return something. If I had a truck I would've brought it.