Same here. People erroneously associate these climate changing monstrosities with Republican-voting, rural America but I've seen these in my supposedly liberal city way too many times. The worse offenders are college frat boys with inflated egos wasting their tuition on lift kits and oversized chrome wheels. And you're right about their usage. My dad once had two pickups: an F-150 King Ranch and a Nissan Frontier basic trim. You would think that, even with the luxury features, the F-150 would do the heavy work, right? Nope. The Frontier was always doing the dirty work while the King Ranch was my dad's crown jewel (before he sold it).

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A lot of them are suburanites who think they need a giant truck for the 2-3 times a year they haul some bags of mulch or such. I remember a guy called into the NPR show "Car Talk" asking if he should buy a big pickup. They asked him why he felt he needed one and he said he occasionally had to haul some bags of stuff. They said "Save yourself a lot of money and just rent a truck for the rare times you need one and buy a practical car for the 99% of the other time."

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Here it is giant trucks or mustangs/challengers with the occasional douchebag with a "pffffttttt" exhaust tossed in. Like you said, 99% of the time they are only being used for groceries or driving the kids around. The people who actually use them for work their trucks look beaten up and are rarely this big.

At least my state finally wised up and banned front lifted trucks.