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See it is like a van, but somehow...... worse.

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[–] TheTechnician27 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are we on the verge of stretch limousine trucks which are just SUV stretch limos but with a pathetic-looking, tiny-ass vestigial bed at the rear?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Rayspekt 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's like Gilette "Engineers" adding another blade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have been so disappointed that the razor blade curve has turned out to not be true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

By that curve we should be in 5-blade times, which is correct...

[–] teft 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look at the bowing the middle. Can’t be good for the frame.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That's just Kid Rock's tour bus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That is the perfect term for all these "trucks" with short-ass beds.

Vestigial bed, lmao

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has to be a crew hauling gooseneck ready truck, for some sort of industrial crew work...

OP did it have a gooseneck hitch?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Not my picture, but no this something you see around my parts. Its normally sold to Hutterite colonies (they used to use vans) and the back generally just holds goods they buy or sell.

[–] HidingUnderHats 18 points 2 months ago
[–] TonyOstrich 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Christ, and here all I want is a small cargo van and Ford decides to discontinue selling the Transit Connect here, while in Europe they are starting to sell an electric version of the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, can't have small trucks anymore ether. But this thing is available?

[–] TonyOstrich 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Right!?!?! Check out the Hilux Champ they are selling in Thailand. I would kill for an electric version of that for daily driving in the city and whatever DIY/hardware store needs I may have. I don't need to hall heavy things just awkward and large things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

See that was one thing I was hoping for with electric, Odd small trucks making a come back. But nope, just Ferd F-teenthousand all the way down now.

[–] this_1_is_mine 2 points 2 months ago

Twin Axel small displacement turbo diesel..... Omg.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Texan here. I have seen a lot of trucks.

is that real?…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this is Alberta. Guess everything is bigger here....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I lost and won at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Could you imagine driving this thing in a city?

[–] thallamabond 8 points 2 months ago

Yep. But it does not look factory.

https://www.kingseriespickup.com/

[–] Etterra 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not a truck; that's a limousine with truckly aspirations.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wouldn’t be American if you weren‘t able to take your tank to grocery shopping on your flatbed. Freedom baby

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This is in fact not American.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Hey we have one of these in my old town too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

A van could transport the people, but what about his emotional support refrigerators? They won't fit in a van.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

limousine wannabe?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm looking for a car-truck-van-suv-limo-4x4.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

All of a sudden the Homer seems like a rational automobile

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't you touch my truck-boat-truck

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck me. And he has plans to ruin the prop...

[–] IphtashuFitz 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Next up, the CyberSub…. Who is ready to risk drowning in one?

[–] pdxfed 2 points 2 months ago

As long as Musk decides to explore the Titanic on its inaugural run...

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's Elon Musk for those who don't want to click.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

well, now I don't, so thanks

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The boat is mine. The boat is MINE!

[–] drunkpostdisaster 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If I ever get a terminal illness I am going to spend the rest of my days slashing the tires of every overside truck I see.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 7 points 2 months ago

Easier to clip the valve stems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Eh good chance they will not notice and these things are over $100k so likely the monetary aspect will be shrugged off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You underestimate the rate of deficit spending some men in the country engage in for their gender affirming vehicles...

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[–] jordanlund 4 points 2 months ago

Extended, extrnded, extended cab...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There is a company in the city I live that has stretch limo F150's and Hummers you can rent out for shit. Imagine what you're seeing in this image but 2 to 3 times longer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That genuinely looks like an early ai generation of a truck, is that where they got this idea?

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