• SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    Modest trucks for tradesmen that will build our future infrastructure? Nah!

    Over-bloated monstrosity for men with certain genital inadequacies? YES!

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    My engineer portion of brain: super cool

    The rest of my brain: dammit, they’re going to sell these to any ninny who can afford one, and I’ll have to survive on/near roads with them

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        15 hours ago

        Anecdotal evidence, but people I know that buy these kinds of monstrosities only look at/care about the monthly lease payments

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          I’ve seen a lot of trailer homes (stationary ones that can’t be towed) with vehicles that cost several times what the house likely cost.

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        0% no cash down loans will help those who want this car. Oh wait you have bad credit. 39% and the traid in of your current car. We can roll the negative equity into the loan. Spread this out of 150 months and the repayment should be manageable if you take up a second job.

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      Do you have any days that shows these sport trucks actually cause more damage than some dude in a beater? Enthusiasts tend to like their shit.

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    11 hours ago

    Yet it’s illegal to operate on any public road an ebike with a 750 watt motor, which equals about 1 hp. Follow the lobbyist’s money for more answers.

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    Automotive journalism is a cesspit of seething coke-pithed misogynists who are so pissed off that it’s not the 80s anymore, they can’t stand it.

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      Not sure about the coke and misogyny but it’s definitely full of manboys who think “fast=cool”. Even the beloved Top Gear was full of masturbating to supercars.

      There was an accident were a Polish automotive journalist crashed a Ferrari he was test driving. He was going something like 200km/h in a city, lost control and hit a concrete column. The passenger died*. The media was full of people praising automotive journalists for a couple of days with idiot comments like “it’s such a dangerous job. imagine you’re test driving a supercar on a mountain road. how can you resist going fast?”. For fuck’s sake…

      *The driver had a serious brain damage (as a result of the accident, not sure about before it) and spend some time in a coma. When he woke up he become sort of a celebrity. Never went to prison or anything.

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    11 hours ago

    And it only costs you $30 in gas every time you do it!

    Be a man! Make rich pedos richer!

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    11 hours ago

    Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should