• Soup@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “Nothing to to tow, nothing to haul.” is so typical. And when they do it’s something even a sedan could pull or a van would have been better for. And then they’ll claim they want winter safety even as I comfortably rip by them in a blizzard with my goddamn BRZ(partly because I actually bought winter tires and they think their frozen “all-terrain” tires are good enough).

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      2 days ago

      I know a guy who’s like 250 lbs and like 3 feet wide at the shoulders and he has driven an early 2000s honda fit hatchback for two decades with a family of four. He has a work truck he borrows sometimes to haul things, which he does way more than anyone I know with a truck (farmworkers excluded). Nobody needs one of these shitty ass giant trucks.

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        2 days ago

        100%! It’s all ego and/or stupidity. I’m 6’-5” and get in that BRZ no problem. People ask me how I fit and it’s like…”easily?”. It’s really not that big a deal!

        Some old coworkers of mine rode motorcycles(most of us did, it was a bike shop) and the two sales guys who had been to the track once bought F-150s for the purpose(not a trailer, they were going to use the bed). The poorer parts guy had a little Ford Transit that fit his Ninja and the guy who made MotoGP parts on the side and raced semi-professionally had a Mercedez Metris that he could keep locked up tight. My Ninja just rode on a trailer when it needed to move.