Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys serious?! Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry? Americas bloodiest wars have been fought in the middle east to secure oil, bombing nations to rubble. And all, for this bullshit? The excess, waste and decadence is mind boggling to me and people on Reddit seriously justifying this by “you know dude I’m 6,4ft. I don’t fit in any other vehicle” makes me go up the wall.
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If you want to be even more outraged by American stupidity, look up “rolling coal”. In short, morons buy large trucks like this and purposely detune their emissions systems to run poorly, decreasing fuel efficiency and spewing soot laden exhaust. The only purpose to do this is to piss off liberals, apparently.
You’re joking? Oh my,… you’re not.
The best part (/s) is when they purposefully drive in front of people with a ‘wimpy’ car, like a hybrid or EV or a car that isn’t fuckhuge, and intentionally spews smog behind them.
Very mature folk, very stable, very safe to be around, as I’m sure you can tell.
Where I live, you get up to two years in jail for brake-checking someone, and a potentially life-altering fine if you cut off a pedestrian. Cops are extremely strict about cars endangering others because they’re very easy charges. I’d love to see their reaction to rolling coal.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone brake-checking in my country. It’s almost always videos from the US.
Probably because drivers’ education in the USA is a fucking joke and licenses are handed out like candy. New drivers inherit the flaws and bad manners from their parents because they’re not required to be trained by a certified instructor.
and remember - they vote too!
Or bikes
When I see those assholes I pull up next to them and tell them to pull over so I can fart in their mouth.
Where is the 2nd ammendment if you need it?
Sadly they are not, the people that do it are the worst kind of asshole. They generally like to “roll coal” while passing electric or hybrid cars, covering them with soot. The spend thousands of dollars to be as obnoxious and wasteful as possible, all to spite “the liberals”.
It’s the best possible way to spot who was the bottom 10% of the high school class.
That’s how i feel when i see a MAGA or FuckTrudeu sticker on a vehicle
do they wear face coverings
You know this is by no means a common vehicle right? I’ve never seen one outside of a few pictures only found on anti-car posts. F350s are even rare to see on the roads, F150s are more common than grass and F250s are a daily sight unfortunately.
This isn’t even a 350
This is a heavily modified F650(750?). They took a commercial truck and slapped a pickup truck body on it. It’s comically useless, and costs 150 thousand dollars.
Here’s a video where a guy reviews it.
150k is about how much you’ll pay for a RAM here in Australia - and dickheads are still buying them.
Ah, the worst of the American trucks.
For that much money I could clean out an entire used truck lot, and have enough left over for another entire used truck lot, and I would have like 30 Dodge rams. So enough to make one last most of the rest of the year.
We call them Dodge Deweys (DUIs) because of that factoid that the Ram 2500 has the most drivers of any truck brand/model with a DUI under their belt.
Literally. Rams are horrible
What, it exists?! I thought it was some digital creation inspired by a 350, already an awful huge truck.
Edit: had to look at Ford’s website. The biggest pickup I could find there is an F450 Super Duty. There’s both an F650 and 750 as trucks without beds (“straight frame”). Those actual trucks.
Yea I know, I didn’t say it was a 350 lol
Your average half ton pickup is 70-80k now.
You actually probably see a lot of F250s and F350s, but they are used as commercial vehicles, often with stuff bolted to the bed (or in the case of the F350, sold without a bed and have aftermarket attachments).
Many tow trucks are F350s/F450s (and bigger for towing bigger vehicles), ambulances are often F550s, bucket trucks are F650s/F750s, etc.
F150s are for the weekender dads that occasionally need to haul something around. F250s and 350s are for people that actually work (usually) this monstrosity is bullshit, anyone that genuinely needs that much truck buys an actual semi or something.
Living full time in an RV I purchased a 2500 (F-250 equivalent). I have put as much if not more miles on the thing than the “working man” (sitting about 22,000 for this year). I do agree it is a monster of a vehicle and I do try to only use it for the towing of the RV. Any chance I get I’m riding my bike. A semi for this situation is overkill and an absurd price difference compared to the 2500.
I’m Dutch. I’ve never seen an f150 in the flesh (metal?). I know one guy with a large pickup, he has two very tall kids and has his own business. My parents had what was considered a large car, a Citroën Berlingo.
Suv’s are becoming much more common though, and they are already often too big for our roads.
F150s are as ubiquitous in the US as Renault Clios or equivalent for you
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F250 is super common for construction fleet vehicles.
Yea that’s why I said they’re a daily sight. The picture in OP is a f650 though and those are very uncommon
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There is bigger, the f750 exists, is also fully customizable for commercial needs like dump truck duty or heavy hauling not needing a Peterbilt semi. There is a use case for these or they wouldn’t be made.
They absolutely are not commuter/weekend warrior vehicles like people use the f150 for and you’ll probably never see the 650 or 750 and recognize it
It’s common where I live.
The f650 is not common anywhere fuck off with that blatant lie
I don’t know how common it is, I don’t want to blurt a wrong opinion about it.
That said, a friend of mine went to the US to work as a construction manager for a few months and he was given an F750 for the time he was there by the construction company. It was kitted with a small box that was too high to actually use and really they only used it to posture about how important their position was.
I understand this might not be common at all, I’m not saying it is, I just want you to understand how this doesn’t happen anywhere else at all.
It’s just that, it is such a crazy thing to exist that it just boggles the mind. It’s excessive even for most commercial applications.
If I see three in an hour drive, that seems common enough to me. Go kiss your mother with that sewer mouth.
You clearly can’t tell the difference between truck models
These are novelty vehicles for the ultra wealthy. “Normal” pickups are already comically large and ripe for mockery, no need to hyperbolize
This is a work truck for commercial use. The bed in this image is an aftermarket mod done by someone with more money than sense. OP is just outrage baiting.
I’m not defending the truck or America but I don’t think that one is common outside of industry. I live in the South and have never seen one. F150’s are very common, you see F250’s here and there, and F350s are basically exclusively work trucks. I didn’t even know it went up to F650 (the F750 apparently exists but seems like it’s really only for industry).
Ford’s web site has them “starting at” $80k but without a bed or any consumer features. It seems like they’re more the base for order things like fleets of tow trucks or dump trucks. I’m sure a mega rich person can buy one but it’s probably a weird custom thing that costs $200,000 and is missing whatever creature comforts go into vanity trucks.
650s and 750s make up most of those electric service vehicles (huge boxes of tools over the wheels and maybe a cherry picker) and Ambulances. Since ambulances are private businesses (not owned by a hospital wouldn’t you know it.) They purchase their fleets and commission a box for the back. That’s why you see so many different vehicles that look “converted” - because they are!
I’m not discounting your experience but I grew up and lived in Georgia for most of my life, and you are right that f150s are very common, but I remember many more 250s than here and there, I’ve only been gone two years
And I’m sure there are no over the top vehicles in Germany…
There are some morons here that are buying American made “trucks”. More and more unfortunately, but it’s still pretty rare. Luckily it’s damn inconvenient to drive or park them in many places here.
Sadly they are becoming more by the day. The amount of Hiluxes is also steadily increasing in my neighborhood.
Saw one the yesterday in Oklahoma. They look like gaint Tonka toys and are stupid. But Chevy made one in the early 2000’s guess Ford wants into it now.
These should be outlaw. And I know how to solve the rolling coal but we need to bring back inspections for vehicles to sholve it.
It’s a medium duty truck. The 550 and 650 are most commonly found acting as either tow trucks or heavy machinery repair. Outlawing them is preposterous as they serve a purpose.
Since they’re sold incomplete (without a bed), maybe he means outlawing them being modified like this one with a silly bed? Either way, I’m pretty sure you need a commercial air-brake license to drive this thing in most jurisdictions.
One I saw had a bed and was pulling a trailer. It was loud as fuck.
To be fair, Ford doesn’t really make the final product here. They make the cab and chassis without a bed, and they’re then shipped off to companies that turn them into commercial trucks like large tow trucks. But some company started buying them, slapping on a pickup truck bed, a lift, and a bunch of cheesy accessories and 'Murica flags, then charge idiots $100,000 more than they’re worth so they can own the Libruls.
They’re so rare to see that I’m not even mad, as long as some dipshit is wasting his life savings on this instead of donating it to shit politicians.
Edit: Ford doesn’t even make or offer a pickup truck bed for these. IIRC, these beds are from F-250/350s and modded to fit.
Maybe not that recent “https://www.worktruckonline.com/335688/ford-reports-record-sales-of-the-f-650-and-f-750”. But I guess, enough guys buy em.
This size of truck isn’t common. Coal rolling is both far more egregious and common than this.
Take a video of coal rolling and report them, that’s not a legal mod.
coal rolling
I had to Google it. I’m flabbergasted.
Been seeing a fuck load of it in Nebraska when I ride my bike
Very few agencies would do more than roll their eyes at such a report.
Yeah I saw some guy doing it to UAW strikers about a month ago. Couldn’t video it though.
i live in the south, you never see these things in real life, and i’m deep in truck country.
these things are comically impractical. like you couldn’t pull into a parking garage, or much of anything with this. you’d be parking and walking to wherever you were trying to go. they would likely hit the limit sign and overhang on a typical McDonald’s.
the much more common trucks would be F150/250’s.
The F150 is a great workhorse of a truck, but yeah a fuck-tun of people are fetching McFlurries with them.
I know where one of these is, has a for sale sign on it outside the heavy truck wash in Brooks, Alberta.
- Agree this is a stupid vehicle
- To everyone outside the US, I don’t believe I’ve ever actually seen one of these on the road. FWIW, I’ve lived in two US states and traveled the whole country regularly for work.
The unofficial tagline for these things is, “if you weren’t born with a BIG something… Why not buy a BIG something? That’ll show em all…”
@Snapz @SamVergeudetZeit I wish I’d never seen one in the wild, but in fact I’ve gotten coal rolled by more than one. Of course extreme custom trucks are the tip of the iceberg. Most of the damage is done by the ever-growing fleet of off-the-rack monster trucks for ordinary suburban personal use.
Shaming about genitals or any other body part (including the brain/assertions that it’s “mental illness”) isn’t helpful. Buying/driving monster trucks is bad behavior that people should be ashamed of.
People should also be ashamed for downvoting good comments. Lemmy downvoters been driving me nuts lately. Sorry.
This isn’t about shaming genitals, it’s about shaming the people who take out their own insecurities on the world at large instead of dealing with them directly.
I know someone who owns one. He pour a dump bed on it and uses it as a commercial vehicle.
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like steak and seats thirty five?
Canyonero!
12 yards long, two lanes wide, 65 tones of American Pride!
Canyonero!!!
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She’s a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine
Canyoneroooooooooo
Hyeh Canyoneroh, hyeh!
I read this along with ‘That’s Amore’ but the Simpsons did it better
I’m 6’4, 250 lbs. Canadian
I drive an 02 golf. Before this, a Toyota 4runner (1st gen).
I’m not trying to brag… But I think it’s not a “I’m too big for anything smaller” it’s a “I’m too insecure for anything smaller”, aka “my dick is too small for anything smaller” syndrome.
I’ve recently made friends with a group of Germans who have come to Canada. I’m astonished by the practicality and industriousness I’ve noticed in contrast to the idiocy of most Canadians. I’m not saying you don’t have any idiots in Germany. I’m just saying culturally, there seem to be some big differences.
Remember, don’t let the dumbest of the world ruin your happiness.
Prost
It’s been my experience as someone who’s lived abroad a couple of years that in general, if you meet expats, they tend to be from the upper echelons of their native societies. They tend to be well educated and they have the time, the resources, the high-paying and internationally In-demand jobs, the language as well as the motivation to go abroad and experience something new. The expats you meet also don’t have anything holding them back, like E. G. a sickly relative.
All these filters make it more likely to meet interesting people.
I drive a Ford F-550 every day. To drive 20 special needs people to work and back. Because it’s a bus.
Lived in the US my entire life. Never seen one of these in person once.
Chill.
I in Texas and ive never seen one either 👀 Not even joking
Same
And then the owner bitches about fuel prices.
I overheard this conversation between two truck owners the other day.
One literally said he bought it to commute and he doesn’t care about the mpg, all in the same breath.
These people are actively stupid.
If they European level fuel taxes over there, nobody would even think about owning a monster truck.
the biggest baddest truck
They certainly know their target audience: 6 year olds
Damnnmn.
Except it isn’t marketed that way at all. It’s a commercial truck that needs a CDL.
It doesn’t need a cdl
The GVWR is 26-29k lbs. A CDL is required for any vehicle over 26k.
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Even the F250 is kinda meant to be kitted out as an RV, Bus, Box Truck, or Tow Truck. I’ve only a few times seen anything F350 or higher kitted as a “pickup”, and those were either bullet-proof(heavy AF), limos, or both.
Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry?
The end goal is to drive a Monster Truck right OVER THE FUCKING TOP OF McDs HELL YEAH BROTHA CAN I GET AN AMEN WITH A SIDE OF FRIES?!?!?!!
