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.
Nah, neither our bloodiest nor to secure oil. Much more to do with neocon dickwaving imagining that they could impose their will on long-standing enemies, and a desire to feed the military-industrial complex and get some graft in as well.
In any case, I ask myself “What the fuck” when I see these monstrosities too. Luckily, they’re not that common. I imagine they’ll go the way of the Hummer in a few years. Just another form of conspicuous consumption.
they’re common enough to be mass produced.
Mass produced for the commercial market. F-650s aren’t meant for Bubba to show off to his friends, they’re meant for hauling freight, being tow trucks and dump trucks.
I mean, bulldozers are mass produced too, but that doesn’t mean people are driving them around too often.
It’s a commercial vehicle base for use with ambulances, mid size freight shipping, or heavy utility vehicles like power company repair vehicles.
This is something like a $250,000 truck.
Sure, but in a nation of some 333 million a lot of stupid things are common enough to be mass produced.
They have some legitimate uses, mind, but most purchasers are just dickwaving.
Yeah and this Is what I’m not getting. Not the existence, but normal, non commercial people buying it. The wastefullness is so insane.
There’s such a small number of these being purchased by non-commercial drivers that it’s insignificant
Yeah totally. I mean EVs aren’t better right? The idea of producing a low emmissions efficient small car is not in any consumers mind. Oh people want EVs? Sure, lets give them an electric HUMMER or a cold rolled box of steel which slices pedestrians like a blade. I don’t get, that people look at this and like it.
The common thought on this, as i understand it, is twofold:
Most people in the US have already purchased their last ICE vehicle, and are either going to drive it until the wheels fall off, or until the 3rd gen BEVs are out.
I would argue the gulf war was fought over oil.
Eh, I’d say that’s really roundabout, as the First Gulf War started because Saddam wanted to seize Kuwait’s oil, and the US regarded Saddam gaining a massive influx of resources at the expense of the conquest of another country as undesirable, especially given the triumphalism of the early 90s. So in that sense, you could say it was to secure oil, but that’s a bit roundabout, and the First Gulf War wasn’t particularly bloody.
When you go to war to secure oil, you fight… for oil. Maybe not bloody, but invading another country to keep oil prices low so stuff like this can exist…
But… we didn’t invade Iraq in the First Gulf War. That was the whole point of the First Gulf War. We stopped our advance in a matter of hours after pushing over the border because the whole point was to defend Kuwait at Kuwait’s request, and with the approval of the international community, including our traditional rivals.
I’m not arguing about war at 2 am in the morning.
That’s fine.