I like when people drive lifted pickups without a speck of dirt in the bed. I call those vehicles the Pedestrian Killer 9000
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dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 year agoOil companies invented a psyop in North America centered around male insecurity with their masculinity. That’s why the best selling vehicle in North America is a massive gas guzzling pickup truck that the average person can’t come close to affording but drives anyway.
SilverFlame@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pavement princess
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Emotional Support Vehicle
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Small dick emotional support
pinkwerdo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I call them small dick compensators
mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The male safe space? :-)
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Emissions regulations apply differently to vehicles of different sizes.
TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It also makes up for their obviously small penis as well. Use to be muscle cars.
YeeterPan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And here you are, furthering the psyop
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Remember Hummers? I swear it was mostly moms who’d buy it
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember hummers, but then I got married
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is this innuendo? XD
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I forget which gen we were in, but once I was a passenger with a driver who worked sales a Hummer dealership. We were driving back to a summer camp, and as we’re passing the top of what in the winter is the tobogganing hill, he goes “guys hold on, check this out.” He goes offroad down a significant incline, mowing down saplings and dodging trees, rocks, etc, with all of us kids just trying to hold on in the back because the seats lack bolstering. We get to the bottom and he’s just like “cool right?” It was kind of cool, and it’s also what made it the perfect karenmobile.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ve also targeted maternal instincts. You can’t get a mother to look at a car unless the hood is taller than someone else’s child.
lvl13charlatan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also car seats are enormous and don’t fit well into compact cars unless the passenger side seat is all the way up and maybe not even then.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who said anything about compacts? A modern station wagon would work great inplace of an SUV.
lvl13charlatan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m just explaining why parents might opt for a larger car especially if they have multiple children. It used to be mini vans, now it’s SUVs or crossovers which are probably not much bigger than station wagons.