Pickup Truck Drivers Are Rednecks!

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by 4X4

So here's a few questions for all you people around here that constantly insert flippant remarks about people that drive trucks or "gas guzzling SUVs":

1. Who do you call when you need help moving? - Someone with a sensible SUV or truck, not some stupid-ass dualie HEMI abomination
2. Who do you call when you've made a large purchase and need help bringing it home? - see above
3. How do you think tradesmen move their tools around the city and bring them to your house to fix whatever thing it is that's broken? - Unfortunately, they drive that's about 10,000 times bigger than necessary to move a tool box
4. What do you think of your beloved hockey heros that drive big trucks "for no reason"? - "Because I can" is a poor reason to drive a stupid ass road hog of a vehicle, especially in the city
5. Why do you assume that because it's clean and empty that it's always clean and empty? - I don't know what this means, but trucks are a waste
6. Are you aware that the V8 in your grandpa's Crown Victoria is just as bad on gas as the V6 in my truck? - My grandpa's dead ******* and drove Oldsmobiles, not Fords
7. Do you still hate me after I pull over and drag your car over the snow hump that the city grader left on your side street? - I don't drive so poorly that I need some lout in a truck to help me
8. Do you realize that for most people it's not feasible to own the necessary pickup truck plus a Prius to boot around town in when not hauling things? - The simple solution is to ditch the truck. Problem solved! Plus there definitely isn't a happy medium between some godawful six wheeled monstrosity and a Prius. Definitely not.
9. Have you ever owned a pickup truck and discovered all their uses? - I would never be caught dead owning a truck
10. Did your redneck, pickup-driving father beat you as a child? - If he owned a truck, he would have. Thankfully he is a sensible man

[pylon]

If you factor in the costs of owning a truck as a daily driver vs. the costs of owning a fuel efficient car and renting a truck when you truly need one, or paying for delivery charges, the car almost always wins.

I am not disputing tradesmen needing them or people that tow 10k + kms per year, but anything less than that you are flushing your cash. I am your regular everyday guy that really needs a truck 3 maybe 4 times a year, and I spend on maximum $300 a year renting one when required when my parents are towing their trailer to the US and theirs is not available. Even they have a TDI Jetta they use when they are not towing with their Cummins.

If I factored out the the use of theirs it still would negate buying one as it amounts to 1 or 2 trips. I drive a 2008 VW GTI that gets averages about 9L/100 KMS and with my driving habits saves me around $2000/ year in fuel over a full size truck that gets good mileage by truck standards. That and it is actually fun to drive is fast as hell and has this cool thing call "handling". That and a hatchback will satisfy 95 percent of most peoples hauling needs. Lets not even talk about depreciation on trucks.. thats a whole other cash flushing argument on them.

[paull]

People who think you can pull a trailer with a car obviously have never pulled anything before. It's hard on the car, and most of all it's effin dangerous.

Utter, utter BS. YOU're the one who obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. People all over the world tow all manner of trailers with cars - that's why they haven't "discovered" the pickup, they don't need it - what's different about the laws of physics in North America?
Cars can pull trailers. Cars are designed to pull trailers. Pickups are designed to move pigsh1t around farms. Simple.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by paull

People who think you can pull a trailer with a car obviously have never pulled anything before. It's hard on the car, and most of all it's effin dangerous.

Utter, utter BS. YOU're the one who obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. People all over the world tow all manner of trailers with cars - that's why they haven't "discovered" the pickup, they don't need it - what's different about the laws of physics in North America?
Cars can pull trailers. Cars are designed to pull trailers. Pickups are designed to move pigsh1t around farms. Simple.

hahahahaha

Whatever you say man. Come pull my sleds with a car, see how you make out. Talk to me when your brakes are fried and your suspension is shot, or you ended up in the ditch when you jack knifed trying to get up a hill in your front wheel drive VW.

I've been pulling trailers my entire life; everything from cattle, horses, sleds, boats and RV's. Cars won't cut it for what I use my truck for.

[millhouse11]

pulling a trailer with a car is do-able providing that the trailer is small. ie: tent trailer. But now a days, you go camping and you see some fat lazy ###### who has this monstrosity of a trailer (the home away from home) because he's too stupid and lazy to "rough it" for a weekend. (like sleeping in a tent trailer is roughing it...only a would think this, and should stay in the city). Hell I saw one dumba$$ connect a satellite dish to a tree so he could watch tv while his family went out and played. Anyways, this isn't a trailer thread. But if your trailer is bigger than Rita McNeil, you need a big truck. Sorry, I sorta vented there about the trailers.
I have a truck, I'm not against trucks.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by millhouse11

. Anyways, this isn't a trailer thread. But if your trailer is bigger than Rita McNeil, you need a big truck. Sorry, I sorta vented there about the trailers.
I have a truck, I'm not against trucks.

Exactly. Debating someone's lifestyle is another thread.

I'd like to see someone in a car pull a horse trailer. Actually no, I wouldn't. I'd feel bad for the horses when they crashed.

[burn_this_city]

Whats the issue with trailers?? I don't get the hate some posters have with other peoples purchases.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by Cowboy89

I thought ######bag was more accurately descriptive of the chochy, popped collar type of guy. Isn't redneck derogatory enough?

Douchbags exist all around us. Citation:

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Whats the issue with trailers?? I don't get the hate some posters have with other peoples purchases.

Trailers of themselves are not an issue. Its the justification that by owning a trailer you use on weekends at most to have a gas guzzling F-350 for everything else also that I think most posters have a beef with.

EDIT: I guess what I'm saying is that its morally justified to have a big trailer if you can also afford to have the needed F-350 as a weekend vehicle while still commuting with something smaller. That is a lot of dough...