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Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. (nyc.streetsblog.org)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Why didn't you buy one with a lower height but the same load capacity? Safer and makes loading stuff easier.

Us Australians look at weird American raised utes and scratch our heads in puzzlement. You've got a higher driver position, granted, but it's also a higher centre of gravity, it's harder to park in garages and underground car parks, it's harder to see pedestrians, it's harder to load stuff into the tray, etc.

You clearly aren't just driving it to look pretty, like many people that we both probably get annoyed by. What's the story?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The fact that they never brought the Holden Ute over to the US as a new El Camino is frustrating.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think it's pricing

    I got a friend who bought a RAM last year. he was previously hauling construction equipment in his partner's crossover and his own sedan. a pickup was an appropriate buy

    HOWEVER he got a RAM (thankfully no LED headlights, though they are mounted way too high still), and tbh I'm not really sure what his alternatives were. "small" pickups like the Maverick are too small, and expensive

    also he's like 6'4" 250+lb so he physically needs a bigger cabin lol

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