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Truck cruelty (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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Tumblr post: "20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo" with a photo of a pickup truck infront of a much larger pickup truck. Reply: "it's so sad that they've been selectively bred for size and aesthetics over their health. look at that pushed-in muzzle—there’s no way the one on the right can breathe properly"
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why not compare to a F250 which was available in the 1970s? Curb weight 4,067.5 pounds, gross vehicle weight is 7,605.9. Though a lot of people moved from the F350 to the F250 when the superduty line came out in the 1990s - I'm not able to find specs of the F350 from that era, but it would be what I'd look for in a comparison.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why compare to an F250 when the F250 is needlessly large?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because the f250 has been around for many years and has always been a large truck. Comparing a compact truck to a large truck is not fair.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why not, if the compact truck will do what you need?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    we have no info on who is using these trucks and so cannot make any claims. for some the compact truck would do everything as well, for some it would not. if we add the assumption that someone is really doing some task we can talk.

    note that when looking at specs just because it can do a job doesn't mean it should. The compact truck is rated for a 6000lbs trailer but that is more than I would do with it.

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