It's genuinely insane that anyone is allowed to put that on a road

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[–] 133 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

dual axles to haul the heaviest of insecurities and crushing debt

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  • [–] 64 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    I've never seen anything this ridiculous in person, but I've seen plenty of dumb trucks. Things like maybe lift kits and low profile tires, wheels kicked out to the side...so setup for off-road but with zero grip, shit turning radius, wobbles on the highway, and also shit for towing.

    The one that kills me is $80k trucks in the trailer park. Spend your money how you want, but it seems crazy to have a rapidly depreciating vehicle that's worth more than your home.

    There must me an easier way to prove how big your dick is.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    In fairness I would have thought this looked cool... When I was 12.

    However, it's almost a certainty that a "regular" truck could out perform this thing in every metric.

    Its notoriously difficult to get the dual rear axles to provide a meaningful benefit to traction and even load capacity.

    However, there will be a huge hit to economy, weight, acceleration, and handling.

    In summary it would be an absolute pig to own.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    12

    This is the key point. Most behaviour like this is pretty much identical to twelve year old kids wanting attention. I am going to guess anyone who wants to buy this has not received any real affection and attention from their parents.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (29 children)

    I personally know a guy who owns one of these things. He's a mid-70s white guy who manages money. He lives in Washington DC. It's the ugliest fucking car I've ever seen.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (13 children)

    I put aside my dislike for trucks that are used for commutes or even less than that but bpy, is that an ugly disfigured design, lacking any kind of proper proportions.

    Luckily that Compensator 9000 is certainly not street legal in the EU.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    Not legal in DC, either, but unfortunately that doesnt stop people

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    The difference is the these laws are enforced here

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Must be nice, lol. Unfortunately, in the US, most rules around the road legality of a vehicle are enforced during inspections, which not every state has. Even the states that have them have a really low cost on the inspection, so mechanics who do them are incentivized to just rubber stamp them.

    Other than that, lots of problems are considered a "secondary offense", which means you won't be pulled over for it, but you can be ticketed for it if you are pulled over for another reason. Broadly, I dont think that's necessarily a bad policy, but it does have the effect where they end up being effectively unenforced unless the cop has a reason to want to hit you with the book.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    In the EU enforcement of traffic rules is a matter of member states, but many rules are codified on EU level, at least for what is street legal. That abomination above violates the common rules already quite clearly. It is thinkable that one can grey import individual cars and get a custom license for that but even than some modifications will be required, but that depends on the local authorities. In any case it must be hard or expensive as you basically don't see that kind of nonsense on the streets.

    If you are seen driving an obviously non-street legal car and can't come up with papers to the contrary your vehicle gets immediately grounded, towed and you can call a taxi. If you are a repeat offender chances are you could lose your drivers license and when you are driving without one consequences can get much worse.

    But hey, you can still get an Aixam for your mobility needs without a drivers license: https://www.aixam.com/en/ They even sell "Crossovers" for those with increased compensation needs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Are RVs illegal in the EU? This doesn't look bigger than those, just dumber.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    There are likely numerous things that make this hard to get street legal. The one I am pretty certain are the tires extending beyond the anyway entirely dysfunctional (non street legal) fenders. This is horrendously dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    The main differences that in the EU, if something is not legal, companies are not allowed to sell it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Then how do people do things like auto racing on tracks if they can't buy non-street-legal cars? Or off roading? You can definitely buy plenty of Unimogs that look effectively the same as this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    They can't. This class of vehicle isn't legal in the European Union it's why the cybertruck isn't legal (there's a whole bunch of other problems with it as well but the weight limit is a major problem). If you wanted anyway just to have it on private property you're out to luck. Someone did train import to cybertruck into the UK and had it confiscated.

    I think there is a classification for vehicle that you can get if it's something like a race car or rally car but it can't be driven on the road and has to be driven around on a truck to move it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Look closer. They are not like the vehicle above. None of them has tires that are extending beyond the fenders. None of them has dysfunctional fenders like that abomination above. Guess why.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Okay, here is one with tires that go beyond the fenders.

    https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/jeep-wrangler-wrangler-unlimited-3-6-v6-rubicon-auto-gasoline-white-cat_ma38mo1807-a109f1af-470c-479e-a373-77d12b35ca3b

    Dishonorable mention to this one, which I think technically is within the lateral bounds, but definitely not covered enough otherwise.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    It is hard to say from the images. It is certainly pushing the limit, but do the tires really extend beyond the car? They might slightly, but not all perspectives look like it. Anyhow, if they do, I would assume that this is either not street legal or some grey import with indivdual license. Honestly I don't know if Lithuanian and/or Italian authorities let stuff like that slide. Where I live, stuff like that would be fished out of traffic and grounded. I have never seen anything like that on the road, ever.

    The 2nd link does not show tires going beyond the fenders, even though it looks like a poser car for assholes, that has never even gotten close to anything off-road.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    Amazing. You can fit soooo many groceries in that after yoga class.

    Looks like both yours and OP's image are from here: apocalypse6x6.com

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh I love this. So many parts so exposed, if someone carried a grudge they'd just take a cordless angle grinder to it and it'd be disabled without you even noticing until you try to drive it away. Shit, you could just cut into the engine block sooo easily.

    What the fuck are those actually supposed to be good for?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Why though. What's even the utility of something like this?

    Surely, surely... the inconvenience and cost of having something like this in your life must outweigh that of renting a trailer for those off times when you need to haul something.

    That thing just looks so stupid and huge and bad.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Car guy here, let me explain!

    Nah I'm just fucking with you, I don't have an explanation. This doesn't look fun to drive on roads and despite having more ground clearance than something like a Toyota RAV4 and 6 wheel drive and everything, I wouldn't take it off road either. So much distance between the first and second axle. Damn thing looks like it could bend pretty easily if you drive it the way one ought to drive an off-road vehicle with a Hellcat engine: Like a trophy truck. Because trophy trucks are built to take that beating and this is almost certainly not. So you can crawl slowly with your 900 horsepower tuned Hellcat and watch some dude in a Wrangler pass you at a fifth of the price and a third of the engine size because smaller and lighter is an advantage when going off road over heavy and clumsy usually.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    😆

    Yeah dude, it just makes no sense whatsoever except as a dick extender. Such nonsense.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The Canyonero was ruled unsafe for highway or city driving by the Federal Highway Commission.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    To be fair, it does look totally badass at first glance.

    Reminds of those pictures I used to draw of future vehicles with more huge wheels and tracks and sections than necessary. And there were usually laser cannons and grappling hooks on them.

    This specimen appears to have neither a laser turret nor giant robot crane claw or saws mounted on it, thus, unacceptable.

    Take it away, it offends me.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Lots or rubber to replace. Could bankrupt a fella

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Hey, if you don’t have a military-sized budget for badass accoutrements, can you even call yourself an alpha-male?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    That thing doesn’t even run on jet fuel. Like, it’s just pleb gas you can buy on the side of the road. If your vehicle isn’t powered by something that needs extra regulations and significantly more insurance, you’re just driving a hybrid.

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    Woah I've never seen a fully rendered cyber truck, I always just see the ps2 model.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    That's something I would have used for my game idea called "Evil Car", a car racing game, where you fuel cars with the blood of orphans, and tune them by sacrificing cute puppies and virgins to it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Guy probably has an arsenal at home, has a bunch of guns in the truck and at least one or two on him at all times.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    And he will be taken out with 1 drone strike if it ever came to actual conflict. I wonder how much that monstrosity cost.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It was only $10k, actually. Just put something down, drive it for a few months and let the repo guy come get it. Cheaper than renting.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    Nah you just roll the negative equity into the next one and then the one after that and

    At the end of the spiral you'll have a base model F-150 with 200k principal owed on it at only 17,9% APR for 10 years

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    It's the exact same with preppers. Oh I see you've got stockpiles of food in this basement so you could last about 6 months, I'm sure the ash clouds will have dispersed by then. Presumably they are on some special alert list so that they'll be told in the event of nuclear strike so they can get to their nice bunker in time.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I see dicks are getting smaller these days

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Republicans must have the smallest dicks known to man.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    wake up babe, a new threshold for overcompensating just dropped

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    What a ridiculous gender affirming vehicle.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm sure this is someone who has all their shit toghether. No issues whatsoever.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    > Called "Apocalypse Juggernaut"

    > Look inside

    > Possibly the worst build for an apocalyptic event

    Bit of a personal bone to pick, people like this make me feel cringe whenever I say I'm a pepper or have a firearm. Movies don't reflect reality, the world doesn't stop in a day, and if a single car collides with that behemoth, he'll probably wind up in deep debt.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I stopped identifying as a prepper in 2020. When it actually happened, my family locked down and did exactly what we had planned for. We had masks in the emergency kit, food and water for weeks, books for the kids, you name it. I felt smart.

    Until the other preppers exposed my naivete by just waltzing outside. Whatever, fuck them, I'm stocking up for the next pandemic. Next time, toilet paper.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Agreed.

    The only plus here is that things like that are becoming cost-prohibitive to drive thanks to the scarcity of fuel and subsequent price gouging, but I can't imagine the tiny peen syndrome required to make a vehicle like that attractive to a reasonable, grown man.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    In the early 80s I would have thought this was the coolest thing and would have looked around, certain KITT must be nearby. I guess some people never grow out of the toddler fascination for BIG TRUCK.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Very clean for an off road vehicle.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    All that, just to never even leave the 5 mile radius around their home, probably.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Brought to you by the people who wanted to ban games like Carmaggedon.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Cyberpunk 2077 cosplay

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Insane the things people would rather have than money.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I think it is time to roll out the ICE Annihilator 9000 to defend all children everywhere in the name of Liam Conejo.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    I just love the fact there's a Smart Fortwo in the space next to The Compensator

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Someone made Bane their personality.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    More like the penis pump 9000

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Such a wanton disregard for others is a clear manifestation of a DSM condition that should be treated.

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