Do Europeans drive pick-ups?

darvlay · Post by **darvlay** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:07 pm

Skittles! wrote:That 'car' is one ugly motherfucker.

LMAO! Couldn't have said it better.

Iz Man · Post by **Iz Man** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:10 pm

I'll be jumping into one of these in a couple of months.
2008 F-250 Superduty, Triton V-10 with a plow package. (mine will have a cap on the bed)

HungrySomali · Post by **HungrySomali** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:15 pm

Skittles! wrote:That 'car' is one ugly motherfucker.

THats the Ford F650. Pretty bad ass truck. They make a Tonka version that I saw recently. It's pretty behemoth.

I believe they run around $80,000.

Snowpepsi · Post by **Snowpepsi** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:17 pm

I live way out west, in California's central valley. My town of 50,000 is 20 minutes from Fresno which has a pop. of over 400,000. At least 1 in 3 homes has a truck parked out front. Fresno is about the same. Trucks are very popular in the central valley.

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:20 pm

Snowpepsi wrote:I live way out west, in California's central valley. My town of 50,000 is 20 minutes from Fresno which has a pop. of over 400,000. At least 1 in 3 homes has a truck parked out front. Fresno is about the same. Trucks are very popular in the central valley.

Last night, I was giggling about your post about your 15 cars or whatever, and my partner came and looked over my shoulder and read it and said, "Whoa. Is she from Bakersfield or something?"

Pretty close.

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:39 pm

Apart from the one glide posted, every car that has made a visual appearance in this thread has been too big, too ugly and too uneconomic. I wouldn't want to be seen in any of them, unless maybe I was freezing to death in some snowy desert in Texas and Jessica Alba or so happened to drive by in one of them...

Grooveman2007 · Post by **Grooveman2007** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:24 pm

MeDeFe wrote:Apart from the one glide posted, every car that has made a visual appearance in this thread has been too big, too ugly and too uneconomic.

It's only uneconomic if you don't live in the city. In America, a lot of people still have farms, or live in small towns where the roads arn't paved and the ones that are are full of holes. If you live miles from the nearest city, the tiny little remote control cars people drive in Europe just wont cut it.

Iz Man · Post by **Iz Man** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:33 pm

MeDeFe wrote: unless maybe I was freezing to death in some snowy desert in Texas

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:20 pm

Complaints about the size? Here's a small truck for you.

There are other small trucks out there, and that one is about the size of a car, though a little longer due to the bed.

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:03 am

That's another one I could live with.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:17 am

muy_thaiguy wrote:Complaints about the size? Here's a small truck for you.

There are other small trucks out there, and that one is about the size of a car, though a little longer due to the bed.

That is a not a truck, that's a Ute. There is a difference.

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:22 am

That's a truck, a small one at that.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:24 am

No, it's a Ute.

This is a truck:

Jenos Ridan · Post by **Jenos Ridan** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:37 am

Kid_A wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:All I here from Europe is what kind of car that someone drives, but I have never heard anyone mention that they drive a truck. So is it just a North American thing or what?
only white trash americans drive pick ups. at least thats been my experience.

You, sir, are a real piece of work. What you just said is like me saying that British people all have bad teeth (to the best of my knowledge, this is an entertainment-industry exaggeration).

To all you who think that trucks all have to be massive, this too is untrue: Datsun/Nissan ring any bells? For the average american who needs to haul anything from lumber for his/her home to a great many bags of concrete for a shop floor, a truck is very economic. For off-roading (a phemomena probably unknown in Europe) a larger 4x4 like my friend's Dodge '77 Power Wagon or an older Jeep (not a Wrangler nor a Cherokee, think Willies) is the recommended vehicle; Hummers are a joke as are all SUVs (including your precious Land Rovers).

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:43 am

Skittles! wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:Complaints about the size? Here's a small truck for you.

There are other small trucks out there, and that one is about the size of a car, though a little longer due to the bed.
That is a not a truck, that's a Ute. There is a difference.

yeah
the typical 4wd

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:51 am

GAH!

4WD

The other is a ute!

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:16 am

Skittles! wrote:No, it's a Ute.

This is a truck:

Closer to a semi-truck if anything, but a regular truck has a bed, and sometimes a hood for the bed. Also, the term "Ute" seems to only be a Aussie slang term, nothing more.

Neoteny · Post by **Neoteny** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:31 pm

muy_thaiguy wrote:
Skittles! wrote:No, it's a Ute.

This is a truck:

Closer to a semi-truck if anything, but a regular truck has a bed, and sometimes a hood for the bed. Also, the term "Ute" seems to only be a Aussie slang term, nothing more.

I've used it on crossword puzzles. I believe the key difference is that it is a "pickup" truck.

EDIT: Wikipedia says they're the same thing, so unless you've got a hard-on for semantics (in which case, noone probably gives a shit) let it drop.

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:34 pm

Neoteny wrote:
muy_thaiguy wrote:
Skittles! wrote:No, it's a Ute.

This is a truck:

Closer to a semi-truck if anything, but a regular truck has a bed, and sometimes a hood for the bed. Also, the term "Ute" seems to only be a Aussie slang term, nothing more.
I've used it on crossword puzzles. I believe the key difference is that it is a "pickup" truck.

The one I posted, yes, it is a smaller pick-up then average.

Neoteny · Post by **Neoteny** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:34 pm

Yeah, I wasn't talking about the picture. Just the word.

Snowpepsi · Post by **Snowpepsi** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:42 pm

music

Snowpepsi · Post by **Snowpepsi** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:45 pm

Grooveman2007 wrote:
MeDeFe wrote:Apart from the one glide posted, every car that has made a visual appearance in this thread has been too big, too ugly and too uneconomic.
It's only uneconomic if you don't live in the city. In America, a lot of people still have farms, or live in small towns where the roads arn't paved and the ones that are are full of holes. If you live miles from the nearest city, the tiny little remote control cars people drive in Europe just wont cut it.

Exactly!

brooksieb · Post by **brooksieb** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:16 pm

only a few people in europe drive pick-up trucks, we drive land rovers or range rovers with are much more sexier and better, the land rover looks a bit like a army jeep, but we have a thing called 'transport'

you lot are fucking up the world just get a normal car, and complain to ur states to get transport and stop fucking up the world, ur creating ur own problems.

Balsiefen · Post by **Balsiefen** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:17 pm

muy_thaiguy wrote:Complaints about the size? Here's a small truck for you.

There are other small trucks out there, and that one is about the size of a car, though a little longer due to the bed.

You think thats small?

good luck if you think you could drive that on many English country roads.

brooksieb · Post by **brooksieb** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:18 pm

and i know not all americans are like that but there is just too many people that drive them vehicles

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