The NYT visits America
Their shock at people wanting trucks is indicative of why their candidate lost.
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January 3rd, 2017 at 7:35 pm
As they say at TTAC, the full size pickup is the new full-size sedan.
Big comfy seats, cargo space, mileage like … an old full size sedan.
And people don’t get 4WD because they really need it so much as because it’s *what gets stocked*, and it’s not a big price-add, and it’s super handy when you *do* have a use for it.
January 3rd, 2017 at 8:03 pm
One of these days I’ll get a new truck. Crew cab, short bed, no hitch ball except for times when *I* need it.
For now, the 1996 Jeep is still working out fine.
January 3rd, 2017 at 8:46 pm
I find the explanation in the title of the piece; “…natives’ love for their trucks.”
Uh, they’re tools, people. We “love” to do things, and doing things requires trucks. Get it?
I know; you don’t.
They believe you must have some kind of deep, emotional attraction to a thing, or a need to do some virtue-signaling or trust-queuing with it, rather than having a practical application or need for it. They react the same way to our owning guns, assuming a sexual fetish or something.
It tells us a lot about them. They’ll apparently never get it, either.
January 3rd, 2017 at 9:40 pm
No way in heck I’m buying a truck.
January 4th, 2017 at 9:23 am
“Why do you need that?”
January 4th, 2017 at 10:27 am
I have a truck. Ranger, instead of a F150 because a Ranger is easier to get around town. But you can take it and its 4 wheel drive when you can pry it from my cold dead hands. Need to haul something? Covered. Need to pull something? No problem. Need to get to work, no excuses after 12 inches of snow and the roads haven’t been plowed yet? I’ll leave a little earlier.
January 4th, 2017 at 11:02 am
Drove rangers for years. Was the best thing ever packing up my dorm room for college breaks, was a fucking necessity when I was hauling around REALLY REALLY stinky scientific gear and samples.
Now I have no use for a truck so I drive an ugly-ass station wagon with AWD because I live in New England.
January 4th, 2017 at 12:31 pm
Number two son’s choice for his college vehicle. His explanation was that it was ideal for meeting girls moving in and out of dorms.
January 4th, 2017 at 5:34 pm
No way in hell I’m buying a car. I live out in flyover country, not every road is paved. With cars you’re stuck at ground-level and can’t see over anything, you can’t go to the feed store and load up with hay for the cattle and horses, can’t put your dirtbike in the back to go riding, you’re stuck on asphalt and city streets, have to wait for the snow-plow when the weather changes.
All my neighbors have trucks, even the ladies – one of ’em drives a F350 dually.
January 4th, 2017 at 6:10 pm
I’ve long had a preference for small and quick – the more go-kartish, the better. But since I got my current sedan I’ve been capped at 50″ or less TV’s because that’s all that fits in the back seat. I’m actually thinking about something in an SUV or a van when it’s time to upgrade, primarily for cargo convenience. 21-year old me – or even 35 year old me – would be apoplectic at that, so don’t none of you time machine owners even think about telling them.
January 5th, 2017 at 1:47 am
The difference between “want” and “need” is the same as the difference between “free” and “not free.”
Protip: Anyone who claims to have any insight into what you do and do not need, and suggests that you ought not have those things which you do not need, is a fascist. (The exception would be a parent speaking to a child…which is of course, how fascists see their relationship with you.)
I guarantee you that there is not a single person writing for the New York Times who never purchases anything they do not need.
January 5th, 2017 at 1:43 pm
@rickn8or, hey, that’s gender discrimination! Maybe your son will be corrected (indoctrinated) against such “toxic masculinity” at his college by enlightened profs.
January 5th, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Ron W, too late; he departed the halls of UT in 1999. You know, back when you could still get a college education in college.
January 5th, 2017 at 11:45 pm
Ron, if they’re peddling that shit at UA, it hasn’t taken yet. My parking deck is bro-dozer central; every fratboy in tuscaloosa has an F-150, Tundra, or Silverado, all double cab, 4WD, and about half with the full length bed. makes getting out in the evening a lot of fun. When I was still driving a Honda, a couple of the fuckers boxed me in for a couple of hours; haven’t parked in a corner space since then.
Of course, I work for the business school, and most of thefaculty, apart from some of the older economists, are to the right of Gengis Khan. I’d imagine things are different on the Arts and Sciences side of campus.
January 6th, 2017 at 11:55 am
“poobie”, I wonder if the other ” progressive” faculty are peddling that “free college”? If so, when are they gonna be teaching (peddling propaganda) for free?