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But at the very least, there are way too many 350's on the streets compared to the number of people that have any actual reason to own one. And far too many with duelies. You don't have to go all the way to 650 to be getting a little nuts.
I’m glad we live in a country where your opinion on what vehicle a person should own or not own is just that… an opinion.
I'd agree more if you said F150 instead of F350. F305s are much more likely to actually be used for truck things rather than making people feel manly or whatever since those people aren't likely to spend more for worse ride quality and less mpg.
That's fair, I should state, my perspective is from living in Alberta. Where high-school kids work out in the oil patch and come back with their first month's pay and put themselves into 10 years of debt with the biggest pickup truck they can get. Then crash it a month later doing 150km/h on a dirt road back up to or down from work. Probably with a few beers in them.
I know that sounds like I'm describing one particular story that I have gotten hung up on, but I personally know at least 4 people where those details fit. The only one that varies between those 4 is whether they had been drinking. And I live in a small town.
It's a bit of a joke around here that half the kids are paying off college debt, and the other half are paying off Truck debt. Although up here college debt doesn't last anywhere near as long as Truck debt.
We do see way too many ornamental 350's here. I assume that's the biggest one you can buy normally or something like that.