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This one isn't directly about cars, but it does go some way to explaining the mentality of people that buy giant trucks that have never been used for any sort of work. That is, people who live in cities but identify as "rural" people.

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[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone who lives in the countryside, and drives a small old truck for necessity, these people are a pain in the ass, and make everything worse for people like me. The trend for making trucks bigger, less easily repairable, with fancier interiors and plastic everywhere is driven by this idiotic posturing, not by the average person who actually uses them as the tool they’re supposed to be

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think you can blame them for trucks being harder to work on, that's happening to all vehicles. Even tractors...

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I think I was specifically thinking if Rivian, with their monocoque built in such a way that if you sent the wing, the whole shell is pretty much a write-off, but what you say is irritatingly true.