Then you end up with the smaller trucks we already have on the market or a Maverick that has a bed so small that it’s not that useful for actual truck stuff…

“I forget everything so I guess nothing’s important?”

“Well, in the grand scheme of things…”

https://www.wardsauto.com/regulatory/chery-transcab-suzuki-carry-lcvs-flunk-safety-tests

I had already shared a link about modern Kei trucks in another comment, they get a safety rating of zero even with modern safety features.

Which was a reply to someone saying they want something like the second one from the left, which is an engine forward truck with 60% bed, which has never existed.

A Jeep FC-170 was 60% bed, but that’s like saying “Just get a Hino and have someone make a bed for it and daily drive it”.

The only thing that’s higher than 60% and that could still be considered a non commercial offering is a VW Bus Transporter at 61% bed since the nose is flatter (engine at the back) but it still doesn’t match “the second from the left” as asked by that other person.

I don’t know where they found the 64% bed truck and outside of commercial offerings (so it doesn’t have to meet regular safety standards) there’s no way to get a modern version of a truck with 60% bed unless it has a ridiculously long bed.

Someone posted the accidents stats and Canada is way lower than the USA even though buying habits are the same, so trucks aren’t the issue from that perspective.

But we’re comparing getting a Kei truck instead of regular truck in this part of the conversation so it actually does make sense to discuss the safety question.

The conversation you want to have is elsewhere in this post.

Doesn’t prevent some of them from doing it and just pulling out, they believe that nothing will happen because nothing has happened yet…

If I’m not mistaken I live in the place where vasectomy is the most common and some people still think like that. Talk to your the people around you and you’ll see.

If you can’t accept the fact that we don’t have a proportional system then the only problem here is you. FPTP requires that people vote strategically, it sucks, but that’s what it is.

I’m just as mad at the people who don’t vote at all, don’t worry, but if you vote and only end up splitting the vote so your vote ends up counting as a vote for the person completely opposite to who you want in power instead of the compromise that actually has a chance to get elected then you’re just as much part of the problem. Not realizing that means people around you (and potentially yourself) end up suffering. You can think it’s me guilt tripping you all you want, if you take the time to think about it you already know it to be true.

Toxic masculinity, all my friends that don’t want to be convinced have the worst excuses possible but most times it’s about not wanting to feel like a lesser man.

From experience you better do it while you’re single instead of waiting until you’re with someone and having to deal with the stress it will cause them when it becomes official…

Yeah… But no.

https://www.wardsauto.com/regulatory/chery-transcab-suzuki-carry-lcvs-flunk-safety-tests

CoE pickups haven’t been a thing outside of commercial vehicles for decades, hell, the VW vanagon might have been the last one in the 80s for the North American market…

Look at the original post, none of them are CoE.

The depictions are actually wrong as there’s never been a 60+% bed truck that wasn’t a cab over.

Ford E-transit with a bed, you can get one made, that’s what they’re meant for with the cab+frame option.

I’ll just wait for your next excuse now.

What’s funny is that we have the same buying habits in Canada so maybe the issue isn’t trucks after all

You can’t buy one because it has never existed, no truck ever had a 40/60 cab to bed ratio except for custom jobs made from using the front of a van with a truck bed.

And you won’t get it with either party that actually can get elected but your life or the life of people in need will get a whole lot worse with one of those parties. If you don’t care about that and live somewhere where the Conservatives can potentially get elected then go ahead and split the vote by voting NDP and I hope you sleep well at night knowing that some people are getting deported because of people who decided voting for their favorite party was more important than protecting other humans.

Yeah, let’s compare different types of truck so we can complain about them

Always the same shit with you guys

A current gen regular cab long box F150 (you know, the same thing as the first one in the picture) measures 228" so 42% bed.

A 1995 F150 regular cab long box was 213" long, so 45% bed.

1983? 208" long.

1975 (first generation)? 205", 47% bed

And you know what, just for the heck of it, the 60s F100 was 202" long, that’s 47.5% bed! The only way you got it to 50% bed was without a rear bumper and that was 50% on the dot, I don’t know where they got their first truck but as far as I can find it’s never existed!

Inline 6 were the smaller engine back in the day for trucks, no way they could make the hood super short.

Trucks, especially full sized ones haven’t changed in size that much, they’re mostly taller so it makes them seem much bigger than they were, the rest is mostly so they’re actually safer than the thin boxes of the past.

Go watch a crash test for a Kei truck

Edit: at 0:50 https://youtu.be/roLcNwRi1Sk