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ceci n’est pas une truck
Et les “kei trucks”? N’est-ce pas un truck?
Non, ce sont longues autos. /s
soo … a tiny yarddog?
Would be perfekt for jousting, if it wasn’t a drawing
It could probably hold 3-4 pallets, if it wasn’t a drawing
Cybertruck designer here: Just had a huge whipper (subscription based), some dishwasher style metal pannels, and we can sell these babies for 200k.
I’ve already preordered
I bought it before Elon went crazy btw
Not a Cybertruck you didn’t.
By the time those went on sale, his crazy was very much showing for all to see.
You can use that excuse in other Teslas, but not for a Cybertruck.
You mean before he stopped paying his PR team enough money for them to drown out the obvious craziness he was manifesting.
You joke but this is basically what a vintage British Bus looks like, except the non-cab side is for the Engine.
Multicar M24 too
there’s one parked in my street and for sale. it brings up a smile every time I walk by.
Probably bad aerodynamic. Don’t they use something like that on the airport? Since they don’t drive far, aerodynamics are probably not that important.
I’d imagine if you’re transporting long, heavy things, you wouldn’t want to drive too fast anyway.
Depends on what you consider too fast, is driving the speed limit outside of a town “too fast”?
Depending on the load, it might be, a lot of factors there.
Those aren’t used for transport, they are mobile conveyors for loading things into the belly.
It may be because a large enough load could quickly block the driver’s left-side mirror.
Oooh, another thing is that a heavy enough load may imbalance the vehicle enough to make it unsafe on turns.
Anyone see anything else?
Yeah, non uniform suspension or adaptive suspension might be important.
Probably not a good idea for 70 miles per hour but it might be a kick ass farm truck
That was my first thought. Either the load will make it uneven, or the lack of load will. Also, very weird wind resistence at speed.
But fine at low speed
Heavy enough people? Take a 300lb person in the front and a 200lb person in the back and you’re gonna have a bad time making a quick turn
Large enough load would escape when braking. No wall up front. Add one and visibility goes to shit.
The drivetrain doesn’t have a place to live. The nose of a truck holds the guts, freeing up space for load in the other half. Moving the guts to a cab-over would shrink the available engine size. Having all the power train to one side would require entirely new engineering to have 2 double length axles with no counter spinning force, so torque on the frame would twist the chassis up at the far point like a lever.
Or it would be underpowered to prevent it, effectively a kei truck engine in a full sized truck body. It is going to work much harder in some way to be as successful as existing trucks.
Flat six below deck
If it were electric, you could put the battery on the bed side.
You could easily squeeze 200 horsepower into a vehicle of this size.
the first-gen honda acty this drawing is obviously based on had its engine under the bed. i don’t see why that wouldn’t work here.
Cool! But I’m struggling with the title of the article. This cab truck was the most single ever? There were other cab trucks that were single, but this one was the most single of them all? Am I misreading this somehow, or is that title just weird?
Single cab trucks prioritize cargo space over seating space, generally having only a single bench seat that fits 2 adults and a child, or three often uncomfortable adults. This truck prioritizes cargo space to a much greater degree, having only a single seat, so it’s aggressively “single cab”.
Yeah I get that, but the wording of the title is weird right? They could have used different words making it a better sentence right? Or is it just me?
“This single cab truck has the highest bed to cab ratio.”
Like that for example?
Yeah it’s using the phrase “single cab truck” as a single adjective.
That is so wild!!!
1960 DeKalb Lumberjack
1960 DeKalb Lumberjack
Save the Clicks
Clearly designed by someone who hasn’t used a pickup truck to it’s real potential.
I wanted to get one of those tiny grandpa trucks when they were going for like $4k new, but apparently they’re illegal everywhere in the US. We’re stuck with $60k “entry level” monster trucks.
They’re illegal in some places, but I think they’re mostly fine. The deal is you can’t import a foreign made car unless it’s more than 25 years old, so the poor American car companies don’t have to compete.
The real scam is the importers get 'em in Japan for a couple hundred bucks at auction, haul 'em over here and sell 'em for 8k plus. They’re pretty rad, but parts can be kind of a bitch.
final destination vibes
I had a giant metal ladder fall off of the top of a work van and come right at my windshield while I was driving to my own wedding. i barely braked in time, but it had some serious Final Destination vibes. All things considered, I still think that the scariest thing that day was the final bill for the wedding.
good that it worked out at the end. otherwise might have been the worst day of of your wife’s life instead of the best. I’m quiet happy with my weddings Bill. we needed an official interpreter, because we have different mother tongues, which was like 100€ and that’s it.
We got pushed into having the large wedding that our parents wanted and what we were told we were “supposed to do”. Though it was beautiful, we both regret it. You are being much smarter about it.
i know that in many countries this is very often the case.
Yeah, this isn’t rocket surgery
Also, yay for an actual work truck, and not one of the weird oversize impractical monstrosities that so many people seem to swoon over these days
I’ve got some big ass American iron too, but it’s old and actually worth a shit. Never understood lifts you need and ladder for, and 3’ beds. Totally worthless vanity boosters.
Trucks are for doing shit, not hauling your sorry ass to the grocery store.
Exactly. Take a 1989s LWB F250 with crewcab for example - full length bed, carries a work crew, can do a reasonable amount off road, and can be absolutely beaten on for years.
That, I can respect.
not one of the weird oversize impractical monstrosities that so many people seem to swoon over these days
I heard a real kicker recently. It was something like
My truck looks like it shouldn’t be able to haul it but it can. Yours like it should be able to but can’t.
Best instagram roast of a modern truck guy I’ve ever seen.
They were arguing on a post about that guy’s massive grocery getter where he was defending the purchase, as usual.
Yup, someone on Lemmy mentioned about needing a pickup truck for work … I specifically remember that that same day I’d seem three workmen on a single 125cc scooter towing a trailer with tools and a bunch of 2x4s on it.
Hahah brilliant
My dad and his workmates just use a VW Sharan for construction work. By the stuff they do to it, it’s impressive that all 4 wheels are still attached.
It always baffles me when people say they NEEEEDED to buy a new work truck when I see how dad uses their sharan at work.
Yup. At work back home the security guys have new big pickups … they literally never ever ever have to carry stuff or go off road.
Meanwhile where I’m working under contract, the security guys have small capacity motorbikes yet manage to be more intimidating (their main purpose)
rocket surgery
Meh, it’s water under the fridge
I thought the roof was attached to the truck and it was like a mobile hangout
Chicken coop.
Make a little birdhouse in your truck
As someone else already mentioned, these do exist but you don’t see them on the road because it usually easier to just get a bigger truck without all the quirks.
Another case where vans are the superior utility vehicle: strap your long stuff onto your roof rack.
My minivan can carry items up to 17ft long on the inside, if you arrange it properly, going all the way from the back gate to the windshield.
1st gen Chevy volt will hold a 10" item that way :)
