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America has lost its f*****g mind.
(feddit.de)
Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did'nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the "biggest, baddest Truck on the road" for the everyday American. Are you guys serious?! Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry? Americas bloodiest wars have been fought in the middle east to secure oil, bombing nations to rubble. And all, for this bullshit? The excess, waste and decadence is mind boggling to me and people on Reddit seriously justifying this by "you know dude I'm 6,4ft. I don't fit in any other vehicle" makes me go up the wall.
These exist but are very rare. This is a commercial truck meant for things like small dump beds, bucket trucks, etc. There are a few shops that specialize in doing these types of custom builds for people who have way too much money and too little sense. There is a shop in my town that does this sort of work and they have something like this as a promotional tool but kost if their customers don't get anything this extreme.
In fairness, there was a small window of time in the late 2000s where GM and International marketed similarly-sized medium-duty commercial truck conversions directly to insecure men with micropenises -- but yeah, turns out it's a very niche market, and they discontinued those products very quickly. Now it's exclusively the domain of third-party upfitters to give drivers that "ultimate feeling of superiority" that only an apocalyptic amount of conspicuous consumption can provide.
No, seriously, that's from a review of one of these monstrosities:
I remember those. Seems like they were only on the market for a short time. My company has one of these for our large bucket truck.