Do people drool for big trucks?

[screw'd up]

I wouldn't trade my Ranger for ANYTHING! It has towed trailers, hauled stuff, until my ex flipped my 4wheeler tires I used to fit and tow that to go out riding, it goes everywhere I want it to and has yet to get stuck with me driving it I bought my B2 with starting a family in mind cause it has more room but when I was babysitting for a friend, my Ranger had a carseat in the passanger seat, a booster seat in the lil middle seat and me as the driver just fine. I'm not saying that big trucks don't have thier advantages but everyone just had their own view.
Most the big lifted trucks around me are driven by young guys with mommy and daddys money and they are a true definition of pretty boys who have WAY to BIG of egos! My ex had a lifted truck on 35's was his usual but liked to put on the 38 boggers for trailriding and it was just so his buddies would notice. His truck didn't make this girl drool over it, his truck actually locked me inside the 1st time I rode in it and it took me 10 min to finally ram the door open and it only ever did it to me.

 

[3.0ranger1227]

I love driving the dually at work. Bone stock 2011 4wd chevy 3500 duramax LTZ. You can hook it up to just about anything and still do 80 cross country at 11 mpg.

But around town I would never trade my ranger for it. Turning radius is awful. It has power for days but there is a delay while it spools up when you're unloaded. Finding parking spaces anywhere other than in TX is impossible.


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[FritzTKatt]

Sounds like that's one of the reasons he is your ex, not your current.

I hate the big trucks, with tiny little street tires, or the paper thin ones. But most of all, ones that have never seen anything but the street.

My ranger is an excellent vehicle and just like Joe Diffie says, "You can set my truck on fire, and roll it down a hill, but I still wouldn't trade it for a coupe-deville"

 

[PanamaExpat]

You can lay sheets of plywood etc in a Ranger if you cut the planks the owner's manual says and put them in the slots.

My pickup is a 2wd Chevy of the '73-87 style with a 6.2 Banks turbo diesel. It's a crewcab, though, and is higher than a 4x4 Ranger. It can carry a cube of brick, block or sand without a problem. It pulls a track loader on a trailer that the tongue weight (empty trailer) would exceed the GVW of a Ranger.

I also have a 15-passenger E350 van with a 7.3 powerstroke. From the driver's seat of the van, you can see over 4x4 pickups.

And I have a schoolbus, converted to an RV, that can see over every small vehicle. It's big--20,000# rolling weight. I'm not too terrified of 4x4s when I'm driving the bus. Every time I crowd toward them, they veer away. It's really amazing. No matter how tough you are by assembling a huge 4x4, a bus jerking into your lane will turn you into a pussy. psychology in motion.

Did you ever stop to think that the reason they veer away from an old school bus is that they have so much money tied up in the truck they don't want to have all the work they have done ruined by crashing into a vehicle that is worth tops $3500 and is probably carrying minimum liability or is completely uninsured? Not to mention that when you have a nice truck you don't want to have it off the road in the garage waiting to get it fixed.

 

[Jraymer360]

No problem, I can be as well. It might be all that exhaust from Motown affecting ya.

That and the ghetto people with their way too big rims. ( yeah I'm using a rash generalization I don't care)

 

[johnday]

That and the ghetto people with their way too big rims. ( yeah I'm using a rash generalization I don't care)

I just got back up here after visiting my wife down in Garbage, I mean Garden City, for the weekend.
Now, I like trucks, as long as they're not Dodge or GM. I get a little private laugh when down there and see all the big bad trucks. I'll bet 90% of them have never even seen a dirt road. But, some of them are "pretty".
I've been offered some decent money for my Ranger a number of times lately, but, nope, I like it too much.