• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s partially that, the fact that instead of making the trucks more efficient they made them larger to skirt the regulation, but another factor is the profitability of larger trucks. It doesn’t cost them that much more to make a massive truck vs a reasonable vehicle but the target market for unnecessarily large trucks is willing to pay hand over fist for them and so the manufacturers and distributors make more money per sale by a large margin.

    So when you see a large truck, don’t just think “someone who’s compensating” but also think “someone who got fleeced”.

    The roads would be safer without massive trucks, no one should be above ridicule.

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      2 months ago

      Just to be clear, small trucks weren’t good on gas either (I would know, I’ve had a bunch of them) and we’re at the point where full sized trucks and mid sized trucks get pretty much the same fuel economy. The shape of the vehicle is bad for fuel economy, it’s that simple…

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        2 months ago

        I could get 25 mpg average with my old ass stick ranger regularly going 75+ mph.

        You’re luck to average 19 mpg on a flat highway going 55-65.