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Posting this just because...it's legitimately funny.

Look At This Asshole’s Asshole Truck

https://defector.com/look-at-this-assho ... hole-truck
Look at this fucking thing.

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That’s Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders. Sanders has already used his new job to exploit newly enacted NIL and transfer portal rules on a scale that no other coach has thus far dared to attempt. Coach Prime, as his truck now prefers you call him, will not only radically alter the Buffaloes’ program with this approach, but he could also change how the entire sport of college football conducts business if he pulls Colorado out of the Pac-12 basement in the process. I wouldn’t bet against him succeeding. But if the end result is more Americans like him buying more trucks like this, I’d like him to get fucked with his own chrome hitch.

You already know that pickup trucks are horseshit. You know how bad they are for the environment. You’ve seen them needlessly clogging up every grocery store parking lot, rendering the two adjacent spaces next to them unusable. These cars do not fit into our national infrastructure, because they were never meant to. They were meant to be trucks, not goddamn Christmas presents.

But that’s exactly what the automotive industry has made them into. You know that full-size pickup trucks have replaced SUVs as work vehicles that are rarely used for work, and are now purchased by the Karens and Codys of the world almost exclusively as luxury cars. You’ve seen the “We Will Rock You” ads. God, those fucking ads. You know, either from reading up or from sheer gut instinct, that 75 percent of pickup truck owners in America use their trucks for towing once a year or less. You know every person who owns one of these things and doesn't use them for vital labor deserves to be force-fed a barrel of 93 octane.

Coach Prime is now one such pickup truck owner. Look at him, all proud of his shitass car like he went to its mom’s house to recruit it. The only time he’s gonna use the flatbed is when he runs over a child and has to quickly transport its corpse to the CU physical plant to have it discreetly cremated. The front grille of this thing was responsible for January 6th. And what consumer vehicle needs a fucking exhaust stack? Unless this “super” truck runs on hickory chips and can barbecue a whole hog to optimal succulence overnight, that exhaust stack is about as useful as Colorado itself has been to the Pac-12. This is a car for people who wish their car could be a gun. It should be outlawed. I hope Deion loses every fucking game he coaches by 1,000 points and CU students roll this thing down a mountain in protest. Fuck him, fuck this truck, and fuck truck people.
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Hopefully, it rolls coal.
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jfish26 wrote: Thu May 18, 2023 2:54 pm Posting this just because...it's legitimately funny.

Look At This Asshole’s Asshole Truck

https://defector.com/look-at-this-assho ... hole-truck
Look at this fucking thing.

Image

That’s Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders. Sanders has already used his new job to exploit newly enacted NIL and transfer portal rules on a scale that no other coach has thus far dared to attempt. Coach Prime, as his truck now prefers you call him, will not only radically alter the Buffaloes’ program with this approach, but he could also change how the entire sport of college football conducts business if he pulls Colorado out of the Pac-12 basement in the process. I wouldn’t bet against him succeeding. But if the end result is more Americans like him buying more trucks like this, I’d like him to get fucked with his own chrome hitch.

You already know that pickup trucks are horseshit. You know how bad they are for the environment. You’ve seen them needlessly clogging up every grocery store parking lot, rendering the two adjacent spaces next to them unusable. These cars do not fit into our national infrastructure, because they were never meant to. They were meant to be trucks, not goddamn Christmas presents.

But that’s exactly what the automotive industry has made them into. You know that full-size pickup trucks have replaced SUVs as work vehicles that are rarely used for work, and are now purchased by the Karens and Codys of the world almost exclusively as luxury cars. You’ve seen the “We Will Rock You” ads. God, those fucking ads. You know, either from reading up or from sheer gut instinct, that 75 percent of pickup truck owners in America use their trucks for towing once a year or less. You know every person who owns one of these things and doesn't use them for vital labor deserves to be force-fed a barrel of 93 octane.

Coach Prime is now one such pickup truck owner. Look at him, all proud of his shitass car like he went to its mom’s house to recruit it. The only time he’s gonna use the flatbed is when he runs over a child and has to quickly transport its corpse to the CU physical plant to have it discreetly cremated. The front grille of this thing was responsible for January 6th. And what consumer vehicle needs a fucking exhaust stack? Unless this “super” truck runs on hickory chips and can barbecue a whole hog to optimal succulence overnight, that exhaust stack is about as useful as Colorado itself has been to the Pac-12. This is a car for people who wish their car could be a gun. It should be outlawed. I hope Deion loses every fucking game he coaches by 1,000 points and CU students roll this thing down a mountain in protest. Fuck him, fuck this truck, and fuck truck people.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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KUTradition wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:04 pm https://www.telotrucks.com/
Impressive.

And, so ugly, kids will love it.
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KUTradition wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 8:04 pm https://www.telotrucks.com/
oh my...that....is absolutely hideous.
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I think they misspelled Tonka
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jhawks99 wrote: Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:57 am I think they misspelled Tonka
ha!
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Opinion:

I’d prefer an auto shop just to up their labor costs rather than double the costs of their parts. Stop pretending you bought that part for 350 dollars when the exact same part can be bought online for 180.
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I bought my car in June 2018. The factory warranty would have been 5/60,000. The 5 would have just passed, and I just went by 60,000 earlier this year also.

This week, a whole mess of warning lights came on, and the whole exhaust system has been taken off and may need replacing.

Thankfully, I bought the car “used” (it was a loaner used by the dealership owner), and negotiated for them to sell it Certified Pre-Owned (stretching the warranty to 7/100,000). So this nonsense will cost me $0.

But color me SHOCKED that the warning lights went off when they did.

The lesson I’ve learned is to do the scheduled maintenance for the end of your warranty BEFORE you trip the line; if your warranty ends at 60,000, you should do the 60k maintenance at 59,000. I woulda been stuck with a big bill.
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It's about time for new rigs in the TDub household.

Leaning toward 4runner (my preference) but also considering the XC60.

I also need a new work truck.

It is a terrible time for getting cars. There are very few used cars available and they are all incredibly overpriced.

Ugh.
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TDub wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:25 am It's about time for new rigs in the TDub household.

Leaning toward 4runner (my preference) but also considering the XC60.

I also need a new work truck.

It is a terrible time for getting cars. There are very few used cars available and they are all incredibly overpriced.

Ugh.
I have a 2017 XC90. Glad to share my thoughts, as the platform really hasn’t changed all that much (which isn’t a bad thing).
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jfish26 wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 11:38 am
TDub wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:25 am It's about time for new rigs in the TDub household.

Leaning toward 4runner (my preference) but also considering the XC60.

I also need a new work truck.

It is a terrible time for getting cars. There are very few used cars available and they are all incredibly overpriced.

Ugh.
I have a 2017 XC90. Glad to share my thoughts, as the platform really hasn’t changed all that much (which isn’t a bad thing).
yea I mean I'd take any reviews you got.

I like the Volvos but I've always liked the 4Runners too. We drive on a lot of dirt and gravel and churt rock roads. I dont know of that makes a big difference in either model other than needed heavier ply chunkier tires.
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I am not a Toyota fan boy, and the wife does have an XC40 Momentum R.
That Volvo is pretty bad ass...but in those driving conditions, I would go with the 4Runner.

(that really hurts me to say, but I understand not everyone is a Jeep fan)
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Maybe it's just me, but although they're both SUVs, the XC60 and 4runner seem pretty different.
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Shirley wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:59 pm Maybe it's just me, but although they're both SUVs, the XC60 and 4runner seem pretty different.
they are.

they just are the two were leaning towards.
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Overlander wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:51 pm I am not a Toyota fan boy, and the wife does have an XC40 Momentum R.
That Volvo is pretty bad ass...but in those driving conditions, I would go with the 4Runner.

(that really hurts me to say, but I understand not everyone is a Jeep fan)
I had a Tacoma I loved. I do think the Volvo is probably a higher quality vehicle.

A jeep doesn't really make sense for us and our set up currently.

But yea, I mean we've got roughly 3 miles on rock/gravel each way everyday taking kids to school. Wintery days we can go the long route and stay on pavement but our road, despite technically being a county road, almost never gets plowed. So, its either rock and gravel, or snow and ice, or both nearly daily for 9 months a year.

I think the Volvo would actually probably do just fine. But I like the higher clearance etc of the 4runner. I actually prefer the appearance and body style of the 4runner too.

Again tho, inventory is low and prices are high. So, we shall see what all shakes out.
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When I buy I car, (much like when buying a computer), I always worry that as soon as I drive it off the lot, I'll find out within a week or two that I missed out on a new innovation that I would like to have had. In an effort to help you avoid that heartbreak TDub, here's something that if I were in the market for a new car, I'd want to have known about:

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