America has lost its f*****g mind.

Kecessa, 5 months ago

Drove one once, air brakes so can’t legally be driven by everyone (where I live anyway). The owner got it to bring fuel to his machinery, he got it used and it was cheaper than a similarly equipped F350…

n3m37h, 5 months ago

In the fist 10 min of owning it will use more gas than a week of driving a F150

Sagifurius, 5 months ago

That’s surprisingly untrue. They often have cat diesel engines, usually get very similar mileage to the pickups when empty.

n3m37h, 5 months ago

Wwwaaaaaa, I can’t take a fucking joke

Sagifurius, 5 months ago

What joke? That? Get bent

n3m37h, 5 months ago

Yes, that was a joke, if course its not gonna use a weeks worth of gas in 10 min, maybe 20 min, but not 10

Sagifurius, 5 months ago

You’re not funny.

n3m37h, 5 months ago

Get a sense of humor

BaroqueInMind, 5 months ago

American here. Calm down, it's a specialized vehicle that costs more than a hundred thousand dollars with an engine designed to tow extremely heavy industrial products for non-commercial use outside of what typical truck manufacturers sell for typical industrial shipping such as semi-trucks.

No, fucker, nobody is going to buy that and drive to McDonalds, you are delusional that Cleetus can afford that thing.

rbesfe, 5 months ago

These are novelty vehicles for the ultra wealthy. “Normal” pickups are already comically large and ripe for mockery, no need to hyperbolize

Dettweiler42, 5 months ago

This is a work truck for commercial use. The bed in this image is an aftermarket mod done by someone with more money than sense. OP is just outrage baiting.

www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/f650-f750/

LemmysMum, 5 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d91f262a-f77b-43c8-bae2-e18de733d8b8.webp

This is a work truck for commercial use, that is an overengineered abomination.

Dettweiler42, 5 months ago

That cannot support large equipment, has no PTO, cannot safely carry a cherry picker, will not pull a low-loader 5th wheel trailer with a full load, run a flat-bed with a winch for towing cars, or carry 7 CY of wet soil in a dumper.

Commercial operations buy things based on their needs. There’s a reason why the small truck you’ve posted is almost non-existent in the US.

LemmysMum, 5 months ago

There’s a reason why the small truck you’ve posted is almost non-existent in the US.

Yes, it’s called overcompensating. You think other countries don’t do infrastructure and heavy machinery?

wrath_of_grunge, 5 months ago

i live in the south, you never see these things in real life, and i'm deep in truck country.

these things are comically impractical. like you couldn't pull into a parking garage, or much of anything with this. you'd be parking and walking to wherever you were trying to go. they would likely hit the limit sign and overhang on a typical McDonald's.

the much more common trucks would be F150/250's.

xylogx, 5 months ago

The F150 is a great workhorse of a truck, but yeah a fuck-tun of people are fetching McFlurries with them.

Sagifurius, 5 months ago

I know where one of these is, has a for sale sign on it outside the heavy truck wash in Brooks, Alberta.

CarbonIceDragon, 5 months ago

As silly as this thing is, it’s not even remotely common. Pointlessly oversized trucks, sure, those are everywhere, but something this extreme is probably about as common as people driving an actual monster truck around on the road (I mean that’s basically what it is, just with an oversized body instead of oversized tires)

guyrocket, 5 months ago

I've seen a lot of trucks but never one of these IRL.

anonionfinelyminced, 5 months ago

I've seen these trucks with "not for hire" signs on them. If you have to add signage to your personal vehicle because it has been mistaken for a tow rig or commercial hauler, you might want to rethink your choices.

SamVergeudetZeit, 5 months ago

Damn, thats funny. XD

BolexForSoup, 5 months ago

What makes it worse is the fact that nobody has ever mistaken them for a commercial vehicle of any kind, but they fantasize about it happening and settle for implying it has “because dude you know it totally happens.”

sour, 5 months ago

if you fantasize about above scenario is time to get hobby

someguy3, 5 months ago

They’re certainly going for the Semi truck look.

M500, 5 months ago

I’ve seen that on work trucks though. Like, it’s owned by a private construction company and need to let people know that they don’t use it for anything else.

But I can also see people using this on their personal vehicle.

cmeu, 2 months ago

Badass

Kolanaki, 2 months ago

I’ve literally only seen F650’s in the wild that had big box trailers on them being used as commercial hauling vehicles. This picture of one is the only time I’ve ever seen one seemingly for personal use.

Colour_me_triggered, 5 months ago

I only saw two of these ridiculous vehicles it was outside a gas station in … The black forest.

jayrodtheoldbod, 5 months ago

The Ford F650 is part of a platform that, as you can see, is heavy-duty enough that you can put a proper dump bed on the back. It can be built many different ways, and the way that Ford will sell the vast majority of these trucks is that it will sell a cab and empty frame to another company, who will then build something else around it, some sort of heavy-duty thing that will see quite a lot of professional use, probably off-road more often than not. The massive ground clearance will look a lot more appropriate when this truck ends up where it belongs.

These things end up with buckets on the back, and used for powerline maintenance, or the entire back end becomes a steel locker for a bunch of welding and fabrication equipment. Once it is specced out properly, the size of it will make sense.

This model of truck is large and serious enough to also come with a proper, grown up diesel engine comparable to other heavy equipment engines in both weight and general durability. That it is the true purpose of the Ford F650, it is big and heavy enough to accept a respectable diesel engine for a proper dump truck, not the little baby diesels in the F150s, but one that is probably not available in anything smaller, a diesel that will actually last for 1 million km if maintained. It won’t even be a Ford engine, it will probably be a Cummins or another brand common in American heavy equipment, not passenger cars.

I am not trying to flex when I say this thing isn’t a toy. The transmission for it probably isn’t available in any other Ford pickup. They’re too small. Most of them will not spend a lot of time in the commuter lane, they’ll be on job sites all day. Even Americans don’t really drive the truck in the picture. The thing is in a class by itself.

Ford may as well sell a civilian version in case any Texas oil boys want the biggest truck on the block, but that just means adding a pickup truck bed to it, which goes with the rest of the cab in front. It certainly looks ridiculous. But somebody will want it to pull a really long horse trailer, so the bed back there is just a place to install a fifth wheel, the attachment point for a goose neck trailer. The owner will probably be somebody with a successful contracting business, somebody who can justify this thing as a proper business expense, since their other vehicle will say Caterpillar on it somewhere and has to also be towed on a trailer from job site to job site.

That is what the Ford F650 is for, and can do, it tows other heavy equipment around on public roads. It looks a lot less ridiculous with a skid loader and heavy trailer behind it. Park it next to a piece of proper construction equipment and it looks like a baby toy. It is small by heavy equipment standards, so that makes it maneuverable on construction sites.

The size of the current F150, the truck meant for average office workers to buy, that is the problem. It is unreasonable and no longer even fit for its original utility purpose. The modern F150 is too big, too expensive, and too cushy to be a farm truck, or a work truck on a job site. It is extremely common, overtall, and perfect for killing pedestrians.

The size of this thing, the F650, is not actually an issue. It is huge for defensible reasons, and it just looks crazy when you try to spec it out for civilian pickup use, because that’s fuckng crazy. It looks striking in the marketing material, for sure. We’re discussing the beast right now. Victory achieved for the marketing guy who insisted on offering this spec. Now even the Germans are aware of the truck.

But, oops, I can only assume that this entire “fuck cars” community is just the online version of those Just Stop Oil pricks, it’s all the idea of some PR firm who want to make public transport advocacy look like a position for shitty assholes with no respect for the needs of others. So I assume you don’t care about a proper explanation. I didn’t realize I was here when I started typing. Too late now.

I wish Reddit would stay on Reddit, instead of growing into completely different websites like some sort of mold. But anyway, the F650 is not actually a problem.

EtherWhack, 5 months ago

Here’s a one of those 3rd-party companies outfitting what it was originally intended for… (prices start at $1/3mil.)

www.truckmax.com/buy-vehicles-in-miami-fl?q=F-650…

merc, 5 months ago

What is absurd is that the high-numbered Fords used to be these enormous work-horse vehicles that weren’t much used for personal vehicles.

You can see an example here of a 1990 Ford F-450 outfitted as a Dump Truck Flatbed

But, compare that to the “entry level” Ford F-150 of today and you see how ridiculous trucks are now.

Sure, this one is a novelty piece, but the ones on dealer lots that people are actually buying today are bigger than the commercial dump trucks of just 30 years ago.

ehxor, 5 months ago

I’m 6’4”. I don’t fit in any other vehicle

Maybe they mean wide

capital, 5 months ago

Lived in the US my entire life. Never seen one of these in person once.

Chill.

Mentalystable, 5 months ago

I in Texas and ive never seen one either 👀 Not even joking

Sightline, 5 months ago

Same

EmperorHenry, 5 months ago

There’s plenty of americans that hate cars like that. I live in a rural area where anyone needs cars. But normally I just ride my bike from place to place. But at night I have my dog and my high powered flashlights on foot.

dog_, 5 months ago

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.

American here, I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone who uses something like this as their daily driver (I do not live in Texas. No one knows what goes down in Texas). I believe this vehicle is mainly for companies, and I believe (I could be wrong) that consumers can only go up to the F-250 or the F-350. Every time I’ve seen an F-650, it’s been a company vehicle. They’re also not very common here as well (at least where I am), and I believe I’ve only seen like 2 F-650s in my entire life. While that may be two too many for this community, I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen more. Apparently Ford has an F-750 as well, but I’ve only see one of them before, and it was very surprising. I hope this helps you understand! (At least from my point of view.)

Krauerking, 5 months ago

My father drives a vehicle like this as his daily driver and works as a high level tech employee in DC. He drives it hundreds of miles and brags it has better gas mileage than his previous shitty oversized SUV… Sooo… Take that anecdote as you will