One of these pulled up at my workplace today and I can not get over how stupid they look and that got me thinking, who thought making a shittier version of an Odyssey was a good idea.

This thing can’t be useful as a truck, can’t seat as many as a van, costs $50k and burns more gas then an Odyssey (10l/100km hwy vs 8l/100km hwy). Does anyone who drives these things think they are hot shit?

  • baseless_discourseEnglish
    52·
    11 months ago

    Is it because they are expensive? So this is the same psychology as rich college kids buying race cars in congested cities?

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      11 months ago

      Yes. Tons of people buy giant obnoxious overpriced pickup trucks as status symbols.

      • M0oP0oOPEnglish
        43·
        11 months ago

        But it looks like shit! A minivan with a welded on trailer deck out the back would be more sexy!

        • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          They’re not buying it for the looks… The more useless it looks the more it becomes a fancy way to announce that you’re rich.

          Some people actually think anyone else cares about this dumb shit.

          • M0oP0oOPEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            I am not just bitching about the looks (they are silly but that is subjective). My issue is that this is what now passes for a “reasonable” small truck.