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I love seeing Ram 6000 Max Diesel Rampage Pros who’s sole job is going to work and Walmart.
by csto12 3mo ago
I love seeing Ram 6000 Max Diesel Rampage Pros who’s sole job is going to work and Walmart.
- wlesieutre 3mo agoAnd when they pick up groceries they load everything onto the floor of the back seat because the bed is so high up you’d need a step ladder to use it
- Eueudhsbsj32 3mo agoI think the more important reasons are to prevent the groceries from sliding around in the bed and to protect them from the sun and precipitation.
- bakies 3mo agoDang, if only someone made an everyday car with a soft weather proof enclosed cargo area, possibly you could have the tailgate open up and away as well so it's not in the way. I would think Americans would love to have something more practical than a work vehicle
- antonvs 3mo agoSounds communist
- Eueudhsbsj32 3mo agoSure, I could buy a dedicated more efficient car for the rare days when there is zero risk of rain and I don't need to haul anything larger. After more than 1cm of rain, the last 500m of the steep dirt road up to my off-grid house in the mountains is completely impassable without 4wd. And I, or my family-in-law, regularly haul large trees, construction equipment, several 100kg of fertilizer, etc. in the truck bed. Buying a single vehicle, a pre-owned 4wd Ford Ranger made the most economic sense.
- wlesieutre 3mo agoStill see this in the ones with tonneau covers as if they intended to put cargo in the bed But who knows maybe it’s already full of stuff under there
- t-3 3mo agoI once met a homeless guy who kept a mattress back there.
- ssl-3 3mo agoThe Ram 6000 Max Diesel Rampage Pro: Because homelessness can be anyone's future
- stasomatic 3mo agoA friend with a RAM 1500 truck (a brute of a machine) bought a Harley in a neighboring state, I kept him company during the 8h ordeal. He rented a trailer because the bike was too heavy to hoist on the bed. Hillarious. It's just a style thing, folks, however silly. Why do Texans wear cowboy hats and boots?
- fultonn 3mo ago> hoist FWIW, transporting (even large) bikes in the bed of a truck is doable and normal. The typical way to do this isn't with a hoist. You just ride or walk it up a ramp and tie it down. ofc a Forester or RAV4 with a trailer is a far superior solution, especially for interstate driving where the trailer is less of an annoyance.
- stasomatic 2mo agoI’ve seen that on highways. This thing was a fire breathing monster though. King or California something or other. My buddy looked like a teenage jockey on it, but he is a life long rider. I’m sure it could be coerced, but was tough even with the low height U-Haul trailer.
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- bloomingeek 3mo agoSo true! My Ram 1500 was purchased to pull our travel trailer. It has the tow package and is factory raised up some. I'm kind of old, so I keep a three-step ladder in the bed so I can easily climb into it. Because of the poor gas mileage, I always wonder at why people drive these gas guzzlers as their main transport. But each to his own. (BTW, some claim safety, but it's probably fashion.)
- lostlogin 3mo agoThe safety aspect is intersting. The driver might be safer, but they are vastly more likely to kill anything they hit. https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2025/being-hit-suv-increases-likelihood-death-or-serious-injury https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2025/being-hit-suv-i...
- pepperoni_pizza 3mo agoWhich a selfish person is definitely okay with, might even like it.
- analog31 3mo agoAnother reason is to avoid letting the inside of the bed get scratched. I lived in Texas for a while, and people were that fussy about their trucks.
- prmoustache 3mo agoAs a european I would have thought having scratches in the bed and dirt on the bodywork would be a mark of pride.
- t-3 3mo agoNope, sign of (relative) poverty. Big trucks are expensive, and having one that has obviously never seen so much as a 2x4 is very effective class signaling. The people who actually need trucks to work with buy the cheapest option that gets the job done and wring every last dollar back out of it.
- rationalist 3mo agoFirst thing I did with my truck is get a spray-in bed liner.
- MisterTea 3mo agoTo be fair it would slide all over in the bed.
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- stackghost 3mo agoThe suburban people buying Ram 9001 Warlord Editions are not the target market for this truck.
- phoghed 3mo agoIsn’t the Ram Rampage a more compact non US market 4cyl variant? Like a maverick competitor?
- csto12 3mo agoI just made up a name. I know Rebel is a model that’s hilariously large. Don’t know about others.
- quickthrowman 3mo agoYes, the RAM Rampage is comparable to a Ford Maverick which is a unibody vehicle with a truck bed. The massive truck they likely meant would be a RAM 3500 HD super crew cab full size bed Cummins diesel dually rear axle with a vertical dual stainless steel smokestack exhaust kit for good measure. Which is essentially the largest truck you can get with a pickup bed from RAM, GM, or Ford; and they go for over $100,000 with options. There are even larger monstrosities with pickup beds built on top of 550/5500/Class 5 truck chassis which are basically a Canyonero from He Simpsons in real life: https://www.elevationoffgrid.com/ https://www.elevationoffgrid.com/ My favorite derogatory term for a vehicle type is ‘hausfrauenpanzer’ which means ‘housewife tank’ in German, which is used for a large SUV in Germany, lol.
- SoftTalker 3mo agoIt's honestly not that many. That's a very expensive truck for a daily driver. Most likely they have a large Airstream camper, horse trailer, or 5th wheel trailer or similar that they pull with it. Sure, some people just like a big diesel truck for ego reasons. But the cost of them limits most people's ability to endulge that.
- cosmic_cheese 3mo agoThat’s what one would expect, but in some parts of the US it’s not uncommon to see dilapidated houses with a shiny tricked out F-150 that’s never worked a day in its life sitting out in the parking lot… I think for some it’s an identity thing more than anything else.
- analog31 3mo agoI grew up in a suburb of Detroit, and when I went back to visit the family home a few years ago, every street was parked up on both sides with giant vehicles. It was a sight to behold. They weren't all the most expensive trucks, and many were noticeably older. Things in our town went up and down with the cycle of the car industry.
- antonvs 3mo ago> But the cost of them limits most people's ability to endulge that. Sounds like you’ve never been to the US. Thanks to cheap credit, every hillbilly and redneck has one of these. Which feels like about 60% of the population sometimes.
- SoftTalker 3mo agoI have lived in the US my entire life. And yes pickup trucks are part of the "country" or "rural" identity to some extent but most people who live in rural areas actually use their trucks as trucks frequently. They pull trailers, or use them to haul furniture, appliances, building materials, trash... all the stuff that has delivery services in the city but you have to do for yourself if you live in the country.
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- kylehotchkiss 3mo ago“Compensation” and extreme loneliness (cannot find my tribe without spreading its dumb peacock wings so they know I fit in)
- mothballed 3mo ago4 trips a year picking up a heavy excavator or tractor so you dont have to pay a tradesman a gazillion dollars and it pays for itself. "But just pay someone to haul it or rent a truck" lmao good fucking luck down my dirt roads
- hsbauauvhabzb 3mo agoSpeeding through school zones in a maximum impact people killer sure is fun too though
- apitman 3mo agoDrug store cowboys, aka "big hat; no cattle"
- MisterTea 3mo agoBut they have a clean, covered bed and sparking clean trailer hitch that's never seen a trailer tongue - just in case.