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fuck trucks rule
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And that's a pretty big hatchback.
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It is also funny when people lift their work trucks, landscapers do this a lot.
I will always have a memory of me at the dump with a tiny 90s toyota pickup bed full of heavy brush wrestling with it next to a landscaper with a lifted dodge ram who was doing the same thing but every single thing they lifted they had to reach up and into the bed of their truck as opposed to me where I just picked the awkward bundles of brush up at a comfortable waist level....
I will never not find it hilarious that bros are always lifting their trucks to go offroad too and yet in terms of offroad capability the most important thing for clearance is the differentials ("pumpkins") on the axles which can get easily smashed... and lifting your truck doesn't change the height of those....
So now your allignment is probably fucked, who knows how breaking mechanics have changed at highway speed!? your suspension is no longer set up for the vehicle you have because you changed it.... and you have taken a machine thousands of people very carefully set up to make it work nicely together and jacked a random variable way off that erases all of that and messes with systems in the vehicle you can't even begin to predict off the top of your head.
edit oh yeah and the single most important thing about technical offroading beyond the basic requirements in suspension and drivetrain is the length of the wheelbase of the vehicle, long wheelbase vehicles are fundamentally severely limited offroad because they constantly bottom out, so modern large pickup trucks fail atrociously at the offroad step on design principles alone. A short wheelbase 2 door jeep wrangler is infinitely superior offroad to a long wheelbase pickup.