The communist Justin Trudeau wants to tax carbon π‘
But I need this vehicle to buy groceries π‘π‘
AX THE TAX π‘π‘π‘
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my friend from ontario says:
"This might be for folks who work on oil rigs (Edmonton is close to several), a vehicle like this means they can travel as a full crew. It's still terrible but that might explain it."
They could get a crew van, fit more in it, and still fit in a standard parking spot.
Probably also quite a few thousands of dollars cheaper.
Fuck you, vans are gay and you're stupid cuck. /s
That said, I recently saw a guy that bucked the trend and pimped his family van instead of going full truck. Lowered suspension, wider wheels, hot vinyl and a spoiler. Looked pretty good tbh.
So like custom conversion vans in the 70s and 80s?
Gotta paint a big wizard on the side for full effect
I guess I'm old enough to remember when vans were cool. π
Yeah they were! So much more room than a sedan for long distance trips, and the one we got as a kid had a table you could set up in the back to play games while on the road!
Don't forget all the airbrush art on them!
Yeah. Don't recall whether it was, I think it was a Sienna.
I thought the same, but there may be a very specific combination of conditions where this could make sense: bad roads where ground clearance is needed, no sharp curves that require shorter wheel base, need to take 8 people and need to take their tools/materials. but probably they did just because they could
Honestly, those conditions sound like pretty much exactly what I'd expect working oil in Alberta, and given the cost to make that horrific of a modification, it wouldn't suprise me if it was something used for work.
It also would not suprise me if it was some jerk with more money than sense, esspecially as this wouldn't necessarily conflate with the first.
Yeah this seems way too expensive to not have a specific use. I would assume this vehicle needs to transport 6+ people and also a bunch of stuff. There are plenty of vanity trucks you can buy without customizing a third seating row, that's easily a 6-figure job.
Most likwly you could just buy two trucks for the same cost.
Oil patch boys came from away and they used to make 1/4 of their present income on the patch, where there is little to spend money on.
Please.
I'm from Alberta. This is just big dick energy.
Besides, there are 4x4 crew vans with lift kits that the oil sands mines use to address the issues you're talking about. Those are most certainly cheaper than this monstrosity, and if it was a work thing he'd have to have company decals on it.
You probably meant small dick energy.
I'm not up on my dick energy idioms, nor do I care to be.
The guy's is a douche canoe and that's all there is to it.
No ground clearance on van, gona get stuck in the mud. less payload on van, can't just drop a skid of what ever or extra long things like hydraulic cylinders into a van with out akward fucking around. less tow capacity on van, notice the tow bar on the back... What are you gona put a welder, diesel cans, gas cans, pales of hydraulic oil for equipment/ slip tanks, pumps and what not into the van too with the occupants? What about the greasy and oily ass clothes. Throw em in the van too? So they stain and fill the cab with VOCs?
This is a purpose built one off, and alot of you are out of touch with how work gets done. Not evey job is hauling standard 8x4 drywall. Alot more trades work than just slinging plaster around.
You seriously going to tell me this thing was "purpose-built" for anything more than luxury for the occupants? There are vastly more efficient ways to accomplish anything this thing can do, the only difference is that there's a tiny bit less legroom. Literally every single one of those things can be accomplished with a modified/lifted van and maybe a trailer.
This is totally a male enhancement device due to the lift and frame length. It's weak in the frame and real regular off-road use will crack it.
It's a fucking joke just like the joke that drives it. "Look at me! I'm such a tough manly manchild. My beard is huge and I listen to country music even though I've never owned a cow and live in the suburbs."
Real working 4x4/dually trucks tend to be factory height (little higher than factory rear wheel) as you don't want to lift heavy shit higher than you have to. They're also beat to hell because they do real work.
Comments like this are so ridiculous. Do you really think nothing ever gets build in Europe because people use vans and buses instead of emotional support vehicles? Canada is just another country, not fucking Mars
Didn't you get the memo, Canada is often colder than the martian equator. 95 percent of the canadian population lives in greater toronto, the lower mainland of BC, and a couple other cities. The other 4 million people live in an area almost as big as russia.
Vehicles like this one are fairly common in the Alberta oil industry areas, and while they are overbuilt, they're driving on roads that are worse than the ones through the old Bundeswehr training areas around Munster...if you took a Volkswagen transporter to a job site there, first you'd rip off the exhaust system, quickly followed by snagging the suspension components on something.
Here's a picture taken of an oilfield truck from Montana. (Sorry for the r link.)
Thanks for the informative comment. The linked photo looks like a much smaller truck than by OP. It would still be ridiculous on asphalt.
he doesn't disagree, he notes it's still bad but that might explain what we're seeing here, kind of.
have they never heard of a bus?
A bus... to the oil rig?
how does a car to the oil rig make more sense lmfao
In Canada? I'm speking from my brief time in ontario - they have busses but public transport lines aren't all nicely interconnected.
also, swed nyet
okay hold on, do other countries not have buses that aren't operated as public transport? do hockey teams in canada take a whole fleet of cars to matches or do they just fly for half an hour?
here in sweden at least it's completely standard to just buy or rent a bus when you have like 8+ people who need to go somewhere.
they're operated as public transport, it's just that lines aren't well connected.
it's nowhere near as viable to rely on public transport in north america as it is in europe.
but i'm specifically not talking about public transport, i'm talking about a company renting a bus for shuttling its employees.
that would require the company to care about its employees. you're talking about north america here bubs
Oh? And that also means they have to take up 4 parking spots...?
i mean yeah, probably? lol
don't get it twisted, I'm not defending this monstrosity
I can guarantee each employee drives one of these (or similar) and do not carpool to work or from office to site.
you might be on to something!
Crew? Naw. They drive their own rigs.
But someone who has a poor understanding of birth control because god said so, yes.
That entirely depends. There's lots of rig crews pile in one or two vehicles at the hotel yet.
all aboard the petrolsine!