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On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:04:21 +0200
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

> Yes, but Tesla and its owner are so proud of it that they want to
> sell it everywhere. And of course, it is a remarkable car; I mean, it
> gets a stare.
> 
> The other big pickups, I know nothing about them.

That whole class of vehicles could be called "compensators" - things
designed less because anyone *needs* them as because there's a whole
population of desperately insecure not-so-young men trying to prove
something, and the only way they can think of to do it is with a
Freudian display of expensive, ugly status symbols.

The funny part is that the Melonmobile can't even fulfill *that*
function properly; it costs an arm and a leg, but where the F-250 or
the Ram 2500 have a distinctively large-predator kinda design language,
it just looks like a blown-up Micro Machines toy. I've driven past one
of the local cretins in my '73 Volkswagen, and I'd have felt more
intimidated by a Winnebago.