this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

He’s just popped out to retrieve the wives from Furiosa.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tamsin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

It is!
Like, this is what baby trucks look like before they grow up :)

[–] pepsi_not_coke@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

I'd end up pulling it too far back and it would snap.

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

It's absurd and hilarious and I love it.

But is it just a stock Tacoma with big wheels or did they do more body mods to it? It looks way smaller than even older style trucks like the bed was shortened or something but that could just be an illusion due to the size of the wheels.

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago

Say what you will. Make the wheels smaller and you have a pretty useful tuck if you're in the city.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Same and I have no interest in a truck. It just looks so functional and useful.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's got to be like a 3 foot bed? I just don't get how that's useful vs a hatchback with the seats down?

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Completely open top, much less restriction on what you can put in. Hatchbacks can't do that. It's just a large trunk. Presumably can also sustain heavier loads.

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm now imagining a bundle of 2x4s vertically sticking up 6 feet.

I think I've only once or twice had something not fit the hatchback because the roof was too low. And those items wouldn't have fit in a 3-4 foot bed either. Plus a proper hatchback should have roof racks to put oversize cargo on anyway.

I'm not arguing a 5+ foot bed isn't better than a hatch (my 97 Taco with 6 foot bed comes in handy sometimes), but the shorty beds make me laugh.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I should probably have mentioned at some point that I work in film production, so the possibilities with a vehicle like this for me are endless lol Especially given how small it is compared to your standard pick up truck in the US. Can squeeze this thing holding a lot of weirdly shaped shit into a lot of places.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Furniture and other large objects won't fit into a hatchback

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

Being able to load dirt or yard waste is a biggie. You can hose it out when you’re done.

That said a trailer hitch on a hatchback gets you more versatility than this.

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[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

A stump truck

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 35 points 1 day ago

Gotta admit, though, it looks like some nice bodywork. ATBGE

[–] mattbnr@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

I don’t hate it….in fact I kinda like it

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This looks like the truck equivalent of a really short guy with huge muscles and a perpetual scowl, who always keeps his shoulders directly above his knees and his hands in karate-chop pose while he walks.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

You know, it absolutely does. It does look like him..

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Steal a manhole cover, paint it to look like a penny.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just realized that I had to think for a while about what a penny looks like. God we banned them here in Canada so long ago...

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And I'm so happy we got rid of them.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You sound like someone who hasn't seen the glorious ATF violation know as penny coin shot.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Two patents exist for quarter-shooting pistols designed for shooting coins at toll booth baskets from 1965 and 1988. Source: wikipedia.

This is the world AnCap libertarians want.

Oh no I was referring to cutting pennies into halves and quarters, then putting them into 12 gauge shells.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to pull it backwards until it disappears

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is unironically awesome. Needs a bigger lift to give room for suspension travel though

[–] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That thing has to turn weirdly.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago
[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Looks like if you accelerate too quickly it will do a backflip.

Probably turns on a dime and crawl and fit around hazards offroad like a champ

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 0 points 20 hours ago

Fun fact, if you take the pullback wheel thing out of a toy car, wind it up and let it go, it jumps around all over the place. When I was a kid in the 80s we called them "crazy wheels."

I'll bet this little stub truck does the same thing lol

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Look at the DUMPY on that thing

[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

World's biggest RC car.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

A monster truck the size of a minivan

[–] ILoveDurians@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

Truck equivalents of the Airbus A318 babybus aren't real, they can't hurt you

Truck equivalent of the Airbus A318 babybus:

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

Lil, I was just wondering today if something like this existed. A truck with the small two-seat cab and a bed that matches today's truck aspect ratios.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Mileage... 3 Mpg...yes

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