The 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD Unveiled....unfortunately
#76
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#77
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They're all universally fugly, in an attempt to get the "macho" element as a selling point. These trucks are getting more and more ridiculous. The Ford F250 looks like someone went to a 1950 dentist and got chrome braces. The GM looks like a skyscraper. Who's living under that hood, an NBA team? And Dodge's 2500 appears to need nasal drops for those ridiculous nose slits on the dental work.
Somewhere in some design school and a truck design studio, people are told that macho, swaggering yahoos need gigantic absurd "faces" on their utility trucks to project "power", "aggression".
Somewhere in some design school and a truck design studio, people are told that macho, swaggering yahoos need gigantic absurd "faces" on their utility trucks to project "power", "aggression".
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Originally Posted by BrettJacks
Found the yuppy
#80
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Actually, more the later 80s, after the High-Tech industry really started to get cranked up. The term "Yuppie" meant "Young, Urban, Professional"...generally a new (for that period) class of workers who spent most of their working day sitting inside of cubicles, pushing buttons on a keyboard. Their stereotype-vehicle, BTW, was a brand-new BMW 3 or 5-series.
OK......so I'm no Spring Chicken LOL.
Gotta confess, I haven't seen that one before (a necklace of beer cans). But then, again, I don't drink.
Nobody under the age of 50 knows what a "yuppie" means.
Here's something to make ya feel better. Have a special, special night now ya hear?
#81
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Actually, more the later 80s, after the High-Tech industry really started to get cranked up. The term "Yuppie" meant "Young, Urban, Professional"...generally a new (for that period) class of workers who spent most of their working day sitting inside of cubicles, pushing buttons on a keyboard. Their stereotype-vehicle, BTW, was a brand-new BMW 3 or 5-series.
#82
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Well here's the reference manual, lol. It's a 1984 paperback edition of course, but then again the poster that replied to me might like that. Of course we know that the Ford F150 is the new yuppie-mobile is it not? You spend on King Ranch and duded up versions that cost more than any Bimmer, after all.
Here in my area, from what I remember, the classic Yuppie culture was in full-swing by around 1987 or 1988, and new BMWs were multiplying on the roads faster than they could be driven off the dealer-lots.
#83
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Back to the Silverado, Chevy is also announcing new Silverado Heavy-Duty models for larger chassis-cabs. They have a somewhat more conventional-looking front end than the light-duty pickup, and are considered 2019, not 2020 models.
https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-v...do-chassis-cab
https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-v...do-chassis-cab
#84
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My truck is actually an XLT, which is not one of the fancy $$$ models. And I beat it up off-road and hauling stuff.
Although my day job is in an office as a CPA.
Although my day job is in an office as a CPA.
#85
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I'm well under 50 and I certainly know what a yuppie is.
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#88
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It wasn't considered derogatory back in the late 80s and early 90s, when the culture around here was at its peak. If it is considered derogatory now (which, if so, I'm not aware of), sorry, I'll stand corrected.
#89
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For a vehicle-related yuppie stereotype: the BMW 3-series, especially the lease special.
#90
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For a vehicle-related yuppie stereotype: the BMW 3-series, especially the lease special.
Then again, most of my possibly-"yuppie" coworkers drive things like Priuses, compact crossovers like the Nissan Rogue, and typical mainstream sedans... So perhaps he's an outlier.