FrankReynoldsCPA

Agreed

MattyG

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".

FrankReynoldsCPA

Found the yuppy

MattyG

Yuppie is an outdated term fyi. Definitely early 80s. Nobody under the age of 50 knows what a "yuppie" means. But yeah whatever. Here's something to make ya feel better. Have a special, special night now ya hear?

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.


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.

MattyG

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.

mmarshall

Good point on that 1984 handbook....can't really argue with that. And, yes, that's exactly what many of them looked like....right down to the running shoes LOL. I used to ride the subway with many of them.

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.

mmarshall

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

FrankReynoldsCPA

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.

SW17LS

I'm well under 50 and I certainly know what a yuppie is.

mmarshall

Technically, as a licensed professional, you're probably one yourself....though not with exactly the same type of job the classical Yuppies had working in a cubicle.

SW17LS

I have some yuppie tendencies sure.

BTW, "Yuppie" is a derogatory term, so thanks for that lol

mmarshall

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.

arentz07

Yeah, it's definitely derogatory. And I am not even 30 and I know that.

For a vehicle-related yuppie stereotype: the BMW 3-series, especially the lease special.

This. My coworker is a systems engineer who sits at a desk all day like I do, but in his spare time he takes his boat out and thus drives a big Ram pickup to work. 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. Then again, it is always important to realize people's day jobs and hobbies are often quite different. You need that escape. A big truck often enables that escape.

mmarshall

Well, that gets back to what I said about it maybe being derogatory today. I lived though the 80s when the culture started, and, from my memory, it wasn't considered so back then.......but, hey, times change, and, like I told Steve, if so, I'll stand corrected.

Yep....back then, a new Bimmer, in that culture, was THE car to have. And, most of them weren't particularly aggressive drivers (which the 3-Series later became famous for)...they just considered the car a status symbol, and didn't really use much of its handling prowess, particularly in the always-dense traffic in this region.



The Prius, from Day One (which, for the U.S. market, was in the summer of 2000) appealed mostly, but not totally, to environmentalists, college professors, celebrities, and schoolteachers. It was considered "The car for people who don't like cars" LOL