I am walking down beautiful California street minding my own wishes - buying a new lens for my camera at good ol' K&S - when all of a sudden the roar of Thor comes barreling down the street at me faster than a film student to a Wes Anderson movie.
It was then that I thought to myself "Why the hell are people still wanting to drive these gods of gasoline consumption."
Not only is it ridiculous that 6' Fords are becoming beanstalks and rising to the moon its the fact that their manufacturers are putting exponentially more horsepower into them. Average horsepower for heavy-duty trucks has risen 50% in 20 years. I'm sorry but unless there has been some sort of gravity increase brought on from global warming (that these trucks didn't really help out), or payloads increasing in girth (I'm pretty sure dirt still weighs the same...but maybe not anymore due to the the new spike in gravity) these things do not need 700 horses to do the job that 200 are more than happy to do (if fed properly).
In the future the only people driving these Dual cab, duly tire set, extended bed, light racked, sky-jacked, decapitators with a picture of the rocky mountains on the side and on the rear window will be the same jerks who say Michael Jackson is just "misunderstood."
