DH wants to spend his employee car allowance on this. I think it's tacky and low class
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Trade association, so American brand preferred, 40-something DH drives a large luxury SUV now but kids are older and we don't cart groups around anymore. He wants to switch it up and get this, a "luxury" pickup truck, which I think on a 1 to 10 tacky scale, is at least an 8 or 9. I think it's not only tacky, it's something for hillbilly pensioners in their 60s or 70s. And no, outside of Costco and Home Depot, we don't ever haul anything.
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| Good for him. Where is the issue? He works in a trade and there is room for 4/5. You sound really stuck up and snobby. Not your money. Its a perk of his work. Let him get it. |
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Do you live in this area? If so, it's tacky. If you live in Texas (or Bentonville), it's normal.
Get the new Chevy Blazer or a mid-sized Cadillac sedan. |
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That there is a mighty fine Loudon Limo, OP.
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The new blazer is a basic SUV. No one drives a Cadillac anymore. Where on earth do you live? |
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I don't think it's tacky or low class. I think it's strange and a little bit confusing when someone with no need for a serious pickup has one (I grew up where people use these for work), partially because I realize how expensive they are.
For me I'd be bothered by the fuel efficiency issue, but since he was in a "large luxury SUV" before this, I'm guessing that's not a consideration. I feel like he's playing out a bit of a cowboy fantasy, which is pretty harmless. |
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| These trucks always make me think of the show My 600 Lbs Life because the people coming for weight loss surgery always roll up in one of these. I guess they are roomy??? |
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| Someone else is paying for it. You’re not driving it. Why do you care? |
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+1. I think it's tacky and low class to classify things as tacky and low class. It makes as much sense as a gas guzzling SUV. |
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When my uncle retired 10 years ago, he noted that all his recently retired male friends bought luxury pick-up trucks. This was in the NYC suburbs of Connecticut.
After 30-40 years of being expected to wear white dress shirts every day, they wanted to get back to their western/cowboy dreams of yore. |
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Trade association; i.e. schmoozing bureaucrat expensing cocktails and steak dinners. |
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| My friend said when men have a midlife crises they get a convertible or a truck or they have an affair. My DH has a truck, let him get the truck. |
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How is this much different? Every other UMC travel sports Catholic school parent drives one of these: 
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Not sure if you actually live in DC but the only people there who drive black Suburbans/Yukons/Escalades are for-hire drivers. |
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Lol, clearly you have not met the big3 eastern european moms. |