# What is this huge SUV - truck... thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 10, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912 "2013-10-10T19:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/21 "2013-10-12T13:17:40Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Don’t get me wrong, I’m a car guy. I love cars I love messing with cars I love looking at cars. > If I see a Lamborghini or Ferrari I have no thoughts about the driver. > But this truck was in a whole different realm. > It was too tall to: > Off-road due to a center of gravity about 8 feet in the air > Drive into a parking garage > Take on dates > Go through drive thrus. > Drive in traffic ( would not be able to see cars or pedestrians either in front or to the rear. > Park easily (or at all) > Haul anything in the bed > > It was totally useless except for the look at me factor. > > So at some point you have to ask yourself, what drove the owner to build such a vehicle and why? To show off? Obviously. To show what a man they are? Probably. To compensate for some shortcoming? (perceived or real) not really a stretch to think that. > > Now while I have a certain level of admiration for the effort to build such a shitbox I would much rather have the large pile of $ it took to build it. This thing makes the wildest exotic look like a Prius. > > Now maybe the owner needed a car with that much ground clearance due to having a 6’ dick, but I doubt it. Since that truck has a Caterpillar logo front license plate, a Caterpillar logo in place of the Ford logo and is in Caterpillar colors I’m guessing its a custom job for the company. Not an indication of penis size. Or maybe he really likes Caterpillar. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/22 "2013-10-12T13:23:41Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Since that truck has a Caterpillar logo front license plate, a Caterpillar logo in place of the Ford logo and is in Caterpillar colors I’m guessing its a custom job for the company. Not an indication of penis size. Or maybe he really likes Caterpillar. I was describing the truck I saw not the one linked above in pics. The pics above are totally sedate by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/23 "2013-10-12T13:29:55Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Since that truck has a Caterpillar logo front license plate, a Caterpillar logo in place of the Ford logo and is in Caterpillar colors I’m guessing its a custom job for the company. Not an indication of penis size. Or maybe he really like Caterpillar. Caterpillar builds engines for that type of vehicle, and I’d guess he has one under the hood. Wanting everyone to know that a maker of giant earth-moving equipment also made the motor in his grocery-getter sounds to me like an excellent indicator of potential penile compensation. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/24 "2013-10-13T23:53:12Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > Like **Johnny LA** said, it’s an F-650, but the pickup bed would be a custom addition. Medium-duty trucks like this usually leave the factory with just the cab and frame rails and get sent to separate companies that make them into delivery trucks, flatbeds, tow trucks, or whatever. Maybe there’s someone out there slapping pickup beds onto new ones, or else it could be a custom build. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be that hard to custom fit a bed off of some puny lesser truck like an F-350. Getting back to the OP pics, it doesn’t look to me like any kind of custom bed, it’s just a crew-cab (4-door), 4x4, dual-wheel pickup truck with a matching cap on the bed. And some extra (IMO silly looking) do-dads… ---
**Author:** ![FoundWaldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@FoundWaldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoundWaldo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/25 "2013-10-14T02:24:18Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Getting back to the OP pics, it doesn’t look to me like any kind of custom bed, it’s just a crew-cab (4-door), 4x4, dual-wheel pickup truck with a matching cap on the bed. The bed has to be custom because Ford doesn’t sell F650s with a bed. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/26 "2013-10-14T12:54:10Z")
I think the crew-cab is a custom modification too, I don’t see that as an option on [Ford’s page](http://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/f650-f750/). The F650 looks [like this](http://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/f650-f750/trim/f650sdproloaderxltdiesel/) when it leaves the Ford factory. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/27 "2013-10-14T13:05:09Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > Caterpillar builds engines for that type of vehicle, and I’d guess he has one under the hood. Wanting everyone to know that a maker of giant earth-moving equipment also made the motor in his grocery-getter sounds to me like an excellent indicator of potential penile compensation. Cite? I understand these vehicles irritate you. They do me too. Same with loud bass stereo systems. But I think making tired jokes about their penis size is juvenile and frankly unsupported and probably wrong. So, is there any evidence that “big trucks = small penis” My thought is that the trucks irritate you enough that you want to insult them in some way, and this meme fits the bill ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/28 "2013-10-14T13:26:23Z")
This is about the amount of lift, not the overall size of the truck, but according to [this article](http://www.thescoopnews.com/news/articles/173/survey-truck-owners-with-big-lift-likely-to-have-small-penis): > [@](#): > > A recent survey by Car & Truck magazine concluded that there exists an indirect relation between the lift in a truck and the size of the owner’s penis – meaning that as the size of the lift increases, the penis size decreases. Although the relationship had been previously speculated by much of the American population, the survey marks the first documented evidence of the correlation. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/29 "2013-10-14T13:41:18Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > This is about the amount of lift, not the overall size of the truck, but according to [this article](http://www.thescoopnews.com/news/articles/173/survey-truck-owners-with-big-lift-likely-to-have-small-penis): Well it might be something…but…you might want to check the veracity of your source… its clearly labeled a satirical magazine ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/30 "2013-10-14T14:37:21Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > Cite? > > I understand these vehicles irritate you. They do me too. Same with loud bass stereo systems. > > But I think making tired jokes about their penis size is juvenile and frankly unsupported and probably wrong. > > So, is there any evidence that “big trucks = small penis” > > My thought is that the trucks irritate you enough that you want to insult them in some way, and this meme fits the bill I think everyone understands that it’s tongue-in-cheek and that there is (probably) not literally a correlation between penis and truck size. It’s basically a modern day variation on the Napoleon complex which is also probably not literally true. It’s mostly just shorthand for a whole slew of macho posturing-- if you say “small penis truck” everyone knows what you’re talking about. I’m personally not particularly bothered by big useless trucks (I drive a full-size pickup myself) but I don’t think the drivers of such trucks are a group of people that need their feelings protected. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912/31 "2013-10-14T14:59:10Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > Caterpillar builds engines for that type of vehicle, and I’d guess he has one under the hood. Wanting everyone to know that a maker of giant earth-moving equipment also made the motor in his grocery-getter sounds to me like an excellent indicator of potential penile compensation. Yes I know Caterpillar builds those engines. I have no way to know for sure but it makes me think it may be a custom job for a company. I would guess that truck costs about 100k. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-huge-suv-truck-thing/670912.md?page=1)