Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by wongarsu on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:20AM (#46286439)

I suspect it's the intersection of people cosplaying as farmers, and vans being stereotyped as vehicles for pedophiles and serial killers

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Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by WorldMaker on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:48AM (#46290834)

You are forgetting "soccer moms". For some dumb reason America decided there were two genders "masculine" trucks and "feminine" vans. It still makes no sense, but it certainly seemed to sell a lot of trucks to misogynists.

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Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by red-iron-pine on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @02:20PM (#46293054)

Van's aren't sexy and cool, and there is no marketing as TOUGH and REAL MEN and COUNTRY MUSIC the way there is for trucks.

The bourgeoning Van Life movement that is picking up steam on places like TikTok and YT may do more for that, but in a lot of ways it's a statement about doing without, as opposed to being country rich and tough the way trucks are.

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