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I kind of understand it on some level because I absolutely love driving my old Crown Victoria, there's just something really fun about piloting such a large vehicle down the road, seeing the hood stretch six feet out in front of me, the v8, the way it leans around corners...
But I used to have an expedition and I didn't feel any of that back then. It was just a big car.
I keep trying to come up with ways to explain the particular feeling of commanding a large vehicle, but it's hard to put into words. Also, I probably enjoy it for very different reasons than the average NPC does. I enjoy it because I like being at the helm of something big and unwieldy and yet still committing to the same driving as I would in an equinox. I don't cross the yellow lines, I park in the exact center of parking spots, I wait for the appropriate amount of time to make sure I'm not pulling out and cutting off traffic at an intersection because I'm aware that my worn out old V8 can't accelerate as quickly as a modern car.
But that's not, it seems, why most people enjoy getting a large vehicle. It seems like they buy a gigantic Suburban or F-250 so that they can wander all over the road, forcing everyone else to make way or get obliterated by their obese debt mobile. They buy it so they can park badly and blame the parking spots for being too small, pull out in front of traffic because they're in a big enough vehicle that obviously it's their right and the oncoming traffic couldn't possibly miss them.
It's the idea that being in a large vehicle gives them the rights to do whatever they want on the road, and I suppose in some ways they're not exactly wrong, because if you're driving a corvette and Billy Bob in his brand new King Ranch decides he wants to pull out directly in front of you on the highway doing 30 below the speed limit, what are you going to do? Get decapitated by his obnoxiously oversized tow hitch? No, you're going to let him do what he wants. I guess he wins.
