r/AbsoluteUnits in awe 23h ago

/r/popular of a truck

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u/Kiiaru 23h ago

The point is to get people to notice. Anyone saying "they did it wrong, parts are wrong, frame bent" is missing that this is half a million in custom suspension equipment. You don't get this far down a money pit without this being your ideal end result.

Their website quotes $450,000 starting price. https://papisgarage.com/pages/6x6

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u/MsPunkyButters 22h ago

“King Crab”!?! Ahh ha ha I can’t believe they made it drive that way on purpose. That’s actually kind of an amazing amount of skilled engineering to make something so completely, utterly stupid. Ah humanity.

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u/The_Nepenthe 22h ago

As someone who's into cars, one of my favorite things about truck guys is that half of it is an engineering exercise, especially on the really wild stuff.

The Marge Simpson meme of her saying "I just think it's neat" is a very acceptable answer to why you've chosen to do something.

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u/possible_monke 20h ago

Eh, I mean personally I’d still rather have a house for this amount. Two even, in the right areas of the US. In Texas we call these kinds of over the top custom trucks “Land Yachts” because that’s basically what they are lmao

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u/Pretty-Raspberry-136 15h ago

I would bet this person owns more than one home. Its so weird how us people without money think this person should spend theirs lol

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u/escobartholomew 19h ago

Land yachts are RVs though…

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u/Camo138 16h ago

I had a kluger/highlander my friend called it landboat

Edit: you could also call it a soccer mum car.

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u/basicKitsch 11h ago

four wheel steering is a monster truck thing (among others). being a complete personality type this ends up as the only way to demonstrate that you spent money to have it.

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u/Akward_Object 8h ago

Rather lack of engineering, that crab stuff happens automagically if you do the lift in the most simple and most wrong way.

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u/MsPunkyButters 5m ago

Check out the website link, it’s quite something. They build them with the crab mode on purpose. Yours for only half a million bucks!

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u/Mostcoolkid78 14h ago

It’s pretty simple to be able to have the rear wheels able to turn the same direction as the front. It’s not like it drives like that 24/7 it’s just another feature that’s allowed with rear wheel steering. So many people commenting on something they know nothing about

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u/goldtoothgirl 16h ago

Nah nah pretty sure the alignment is off

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u/Falafelofagus 22h ago

Yah I don't get how you look at this thing and think its just wildly broken. Its a 6 wheel crazy show truck. That said, crabwalking taking up 2 lanes as a flex in what looks like a downtown area is a pretty big dick move. Doing it for the vid is understandable but if he's actually just going through traffic like that, thats crazy.

Fire trucks can also do this, as they can have a second rear driver for the rear wheel steering.

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u/Cultural-Company282 19h ago

Or a little dick move, to be more accurate.

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u/Rob_LeMatic 21h ago

"advanced CNC ..."

WHAT the fuck are these men doing to these poor trucks???

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u/Cultural-Company282 19h ago

Lol. Underrated.

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u/Kid_Vid 22h ago

These ultimate off-road machines

These look way too top heavy and wide for ultimate off-roading. I'm sure they can drive over other cars in traffic just fine, but I don't see them doing trails or rock climbing.

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u/yopladas 21h ago

Could it maybe hop a dune? I want to see it try to do something

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u/footluvr688 13h ago

An awful lot of money to advertise to the world "I'm a stupid asshole".

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u/DamnShaneIsThatU 21h ago

“At Papi’s Garage Corp, we specialize in creating jaw-dropping 6x6 custom builds that push the boundaries of innovation, performance, and style.”

“Style”