Lifted Trucks And Jacked Up Trucks

Everyone likes to own a lifted truck or to use slang the jacked up truck. But how useful is are jacked up trucks compared to a normal truck in a city? Lifted trucks or jacked up trucks as some call them may be very popular with people who like the monster truck look but I hope you will consider this if you are looking for a jacked up truck or considering modifying a normal pickup truck into a lifted truck. Lifted trucks can be a lot of fun but it can also be a expensive truck in many ways.

Today, the lifted trucks and jacked up pickup trucks mania can be seen with the younger generation who are looking for their first truck to buy. Instead of buying a good sturdy truck the younger generation in America specially prefer to buy a jack up truck. Owning a jack up truck or lifted truck has become something like owning a Harley Davidson bike. They think jacked up trucks looks good. Certainly I agree. They are fun to drive. Of course. A funky jacked up truck is the envy of the neighborhood! Who am I do disagree!

 

The famous Bigfoot Monster Truck that started the monster truck mania.

But have you asked yourself how practical a jacked up truck is? Is it worth turning a perfectly working old truck or old Ford truck for that matter into a jacked up monster truck unless you hope to enter it into a competition? What about the extra cost you incur for the modifications? Do you really need a lifted pickup truck or any other unnecessarily hiked up vehicle in American and European cities with smooth carpeted super highways? What about the extra fuel you burn? Have you considered the environmental impact of having a fancy lifted truck? And then there are the safety issues. A normal truck is aerodynamically manufactured after considering many mathematical calculations and designs about it's velocity, weight, center of gravity etc. How much do you think a expert truck modifier is going to consider about these kind of advanced electromechanical sciences and variables when he modifies your normal Toyota or Ford pickup truck into a lifted truck?

 

A jacked up Ford truck in Brazil

Then you have the other difficulties you face with jacked up trucks.  If you take a Toyota Tacoma or a Ford F150 the normal truck bed height itself is above your waist and you encounter difficulty when you load things onto the truck bed. Raising the truck some more by jacking it up makes it very much more difficult to load things onto the truck bed. Further jacked up trucks also have difficulty finding parking in low roof parking spaces you find in many city buildings.

 

A Volkswagan concept truck manufactured as a jacked up truck.

I hope you will consider all this things before you turn a perfectly working used Ford truck or any other truck model into a monster truck that guzzles your money.