From The Drive · Stephen Edelstein · · 40s
Ford Super Duty Bro Truck Rolls Over
A lifted Ford Super Duty truck flips during a normal left turn, showing the risks of over-the-top customization.
In brief
A lifted Ford Super Duty truck flips during a normal left turn, showing the risks of over-the-top customization. A Ford Super Duty truck flipped during a basic left turn after excessive lift kit modifications, highlighting the impracticality of 'form over function' customization. Originally reported by The Drive.
Bro-Dozer Truck Flip
A lifted Ford Super Duty truck flips during a normal left turn after a burnout.
“It’s almost too easy to make fun of bro-dozer trucks, rigs with towering-yet-fragile lift kits and comparatively small tires that destroy any usefulness these pickups and SUVs might have had.”
Physics of High Center of Gravity
Raising a truck’s center of gravity too high makes it tilt when a lateral force is applied, like during a left turn.
“When you make the center of gravity that high by lifting a truck’s body to inadvisable heights, it’s naturally going to tilt when a lateral force is applied to it.”
Form Over Function
Excessive lift kits make trucks impractical, as they can’t handle basic maneuvers like a normal left turn.
“This may just be the logical conclusion of form-over-function customization. Bro-dozers have now gotten so impractical and decadent that they can no longer be driven.”
The main idea
A Ford Super Duty truck flipped during a basic left turn after excessive lift kit modifications, highlighting the impracticality of 'form over function' customization.
