Rollin' Coal: Time For Tea?
More smokey than bandit, and not an EPA emissions test in sight!
Anyway, here's something that proves Americans aren't always quite so concerned about emissions produced by diesel vehicles. The trend for "rolling coal" is a strange and anti-social one; basically doctoring diesel engined trucks to spew out the maximum amount of soot and clag, with the intended targets of such fume-based thuggery often being those with the temerity to drive a Prius or other hybrid.
Yet here's proof that the US diesel tuning culture does have another purpose: creating some amusingly fast pick-up trucks. Yes, they might give off more smoke than an oilwell fire, but it's hard not to be impressed by something this size and shape that's capable of running a sub-9 second quarter mile without spark plugs. They should put one of these in for EPA testing and see what the NOx figures look like...
Watch the video here.
Most of the trucks that "roll coal" aren't for the drag strip, and will never see one. They're most common in the midwest, southern Appalachia, and the southeast/south (rare in the northeast and west coast). They're usually lifted by 8cm or more, and dual rear-wheels and a wider rear end will exist if the owner could afford it. They're not intended to be fast (if most could break into the 14s in the 1/4 mile, I'd be surprised). They're just intended to produce a lot of smoke and noise, on demand.
I don't "get it", but just clarifying that they rarely are about performance. It's purely an "image thing" and a bit of antiestablishmentarianism.
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