It barely fits in the bloody car park. So bad for pedestrians and the environment.
For complete fairness to everyone we should tax every vehicle on road or path from scooters and bikes to b-doubles based on the 4th power of axle load to properly account for the impact on road maintenance costs. Then additional levies for disproportionate environmental costs and harm to vulnerable road users. Keep the overall tax amount the same but shift the burden so people with smaller vehicles pay substantially less than they do now. And then add strict liability for anything much larger than a kei car.
Yes, however with that it'd be more expensive to administer taxation on bicycles etc. Than what they'd bring in... So not really worth doing at all.
Since the amount of damage caused by bikes to infrastructure would be small, the govt could just slap a tax for the cost to the purchase price of every bike. Not saying I'd agree with it but there are ways to make all road users pay their share.
Surely human powered transport should have tax breaks in order to encourage adoption by promoting affordability though.
Hi American here - please don't let those things take over your roads, it sucks for all the reasons you think it does
The bodies are all so tacky too. It reminds me of a super soaker or nerf gun.
But my masculinity
Your truck nuts will hang just fine on a car
But now that Holden have stopped making Commodores, how else are you meant to show you’re a dickhead?
Through the quality of your driving, the aggressiveness of your horn usage, the size of your exhaust, and how quick your road rage builds.
Can they be fined for not fitting inside the car park?
Oh god the reddit f150 posts have made it to lemmy. Didn’t take long
lmao my bad I just saw the article and couldn't believe the size of the thing.
Ah, I see you're getting our pedestrian bonker 9000 down under!
Child-runner-over-er more like.
If the bull bar doesn't squash them, then the tail pipe emissions will get them instead! Not to mention climate change.
Why do people even like inefficient, huge cars if they're not going to use most of its features, not even in the foreseeable future? Such a bloated design for an everyday car, and even more potentially dangerous at that... those Japanese cars have a more elegant and sleek design, as well as efficient. Well, I would like good public transportation too.
No matter how you look at it, all the pros of those kind of cars turn into cons when they're used as cars for everyday personal transport.
In America they are mostly bought because of consumerism and fragile masculinity.
Where I live trucks are at around half the vehicles. My wife and I play a game where we try to spot a truck hauling something that they actually needed the truck for. Most trips I'll see dozens of trucks and zero being necessary.
As a big dude I can't comfortably fit in a lot of smaller vehicles. I used to love my truck. Now I've settled on a Crown Victoria, the thing is a boat made for land.
I live in America so it's far from the worst offender.
I think I can understand that, it's just that some people just get the biggest car they can find only as a status symbol and think of nothing else about it, then when they get an inconvenience they don't even think that it's the cost of having that design. Not to mention the environmental impacts. But if I were in your situation, I certainly don't want to feel cramped in a car, especially if it's in America where you'll be driving fora significant portion of your day. I mean your car could be inefficient, but it's probably because efficiency wasn't accessible for you in the first place.
I don't understand why they're suddenly getting traction here. These big utes have been around forever but it just feels like you see them all the time now.
They’re every inconvenience rolled in to one. A pain to get in. A pain to park. Use heaps of fuel. Don’t fit in garages, and to top it off are expensive AF. I’m confident in saying unless you tow like, horse floats on the regular, if you own one you’re a fucking idiot.
They're not actually that bad on fuel. Don't get me wrong, I'd never own one but a few of our major players at work have them as some sort of status symbol. Cruising in overdrive at 100km/h they can go as low as 6L/100km, but average is around 12L/100km unless you are doing lots of hunting through the gearbox or driving like a dick, then you can see some truly disturbing fuel usage figures.
To put it in perspective, this is on par with a modern hilux, and WORLDS better than the 2022 79 series landcruiser even with all the fuel efficiency gains they made.
To be clear I still don't think anyone should be driving one here - our roads and car parks are simply not built for them. They aren't that great offroad either. Really the only genuine use case is towing an enormous caravan down the hwy, in which case I hate you anyway because that's TWO symbols of you being an inconsiderate prick that doesn't care about anyone else.
It's just crazy that these things are allowed.
Ok, let people buy them if they really want, but they shouldn't be allowed to use them on the roads that other people have to share with them!
These are showing up all over the place in The Netherlands, a country that is not built to accommodate these Emotional Support Trucks. Most are bought by business owners who would be served far better by vans. Even a small van has more usable cargo space than these behemoths, and will actually fit in parking spaces, but for some stupid reason these can be had for cheap by companies because of tax rules (that’s what 20 years of right-wing government does for you). It really is beyond infuriating.
Those same tax rules are why they're proliferating here too. Since they can count as "work vehicles", they're not subject to our Luxury Car Tax.
As I understand it is because of emission control laws.
It is hard for manufacturers to create cars which fallow regulations and those big trucks are exempt from regulations since they are "trucks" and not "cars".
I wonder how can those even be legal, I am seeing the lm more and more in Europe and it is so sad since they are bigger than most streets.
We should just forbid them.
My dad recently bought an F-350. He works in an office and lives in the suburbs. Why he willing chose to get 14mpg with post COVID gas prices is beyond me...
If you live in the City then these things are pointless, but in the country they are some of the handy vehicles to have. And they sell like hotcakes out here.
I want to create a community that shows trucks and SUVs too large for their garages
These mofo americans are ruining it for everyone. I have stopped watching hollywood movies as they tend to show these cars and most regulars get brain washed and start buying this shit.
I've been seeing those yank tanks showing up at my child's school lately. They're legitimately frightening. The bonnet comes almost up to my shoulder.
They’re perfect for running over children and claiming complete ignorance of the child. It’s so bad that they’re thinking of installing front facing cameras on these things.
In America, I’m sick and tired of seeing them. They’re minivans for insecure dads. They’re props for office workers who want to LARP as construction workers
Every time I see them, all I can think is that they hate kids (huge blind spots) and love to complain about gas/petrol prices. They also don’t fit in our huge parking spaces. Sure, they have their uses, but I really doubt that the shiny, pristine truck is being used to haul/tow anything
The real construction workers/laborers are usually seen driving normal sedans/cars, minivans, or actual vans. Fuck pickup trucks, they’re awful
F-150 Raptor: The official truck of “she hit me first”.
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