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.

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

But now that Holden have stopped making Commodores, how else are you meant to show you’re a dickhead?

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

Ah, I see you're getting our pedestrian bonker 9000 down under!

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.

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.

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.

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.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

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.

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