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Besides the obvious fact these trucks are too huge for European roads and parking spaces, America vehicles are simply hot garbage.
The Japanese and Korean vehicles for the American market aren't any better to be fair.
the "newest" car i've ever owned is from 2008... are hondas and toyotas really equally as shitty as fucking dodge and chevy now?
I don't think so. Their comment seems over-generalized. Sure, most modern cars are too "sporty" now which translates to being more uncomfortable in my experience. But that doesn't mean I'd lump Japanese cars in the same quality category as American cars.
I meant that they're all behemoths rather than quality wise! But yeah, Chevy has improved and is ok now from what I understand, the rest I wouldn't trust.
I too would like to know. I'm rocking a 2012 Scion with a Toyota engine with 300,000 miles on it...
Toyota, particularly, hasn’t kept up with advances in infotainment technology. Their infotainment is literally no better than it was in 08. Honda infotainment is slightly better, but still stuck with terribly low resolution, and only a 9”ish screen. Pretty much any other company will be a better buy than those 2 right now. Remember, the infotainment in every new car is the entire heart of the car, so you’re forced to live with it; you can’t just swap out infotainment screens for something better like you used to be able to do.
Silly me, thinking that the engine would be the heart of a car.
What would you even need that for?
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lol "heart of the car" gtfo
rear view cameras are nice (though unnecessary), but literally NOTHING else about "infotainment" is worth the extra cost. you think it is because you've been convinced you just simply can't survive without it, and cars can't even exist without it. why? because $$$
fuck outta my face with that shit
so, my takeaway from all this is that toyota is still the best way to go if you for some reason just have to buy a "infotainment" car
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No. They're much more reliable and generally cheaper even with the tariffs
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It'd be nice to get them out of America, too.
And Canada. They're everywhere here. Idiots only using them to commute to work every day.
"But I need it" Fuck off.
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It'd be nice to actually have truly small trucks like the S10/S15 from '04 and earlier come back into vogue, let alone more normal cars like hatchbacks and sedans and such, and hell, more vans for light commercial work if desired too.
Even minivans can legitimately work pretty well for moving a lot of stuff around if you either remove the seats or fold them into the floor depending on how that's set up, really, say what you will about minivans, but they can hold a lot of stuff with the seats removed/folded into the floor, if you own a minivan and, say, you're renovating your home or whatever, for example, you could fit all the materials for that with the second and third-row seats removed/folded into the floor into maybe a couple trips to your preferred hardware store and be good to go with how much stuff that class of vehicle can carry, and hold it in a way that's easily accessed by a low load floor and sliding doors on one or both sides of the van, just like their full-sized counterparts only smaller and with better fuel economy.
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I've always said that the fines for moving traffic violations need to be scaled to the weight of the vehicle.
It's insane that going 20 over the limit on a 250kg moped gets you the exact same fine as doing it in a 4 ton F-450.
The more insane part is that Bezos and that mfer working McDonald's gets the same fine. It might as well be jail time for one, and a verbal warning for the other.
Except in Finland like with that Nokia executive
So “cute” we kept our little static fines as if three or four figures mean something to everyone
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You couldn't have linked the bloody video?
Thought I did, sorry. Fixed it now.
The only thing more stupid than these tacky cars are the people sitting in them.
They are plus sized.
Indeed, and they have no performance, even though they pretend to be high-class.
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Wait until the CyberTruck arrives
It won't because its exterior has too many sharp edges to be street legal. It will never be allowed in europe, not without a whole bunch of laws beeing changed.
You’re very fortunate as it’s a hideous abomination
Every time I see one turning or handling a slope it looks like the handling is traaaaaaash.
I will say that the wheels and tires actually look cool. On a different vehicle those could be very stylish for a city truck someone in Ft Worth or Atlanta might have.
I have a oddly hard time spotting Cybertrucks in the wild, I think it's my brain trying to spare me the psychic damage of seeing such an ugly vehicle.
Your brain probably just thought it was a dumpster
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Help how? I would love nothing more if I never had to see one again but I can hardly prohibit others from having one
Below the video you`ll find links to organisation competing this legislation. You can join those and support them.
If EU citizen, you can write to your member of the EU-parliament. Theres a pre-fabricated letter you can send in. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/advanced
He explains it in the conclusion of the video.
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Seems like links to the video itself are missing in the post, here they are:
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-keep-these-stupid-american-trucks / https://youtu.be/--832LV9a3I
It's hilariously sad watching these huge trucks driving like they're corvettes on the highway.
I drove a few hundred kilometers on the highway the other day after a bit of snow fall, of course the four cars that I saw in the ditch were pickups
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New f150s dwarf old f250s in size despite not being able to haul as much. I read somewhere that American farmers have a strong preference for pickups from the 90s because new trucks are worse at doing truck stuff in every way.
If only there was a youtube video that could summarize the issue for us.
Everyone else on the road when one of these drives by with a loud muffler:
There should be a system in place where, while not banned outright, private ownership of these trucks is dissuaded and favor is granted to commercial contractors. I don't know how such a system would be implemented but it would ensure that these behemoths stay off city streets. The obvious solution is to design streets that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists first, small cars second and commercial vehicles third but only if they're actively used in commercial labor.
Make it really inconvenient to own one. Require a CDL and subject them to the same restrictions as commercial vehicles.
You want one? Ok, but it's going to be a pain in the ass.
Nah, commercial vehicles shouldn't be given greater freedom to kill bystanders. Limit 'em to 45kph and have to display a yellow flashing knob beacon.
Great
How?
Some wealthy idiots in Europe will buy a handful of US pick-up trucks. The normal European would not waste their money on the insurance, emission taxes, fuel cost, and maintenance for that junk. Good luck parking it too. I always laughed when I saw a RAM on the Autobahn with the "AF" plates. Aral (Petrol Stations) were delighted when they had to fill it up off base.
The fucked-up thing is these hulking beasts are a recent construct, we used to have genuinely small trucks here once.
A stock S10 from the '80s, '90s, or early '00s is going to be significantly smaller than a stock Colorado you can pick up new off the lot right now, for example, and that S10 would've been more than good enough for things like basic junk runs to the scrapyard or for hardware store runs for things like bags of sand or whatever.
Is this a re upload?? I'm sure already saw that video some time ago
He has another video about stupid American trucks, but it's about how stupid they are in America, not that politicians are trying to get them into Europe.
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