Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • @MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’m from the US, living in a major city, and regularly use both Pickup Trucks and Trailers, so …

    Also, congrats on saying “dude in Sweden’s friend may need a truck, but really no-one needs a truck”. These things don’t exist because no-one needs them, and crew-cabs can allow for car-pooling, but I get it; Blindly hating that they exist at all is super important.

    Would you believe they got so big because of EPA mpg requirements(also, airbags & crunch zones)? I can link you an article if so. Otherwise I’m not wasting my time.

    • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Firstly, this comment is 3 weeks old - how did you even find it?

      Secondly, approximately 99% of what a pickup is able to do can be achieved by a van, with better fuel economy, significantly better views and therefore a reduced child-killing rate and more capacity than a bed mounted way too high in the air. Nobody living in a city needs a truck. And car pooling? Yeah, I’m sure this happens all the time. How often are you participating in it?

      And about the EPA requirements: I’m sure you’re campaigning to have them adjusted, right? Clearly trucks don’t need to be thrice as large as cars from the 60’s. Also: Why should cars protect the inside more than the outside? Pedestrian impacts happen all the time due to bad drivers and large, heavy cars significantly worsen injuries. Don’t they deserve protections too?

      • @MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Yours was a reply to my own comment in the first place and I am regularly without good internet for a month at a time, so…

        Anyways, yes, I agree that trucks should be smaller, and I donate to others who think like so, but in the meanwhile, people do have a need for trucks and cannot be blamed for buying what is available to them to purchase.

        How often do I participate in car-pooling? At least daily when I’m not stringing barges together - I have a large family, my kids’ friends know I’m good for a ride to group events, and I drive for Uber and Lyft … All that said, I personally don’t own a truck, but an SUV, since I’ve found the towing capacity(and MPG! WTF is up with that!?) of vans in my price-range to be absolutely pathetic. In trucks, when the occassion arrises, I am usually a passenger or renting.

        That said, even the most rural farmers in the US now know how to import Kei Trucks, and how useful they are, so things are changing, if not quite in a “No one needs trucks” way.