In Trade Deal With Trump, Europe Sells Out its Pedestrians
In Trade Deal With Trump, Europe Sells Out its Pedestrians — Streetsblog USA
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35806041
The really sick fact is that there is no real reason to have the hoods that high other than intimidation. Mechanics now need step ladders to work on these stupid things.
Running over your own children is the price of freedom, prove me wrong.
Lets be honest it is a silent fact that this is for people with high insecuritys
We always had a truck on the farm growing up, back then it was just a practical day-to-day tool.
It was small, dirty, scratched, dented, peeling, among other things.
It also smelled like cigarettes and only tuned to AM radio baseball, but whatever.
Sure, it was still higher and bigger than a car but also so much lower than these modern absurdities. And SO much more practical.
When you have to load the bed a million times, those new lifted pavement princess truck are just dumb af.
It towed more than most of these things too, although I'm pretty sure nobody even looked at how much it was supposed to haul on paper.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
You can lose sight of a grown up adult in the huge blind spots that it has.
100% impractical.
It's dumb as fuck.
I grew up on a small farm. We had two farm trucks, and old ford, that was so old, I don't know it's model name, and was rarely used. Our most used farm truck? A Chevy S-10. It was blue and white. Not only did I drive it around the yard when I was around 12, I remember going with my guardian to haul grain in it. A 50mile round trip, with the bed full of grain. It's a small truck and it was our best farm truck.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
Emotional support trucks is so spot on imo
Aww yea.. Hauling grain... 😅
Our trips were much shorter, but I remember towing 10-tonne grain cars, sometimes multiple, with the old Dakota.
It surely wasn't rated for this, but the thing just refused to die.
I still can't take some people seriously, those who're afraid of putting a scratch in their beds by putting literally anything in them...
sigh
Those trucks are already here. There too many of these things but I can't say they're that popular. Very typical people drive around in those things.
Yeah I see a number of these around with this dealership sticker on them: https://www.americancarcity.fr/ and I have to laugh because of the impracticality and expense.
They may become popular though. There is a large subset of the population across the world who uncritically consumes American media and seeks to blindly replicate what’s fashionable here.
I like to think that people here have sense enough to see those things don't really fit on our roads. But you might be right. People seem to love fat bikes so why not fat cars.
We'll see. The average fuel economy on these is like 16 miles per gallon. That is difficult for most Americans to afford, and our gas prices are half of the what most of you are paying in the EU. On top of that, these trucks start around $55,000 these days. You moght get some farmers buying them, but I doubt many others will.
This article is bullshit. With the exception of what's happening in the author's imagination, nothing that's is happening will make it easier to import or drive these in the EU. In fact, the EU, by respecting categorisations made in the US, will be mandating that these be treated as the dangerous, polluting industrial vehicles they are. They won't be able to drive through town centres, in low emissions zones, park in car parks, be driven on car licenses, or be taxed and insured like a Fiat Punto any more. So instead of there being tens of thousands of incorrectly regulated one-off exceptions like we have now, there will be vehicles held to the same standards as all the others.
Ursula von der Leyen is an incompetent idiot who failed at the trade negotiations.
But does this mean I can freely import new EU only cars to the US?
and half of these small man syndrome trucks break down before they hit 50,000 miles. lol. $100,000 pieces of shit.
It might be easier to import them, but a number of factors, that so far prevented market success for American cars in Europe still holds. They are still to expensive, they are still consuming fuel as if it was free, and they still don't fit into European traffic because they are to big - for streets, for parking lots, for garages.
In the end, only a few rich and a handful of idiots will drive them in Europe. Just as it is now.
They throw in an LPG-tank in the back than gas isn't much of an issue anymore.