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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!
Seriously this is actually a good point. While most trucks are overkill for daily driving if you do a lot of hunting, fishing etc you have to deal with transporting dead/gross things home surprisingly often. It’s nice to have a totally separate compartment that you can simply hose out. Again not for everyone but that’s a legit use case a family friend has for their truck.
We all know.
“They have there usage”.
Yes, we know. Does a ranger/hunter use this parking lot on their way from home to the woods? Nope.
I’m coming off a bit angry, I don’t mean it. But every post about ridiculously huge, gargantuan trucks has a comment about the edge case usage.
But that’s not our lived reality. In our lived reality 99% of these trucks don’t have any additional usage of that sort. Their owners just want to have them.
I know you know, and I get the point of this community is to limit car use in favor of public transportation, bikes etc. I support that and that’s why I’m here.
Should trucks be waaay less common on our roads? Yes and I think that times will change and smaller more practical trucks (think 90’s toyota hilux or todays ford maverick) will be much more common. But there are people out there that have no idea that those edge cases exist and that’s worth mentioning because they do have a place, just not a prominent one, especially in cities.
Probably get a similar amount of room in a station wagon.
True, unfortunately they aren’t very common. The only ones that come to mind are Subarus and the occasional BMW
We’ve got a Volvo V60, it’s a little big for my tastes, but when you’re carrying a family, an estate car comes in very handy.
If stacked on one another, a van would always hold more luggage than that truck would with even better mobility on major roads. There’s no justification for the existence of that monstrosity.
Yeah definitely, so many animal carcasses are transported in EU on daily bases by everyday citizen for sure…
Yeah definitely, so many american made Dodge 1500s driven by everyday citizens in the EU…
As annoying as these big fat cars on the road (I am from third-world country, and most roads here aren’t designed for these trucks), I can totally get its purpose — to store mid-to-heavy loads, and a mini-bedroom in case you’re stuck.
I’m a big fan of the “mid size trucks” in the old school Toyota Hilux sense. Way smaller and way more practical for more people