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I like the cowcatcher on the front
That didn't help much it seems :-)
Trucks should either be a 1992 Ford Ranger extended cab or a full-size commercial box truck or flatbed for actual commerical hauling needs. Most trucks in the midrange between those levels are just bad at both worlds.
SAME BED SIZE
And the Toyota is likely a 1-ton model, meaning it can haul more weight in its bed than the Ford. One of my first jobs was at a delivery company and we used a lot of these little Toyota and Isuzu trucks because they could get into smaller locations easily and they could haul more weight.
This bullshit is because they want these pickups to be "multi purpose"
Its now a family vehicle! Take your kids to school and go straight to work after!
Safer in crash tests since you decimate sedans!
Go to BJs or Costco and load up on all the toilet paper you want!!
See even farther down the road with higher and brighter headlights! Sedans will let you pass when you blind them with these touchlights!
A little of this. A lot more of, truck manufacturers are now either uninterested or incapable of making vehicles that exist inside of legal emissions restrictions, so they blow up the wheelbase to class it up to SUV class. The bigger the vehicle the less restrictive emissions laws are.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180263/epa-tailpipe-emissions-loophole
if I wasn't poor (and knew how to fix cars) I would totally get one of those baby Japanese kei trucks, they're SO CUTE
get in bitch, we're going 50 on the interstate ๐๐
I went to school with a kid that had a z71 on 44s as a daily driver. 1 tire at that size is 1700 bucks. So a truck that can fit 44s sits up insanely high, if you're driving up a hill you cant see anything in front of you or under you for that matter. Anyway numb nuts big truck boi turned into a store front with a slight hill at the entrance, he hits and kills an old lady cause he couldn't see her because of his tiny penis truck. Worst part is the kid was loaded so he got off Scott free
This is unironically what these US vehicles look like to Europeans.
Bonus:
The car in the middle is a Volvo V70. That is a very large car in Europe. Now compare that to the size of the US thing, it's ridiculous.
Calling a mid sized European car "a very large car in Europe" is weird, it's literally the middle of the three cars they offer (the bigger being the 90, which is fairly common, tho they have hatchecks too). It's basically BMW5 or Mercedes E.
(Btw, bottom left, there is another V70.)
The image is still def disgusting, I support a direct ban on these pickup things, they are sold to ego-hungry folk to make then feel bigger.
Vans are much better & basically without downsides.
They even drive better.
Oh, and extra regulation on angles of the bonnet in regards to height please.
European pick-ups do have a place. You need to have to both tow, and go off-road regularly. Basically, horse owners, farmers, and some areas of construction. American pick-ups are just obscenely big, and completely inappropriate for almost all uses.
A van wins in almost all cases, except off-road performance. Vans are hilariously bad at that.
The XC90 is 10cm longer and the same width. Hardly any bigger. It just looks that way because it is built to topple and cartwheel better
I didn't say XC90/SUV.
The V90 is a further 13cm longer than XC90 & is V70 shaped (that's why the comparison).
The US needs to stop giving special tax breaks to giant trucks.
It's not a tax break. Emissions standards for vehicles were established a couple decades ago. Some lobbying happened, as it does, and an exception was given to pickup trucks. Not an exception carving out work trucks in particular, just all pickups. Then someone had the idea to build a minivan around a pickup truck chassis and now we have SUVs everywhere.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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