“The Australian public is subsidising big, dumb utes by hundreds of millions of dollars each year”.

I like this guy.

It's a bummer smaller, Aussie utes aren't a thing anymore after Holden was killed and Ford axed all their AUDM cars. If you want a ute in 2025 it's pretty much gonna be big either way; of course those US shitmobiles are the biggest by far but still.

You shouldn't be able to import those big US tractors in the first place IMO, or at least not without paying a hefty tax on them.

Tax the fuck outta them, no one wants these bloody things except for a highly select pack of cunts and they can go fuck themselves

My biggest complaint is the ANCAP rating system.

Since these vehicles are classed as Light Commercial Vehicles, they don’t need to be rated.

Meanwhile other vehicles are getting lower and lower ratings because they wouldn’t survive being hit by one at full speed.

The ANCAP system needs to be recalibrated for real world use. If a pedestrian gets hit by a 1200kg vehicle, they are in for a bad day. If a pedestrian gets hit by a 3495kg vehicle in the same circumstances; no more pedestrian, and the oblivious driver of the Ram wouldn’t even notice that they hit something.

If the government isn’t going to act, I think it’s only reasonable for people to start torching these things on the side of the street.

@Davriellelouna most of these things are shiny and polished. They aren’t tools of trade or needed to carry or pull a load. There only purpose is fashion and ego. Really they should be banned from supermarket car parks etc where they just don’t fit and present a hazard.

Walking through a carpark and there was, I think a Silverado. The edge of the front bonnet was at shoulder height.

How do these people check their oil? Get up on a ladder every time?

I do not like that these are being subsidised by the government here.

I don't want to admit it, but a lot of these chest thumpers have actually been the cars to give way to me on the bike. That could be because I'm extra cautious around them because of their size.

@Davriellelouna
truck-lets for man-lets.
If that's your idea of masculinity, get out of the sand pit, grow a pair and do something constructive instead of waste tons of fuel, forgetting how to park and "owning" the road at everyone's risk.
You do realise these things roll easily and it's a shit of a job trying to cutting you out of a few tons of metal right? And the whole time we have to listen your screams and to the screams of the other poor bastard in a reasonable car you've taken off the road. Lose the wanker mobile, join a volunteer fire brigade and save some fucking lives. Much more manly.
(I get maybe 10% are legitimate need, and no problem with that, but if you aren't regularly caring cargo or towing machinery FTW.)
Ever dealt with a compact car hit by a ford ranger trucklet? Won't forget that quickly, and there's a good chance you'll see all the gruesome detail as we work on cutting you out while the Ambos do what they can keeping the other poor bastard alive, assuming it DIDN'T kill ya when it rolled. )
These things are high mass vehicles with a high centre of gravity and a road safety disaster especially when driven aggressively by manlets with a lot to prove. It's such a huge, bloody ugly, price for a bit of misplaced ego.