There is a law in the US that says trucks must meet a certain Miles per gallon fuel economy. But there is a loop hole that says trucks over a certain size are not included in that law. So as long as the trucks are ridiculously big they don't need to worry about their fuel economy.
Edit: it's the CAFE law.
This seems counterintuitive
Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.
*bribe
It's legalized bribery.
It's called lobbying if it occurs in the registered geographic region of Washington DC, everywhere else it's sparkling bribery.
At the time the law was passed, the carve out was for work trucks which made a minority of the market. Possibly less than 10%, but they also put tariffs on the light trucks imported from Asia, and so now almost 30 years later we have the situation we've got now.
We need to revoke the tariffs on the light trucks for normal people.
Also make it so you have to have a business licence to buy them, and a CDL to drive these "work trucks"
Does anyone make light trucks anymore? Even Toyotas are 3x bigger than they used to be.
Isuzu still has a light truck division, and the Asian market still has loads of smaller vehicles, we just need to get off this "tank obsession" here in the US
In Europe we have vans, they use barely more fuel than regular cars (at least until the really big ones) and can be used for just about any trade.
Makes money without having to make effort to better their cars, seems very intuitive.
Welcome to the USA of today.
"your vehicle needs to be efficient by law, unless your vehicle is super inefficient then no worries there big guy"
holy hell. that's just idiotic. who has that much money to blow on gas?
edit: i saw a post recently saying it costs some truck owner $80 to drive to and from work. i did the math and estimated 8 mpg, so i thought they were exaggerating. but nope, my estimate was pretty damn close to reality, and that's an absurd amount of money to just throw away every day
Lol I also immediately thought of BMW when I saw OP's meme. The current M3/4's buck teeth are atrocious and I will die on that hill.
"But ma airflow!" they'll counter, seemingly oblivous to the fact that even the t-600 Kenworths have a smaller grill and work just fine.
Its also easier to see someone standing in front of that KW than in front of a 2023 Silverado.
There was a post recently where they figured out that you have better forward visibility in an Abrams tank than in several modern suvs and trucks.
Yup, I've driven kenworths since the mid 90's, never once ran over anything I didn't intend to. Visibility is pretty good in those things.
2070 seems like a stretch.
I saw a truck like this last week. The hood must've been over 5ft high. Absolutely ridiculous.
I refuse to believe that these vehicles are not already plaguing our roads.
The sad part is I did not see this a joke at first. I can walk out to the street right now and there are at least two trucks that I can stand in front of and be eye level with the hood.
I want EU laws against this shit they're slowly gaining in popularity here (mostly due to micro-egos compensating with US imports, incidentally for actual work purpose).
Needs more lights so I can blind the crap out of everyone in front of me
Before long, it'll be all grill
GM already did that with their trains a long time ago. In the picture below you are looking at the front of the train.
You can see the sky, and the sky is beautiful. Why would you care about an ugly road or NSFL gore in front of your car?
Upgrade to the premium suspension option! You already can't see the corpses, but with airsuspend+ you won't feel them either! It's like you're not even committing the murder!
/S
Lights would be higher to blind as many people as possible.
Are you truly an American if you don't own one of these for the express purposes of turning it on its side and grilling steaks on it?
Make a law saying they need those convex front mirrors like school busses have and see how fast this trend dies.
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Chevrolet's pickup truck in 2077
What's old is new again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Kodiak#/media/File%3A1980-1989_GMC_Top_Kick_C7000.jpg
It'll have a canon. I'm sure very soon they'll start mounting guns on the hood.
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