Australia

Hi American here - please don't let those things take over your roads, it sucks for all the reasons you think it does

Oh god the reddit f150 posts have made it to lemmy. Didn’t take long

For complete fairness to everyone we should tax every vehicle on road or path from scooters and bikes to b-doubles based on the 4th power of axle load to properly account for the impact on road maintenance costs. Then additional levies for disproportionate environmental costs and harm to vulnerable road users. Keep the overall tax amount the same but shift the burden so people with smaller vehicles pay substantially less than they do now. And then add strict liability for anything much larger than a kei car.

But now that Holden have stopped making Commodores, how else are you meant to show you’re a dickhead?

They’re every inconvenience rolled in to one. A pain to get in. A pain to park. Use heaps of fuel. Don’t fit in garages, and to top it off are expensive AF. I’m confident in saying unless you tow like, horse floats on the regular, if you own one you’re a fucking idiot.

Why do people even like inefficient, huge cars if they're not going to use most of its features, not even in the foreseeable future? Such a bloated design for an everyday car, and even more potentially dangerous at that... those Japanese cars have a more elegant and sleek design, as well as efficient. Well, I would like good public transportation too.

No matter how you look at it, all the pros of those kind of cars turn into cons when they're used as cars for everyday personal transport.

I've been seeing those yank tanks showing up at my child's school lately. They're legitimately frightening. The bonnet comes almost up to my shoulder.

Ah, I see you're getting our pedestrian bonker 9000 down under!

In America, I’m sick and tired of seeing them. They’re minivans for insecure dads. They’re props for office workers who want to LARP as construction workers

Every time I see them, all I can think is that they hate kids (huge blind spots) and love to complain about gas/petrol prices. They also don’t fit in our huge parking spaces. Sure, they have their uses, but I really doubt that the shiny, pristine truck is being used to haul/tow anything

The real construction workers/laborers are usually seen driving normal sedans/cars, minivans, or actual vans. Fuck pickup trucks, they’re awful

I saw an image comparing these with the older versions, and while the size of the vehicle has massively increased, the size of the actual tray has decreased.

These are showing up all over the place in The Netherlands, a country that is not built to accommodate these Emotional Support Trucks. Most are bought by business owners who would be served far better by vans. Even a small van has more usable cargo space than these behemoths, and will actually fit in parking spaces, but for some stupid reason these can be had for cheap by companies because of tax rules (that’s what 20 years of right-wing government does for you). It really is beyond infuriating.

Hey! Don't judge them too harshly for admitting they need an Emotional Support Vehicle for their fragile ego, there's a reason they need such obvious over-compensateors. /s

I'm honestly always weary of these kinds of vehicles, the blind-spots are freaking massive. they are also much more difficult to see "around" to try and get a sense of what traffic/etc is like further ahead/around you.

But my masculinity

My dad recently bought an F-350. He works in an office and lives in the suburbs. Why he willing chose to get 14mpg with post COVID gas prices is beyond me...

As I understand it is because of emission control laws.

It is hard for manufacturers to create cars which fallow regulations and those big trucks are exempt from regulations since they are "trucks" and not "cars".

I wonder how can those even be legal, I am seeing the lm more and more in Europe and it is so sad since they are bigger than most streets.

We should just forbid them.

https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

The F150 isn't even the worst offender, I'm sitting in my office looking out the window and there is a lifted wankerado in the carpark. it's hood is up to my shoulders and I'm 5'11. They're not a good off roader why lift them like that?

How the fuck is that even legal.

I used to drive an ND MX5, and when one of these cunt-mobiles was behind me I always tried to get off the line as fast as that little thing would let me because I was certain some the drivers had no idea I was there.

These mofo americans are ruining it for everyone. I have stopped watching hollywood movies as they tend to show these cars and most regulars get brain washed and start buying this shit.

I agree. We should stop buying internal combustion engine cars.

I want to create a community that shows trucks and SUVs too large for their garages

Often fitted with all terrain tyres for no good reason. Just why?

I don't understand why they're suddenly getting traction here. These big utes have been around forever but it just feels like you see them all the time now.

The bodies are all so tacky too. It reminds me of a super soaker or nerf gun.

They are killing us