The new trade deal between the European Union and the U.S. means that pedestrians from Lisbon to Helsinki will be endangered by big, American-made trucks.
They may become popular though. There is a large subset of the population across the world who uncritically consumes American media and seeks to blindly replicate what’s fashionable here.
I like to think that people here have sense enough to see those things don’t really fit on our roads. But you might be right. People seem to love fat bikes so why not fat cars.
They don’t really fit on a lot of US roads either but people still drive them here. Almost every day they have to haul one out of the way of the light rail in my city because it sticks out too far.
We’ll see. The average fuel economy on these is like 16 miles per gallon. That is difficult for most Americans to afford, and our gas prices are half of the what most of you are paying in the EU. On top of that, these trucks start around $55,000 these days. You moght get some farmers buying them, but I doubt many others will.
@BakerBagel@LibertyLizard And you’ve gotta have a place to park it. I’ve lived in urban US neighborhoods that were burdened by fools who moved in from the suburbs with their monster trucks or bought one without any thought to how they’d park it, but a lot of European cities have narrower streets and a lot less parking than our “historic” neighborhoods from the 1800s.
Yupp. I live in a cute little farm town in the Midwest and none of the newer trucks people drive around fit anywhere in town. Old Rangers and Dakotas from the 80’s and 90’s are still puttering around and do alright, but the lifted 2500s and F150s you see around town barely even fit in the parking lots downtown, and there is no chance of parallel parking them. Americans do it because it’s all we know, but only morons are going to put up with the hassel of owning the expensive junk piles American trucks have become in Europe
They may become popular though. There is a large subset of the population across the world who uncritically consumes American media and seeks to blindly replicate what’s fashionable here.
I like to think that people here have sense enough to see those things don’t really fit on our roads. But you might be right. People seem to love fat bikes so why not fat cars.
They don’t really fit on a lot of US roads either but people still drive them here. Almost every day they have to haul one out of the way of the light rail in my city because it sticks out too far.
We have the same problem with our cars. They grew significantly too.
We’ll see. The average fuel economy on these is like 16 miles per gallon. That is difficult for most Americans to afford, and our gas prices are half of the what most of you are paying in the EU. On top of that, these trucks start around $55,000 these days. You moght get some farmers buying them, but I doubt many others will.
@BakerBagel @LibertyLizard And you’ve gotta have a place to park it. I’ve lived in urban US neighborhoods that were burdened by fools who moved in from the suburbs with their monster trucks or bought one without any thought to how they’d park it, but a lot of European cities have narrower streets and a lot less parking than our “historic” neighborhoods from the 1800s.
Yupp. I live in a cute little farm town in the Midwest and none of the newer trucks people drive around fit anywhere in town. Old Rangers and Dakotas from the 80’s and 90’s are still puttering around and do alright, but the lifted 2500s and F150s you see around town barely even fit in the parking lots downtown, and there is no chance of parallel parking them. Americans do it because it’s all we know, but only morons are going to put up with the hassel of owning the expensive junk piles American trucks have become in Europe