This article is bullshit. With the exception of what’s happening in the author’s imagination, nothing that’s is happening will make it easier to import or drive these in the EU. In fact, the EU, by respecting categorisations made in the US, will be mandating that these be treated as the dangerous, polluting industrial vehicles they are. They won’t be able to drive through town centres, in low emissions zones, park in car parks, be driven on car licenses, or be taxed and insured like a Fiat Punto any more. So instead of there being tens of thousands of incorrectly regulated one-off exceptions like we have now, there will be vehicles held to the same standards as all the others.
The really sick fact is that there is no real reason to have the hoods that high other than intimidation. Mechanics now need step ladders to work on these stupid things.
Running over your own children is the price of freedom, prove me wrong.
Lets be honest it is a silent fact that this is for people with high insecuritys
It might be easier to import them, but a number of factors, that so far prevented market success for American cars in Europe still holds. They are still to expensive, they are still consuming fuel as if it was free, and they still don’t fit into European traffic because they are to big - for streets, for parking lots, for garages.
In the end, only a few rich and a handful of idiots will drive them in Europe. Just as it is now.
They throw in an LPG-tank in the back than gas isn’t much of an issue anymore.
We always had a truck on the farm growing up, back then it was just a practical day-to-day tool.
It was small, dirty, scratched, dented, peeling, among other things.
It also smelled like cigarettes and only tuned to AM radio baseball, but whatever.Sure, it was still higher and bigger than a car but also so much lower than these modern absurdities. And SO much more practical.
When you have to load the bed a million times, those new lifted pavement princess truck are just dumb af.
It towed more than most of these things too, although I’m pretty sure nobody even looked at how much it was supposed to haul on paper.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
You can lose sight of a grown up adult in the huge blind spots that it has.
100% impractical.
It’s dumb as fuck.I grew up on a small farm. We had two farm trucks, and old ford, that was so old, I don’t know it’s model name, and was rarely used. Our most used farm truck? A Chevy S-10. It was blue and white. Not only did I drive it around the yard when I was around 12, I remember going with my guardian to haul grain in it. A 50mile round trip, with the bed full of grain. It’s a small truck and it was our best farm truck.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
Emotional support trucks is so spot on imo
Aww yea… Hauling grain… 😅
Our trips were much shorter, but I remember towing 10-tonne grain cars, sometimes multiple, with the old Dakota.
It surely wasn’t rated for this, but the thing just refused to die.I still can’t take some people seriously, those who’re afraid of putting a scratch in their beds by putting literally anything in them…
sighHell yeah, a Dakota is about the same size! May not have been rated for it, but did the job.
I remember my uncle’s in the 90’s talking trash when extended cabs became popular. They had this word they used… yuppie, I believe. Funny how things change and stay the same
Ursula von der Leyen is an incompetent idiot who failed at the trade negotiations.
Those trucks are already here. There too many of these things but I can’t say they’re that popular. Very typical people drive around in those things.
Yeah I see a number of these around with this dealership sticker on them: https://www.americancarcity.fr/ and I have to laugh because of the impracticality and expense.
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
and half of these small man syndrome trucks break down before they hit 50,000 miles. lol. $100,000 pieces of shit.
But does this mean I can freely import new EU only cars to the US?
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.
Holy shit this is a retarded take. Big trucks made in USA! Trade deal with EU! Therefore big trucks in EU!
Who writes that shit?
Did you read the article?
Don’t be silly. You can’t sustain carbrain by reading. Just react emotionally and move on. That way you never have to feel any cognitive dissonance about the bullshit our culture teaches people.
Lol those trucks aren’t going to sell. Stellantis vehicles are junk. Plus there’s no wide demand for our vehicle over seas.
You’re getting downvoted by the kind of people who make serious conversation about this kind of thing impossible. This agreement will make importing - and driving - these trucks in the EU harder, because they’ll actually be correctly identified and classified by EU laws for the first time instead of being treated as ten thousand unclassified one-offs. Sorry you’re getting screamed down by a mob.
Not only that, but there’s no market in EU for these things. People in EU don’t drive massive trucks period. The whole notion that suddenly massive US cars will flood the market is bonkers. This isn’t an article, its a propaganda piece
