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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
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Tor Lillqvist
in reply to Ars Technica • • •Veronica Olsen
in reply to Tor Lillqvist • • •@tml They should just flat out ban these monster trucks.
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J$
in reply to Veronica Olsen • • •@veronica @tml We should cap our streets to a lower width, adding a few sturdy concrete small problem compensator busters here and there.
Humans need space. Inferiority complex advertisement vehicles donβt.
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in reply to J$ • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Tor Lillqvist • • •You can bet that Ford hasnβt noticed the price of gasoline
The Book of Kels
in reply to Tor Lillqvist • • •These are the trucks you'd take the family to the fairgrounds to see on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •T. J. Bombadil
in reply to Ars Technica • • •The thing is, the Ford F150 never used to be a big truck. In fact, it was on the smaller end of their pickups.
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Niels Nielsen, geographer
in reply to T. J. Bombadil • • •Marcus Schwarz
in reply to Ars Technica • • •Shirley Eugest
in reply to Ars Technica • • •These vehicles are not enough for farm work, and don't quite fit in cities. They allow lorries for cargo.
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in reply to Shirley Eugest • • •@EugestShirley
Yesterday I saw a report posted by DW that covered the use of Toyota Prius by Mongolian herders in the country.
The country buys used electric vehicles in droves and they like that vehicle because itβs particularly robust, but it does leave the problem of the electronic waste
Shirley Eugest
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I can see that. On most European farms, a truck would be used to carry feed and bedding for animals, or a mush more powerful vehicle used to handle crops.
Shirley Eugest
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The problem in cities is size. More and more cities encourage public transportation or bicycles.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Shirley Eugest • • •I think itβs funny that all the cars got stuck, but I donβt see this as a problem except for the period of time it takes to extract these things
François @Jura
in reply to Ars Technica • • •the problem is that in Europe we have beautiful city centres we try to preserve from these monstruosities... except Prague.
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •If one does the math, we europeans pay over twice as much per unit of gas.
Even if you don't care how many pedestrians you kill why would anyone want a guzzler like that???
F#$* off USA, go home and shove your SUV's and pickups up your tailpipes!
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in reply to Reiner Jung π¬π± πΊπ¦ πͺπΊ • • •@prefec2 Tachograph.
Under the section for Germany on the Wikipedia page but as far as I know this also applies here in Norway.
"Tachographs are mandatory for vehicles allowed to carry a total weight of over 3.5 tonnes and vehicles built to carry at least 9 passengers, if the vehicle is used for commercial purposes."
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Tachograph - Wikipedia
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •I say this with family who work construction in some of the most rural parts of the States, 99.99% of people don't need anything bigger than an F150/F250, especially given how fucking massive they are now. The cabs haven't gotten that much bigger while the larger chassis means they feel like you're steering a boat and gas is that much more expensive. Hell, some of the guys that were part of the aforementioned family crew showed up to work in beat to fuck Civics from the 90s and 00s, because they weren't the ones hauling the building materials. They just needed space for their tools.
Hell, if I was part of the crew and needed to occasionally haul materials too, I'd be begging Chevy to bring back the S10. Having a physically smaller truck with not that much smaller of a bed means gas isn't a nightmare and I don't have to treat it like a semi going up a mountain without sacrificing anything I'd actually need.
Maybe it would make sense if you worked on a farm, but as far as I can tell, all of Europe isn't Nebraska. You likely don't have to drive hundreds of miles to get su
... Show more...I say this with family who work construction in some of the most rural parts of the States, 99.99% of people don't need anything bigger than an F150/F250, especially given how fucking massive they are now. The cabs haven't gotten that much bigger while the larger chassis means they feel like you're steering a boat and gas is that much more expensive. Hell, some of the guys that were part of the aforementioned family crew showed up to work in beat to fuck Civics from the 90s and 00s, because they weren't the ones hauling the building materials. They just needed space for their tools.
Hell, if I was part of the crew and needed to occasionally haul materials too, I'd be begging Chevy to bring back the S10. Having a physically smaller truck with not that much smaller of a bed means gas isn't a nightmare and I don't have to treat it like a semi going up a mountain without sacrificing anything I'd actually need.
Maybe it would make sense if you worked on a farm, but as far as I can tell, all of Europe isn't Nebraska. You likely don't have to drive hundreds of miles to get supplies to/from the farm in Czechia or Poland.
Koubik
in reply to Ars Technica • • •Schoenix
in reply to Ars Technica • • •I don't understand why anybody wants to drive such a crappy thing.
I drove one of this beasts (not a F150, but a pickup) once and it was very disappointing. I mean my first and only own car was a small car with 75 HP and this thing had 350 HP so I thought it would be more impressive, but I drove it to the Autobahn kicked the gas and more or less nothing happened.
Dave Mc
in reply to Ars Technica • • •for work vehicles, a van is better pretty much every time. Europeans know this. Security, weather protection, economy, safety...
A neighbour has a Ford Maverick, which is smaller than an F150. He's an earthworks engineering contractor and it's his work vehicle, so the truck is always covered in mud. He has a genuine use of a truck. But even a Maverick doesn't really fit in his parking space.
Exec
in reply to Ars Technica • • •Yet people already import American cars, I'm already seeing some that have a turning indicator shared with the regular lights
See also: youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWβ¦
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
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in reply to Ars Technica • • •Daniel Brotherston
in reply to Ars Technica • • •They didn't care when North Americans weren't interested either.
The auto industry knows something that the Democrats cannot possibly fathom...it is possible to influence what people think and believe.