Shit should be straight up illegal to own and operate.
I came here for this comment.
A former colleague once complained to me that they could never find a parking spot for their humongous SUV in Berlin and that the city should be more accommodating in that regard. They weren’t even a permanent resident or a commuter but a foreign diplomat.
To my discredit I wasn’t assertive enough back then to calmly explain public transportation to them, I was just dumbfounded.My mental response to that kind of people is,
“You chose to be the problem. Have you tried not being one?”
My mental response to that kind of people is,
“You chose to be the problem. Have you tried not being one?”
I do admit that it sounds catchy in my head, too. But I don’t think it would be a good or practical approach to convince others, starting off a retort with an ad-hominem right away 😅
Maybe then this:
“If the others are the problem, then why do you choose to have a big vehicle that has trouble parking?”
Maybe then this:
“If the others are the problem, then why do you choose to have a big vehicle that has trouble parking? Couldn’t you get a smaller vehicle that’s easier to step into, can transport just as easily, and is cheaper in terms of fuel usage?”
Much better, and it automatically picks a fight with the advertising industry (that has a very clear answer to that question), so double-plus good.
The “Simpsons” nailed it…
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five… Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down, It’s the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown! Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero! [Krusty:] Hey Hey The Federal Highway commission has ruled the Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving. Canyonero! 12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!) She blinds everybody with her super high beams, She’s a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine! Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!) Drive Canyonero! Woah Canyonero! Woah! Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Alf Clausen / Donick Cary Canyonero lyrics © Fox Music, Inc
I’ve just watched the clip. Is it a parody of the Rawhide theme song or am I imagining it?
I didn’t recognize that but now that you say it that’s all I can hear.
Hell, get them out of America, too. They’re massive and block vision at intersections even if the streets are supposedly wide enough. And the drivers are always clueless and entitled at best and openly hostile at worst on top of their own reduced vision. “But I can see everyone because I’m up so high” the fuck you can.
I just got back from visiting my parents in Texas. I’m like 189 cm or so, and some of the hoods on those trucks came up to my chin. Madness.
Mechanics now need stepladders to work on those trucks. There is no reason for that design other than intimidation.
Even if:
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someone has managed to bring a vehicle into a European country despite being illegal
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or if he has even managed to get papers from a EU country, so that he can bring it to all EU countries
…then the police can still pull illegal vehicles off the road.
The driver can walk home.
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Heavy vehicles are dangerous. F=ma, they are harder to slow down, hit with more energy in a crash. There should be weight limits to vehicles any asshole can just buy.
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ah, but America does it best, the EV Hummer weighs 9,063 lbs, or 4110 Kg. At speed, that will kill anyone in any car it hits, and the car in front of it.
They aren’t illegal when they get type approval
That’s too much of a generalisation.
For example, around here the young drivers love to attach some extra aftermarket parts on their cars. And these things have papers, too. Still the police decides sometimes to pull one out.
The police can decide on their own what they think is dangerous. Of course in a case of a type approval they would usually not doubt at all that things are OK.
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100% this. I see the SUVs a lot when I’m even in the Netherlands. I thought we were over this, right? These things always make life, especially for kids, worse everywhere they’re introduced to the street. (Yes there should be an exception for farms where they could be useful, but they should only be given license plates if property of and used exclusively by farming or construction companies, if at all. Heck, even to many construction companies, it’s probably better to use a full-size flatbed truck or trailer to transport lumber.
No, even for farms we don’t need them. We managed perfectly fine without them. Why should we make exceptions?
Make the EU shut up again!
Mercosur by stupid Uschi v.d.L. is the same but worse. while e vehicles are on the rise in south america the EU disrupts this with Mercosur allowing shit german manufacturers to sell of their old combustion shit for several more decades.
Keep european cars in europe. Stop german car manufacturing.
Dont buy German Cars ANYWHERE.