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.
Europeans can vote with their wallets and boycott nonsensical vehicles from the fascist country across the pond. They don’t have to wait for their increasingly corrupt powers that be to do the work for them you know…
Well, it’s not final. I remember a time - in Belgium I thnk - when a utility vehicle was defined as having no backseats for passengers. Scores of people registered Porsches and other obviously passenger cars with the backseats removed as tax-exempt minivans.
Belgium put a stop to that and suddenly, all those backseat-less sportscars got taxed like they ought to be. Just like that, retroactively.
The same thing can happen with your vroom-vroom-loving neighbor very quickly.
A few years ago, seeing a US style pickup truck in Germany was very rare. Those that were around were usually genuine work vehicles. But now you see more and more douchemobiles that clearly serve no other purpose than to boost their owners’ fragile egos.
They are extremely impractical. With the standard sized American pick-up, You get virtually no loading space on the footprint of a decently sized van powered by an engine that guzzles fuel like no tomorrow. Unless you absolutely need 4x4 and low overall vehicle height in combination, you’re better off with a van. If you need that combination of features to do some actual work, better get a Hilux, because that’s a seriously mass produced vehicle for which you’ll easily get spare parts and that can be repaired with metric tools. If you actually need a pick-up with dead serious off-road capabilities, get the pick-up version of the Land Rover Defender. Instead of one of those extremely large pick-ups with twin tyres on the rear axle, as you see over in the US, you can simply get a proper truck, which offers better visibility, far superior loading space to footprint ratio, and, thanks to European workplace safety regulations, more comfort, because it has mandatory air suspension in the driver’s seat.
Except the endangered pedestrians aren’t the buyers… The rules are to protect the pedestrians from buyers that value their purchase above the safety of others
They can, but propaganda works. A few commercials of driving those things over pristine wilderness and throw in some sex - boom Every idiot wanker has one.
Europeans can vote with their wallets and boycott nonsensical vehicles from the fascist country across the pond. They don’t have to wait for their increasingly corrupt powers that be to do the work for them you know…
When you’re voting with your wallet, people with bigger wallets have bigger votes, and those guys tend to not be on the right side of most issues.
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Well, it’s not final. I remember a time - in Belgium I thnk - when a utility vehicle was defined as having no backseats for passengers. Scores of people registered Porsches and other obviously passenger cars with the backseats removed as tax-exempt minivans.
Belgium put a stop to that and suddenly, all those backseat-less sportscars got taxed like they ought to be. Just like that, retroactively.
The same thing can happen with your vroom-vroom-loving neighbor very quickly.
Depends on what’s actually in the trade deal.
But yeah, hopefully we can tax the yank tanks out of Europe if we can’t ban them outright.
A few years ago, seeing a US style pickup truck in Germany was very rare. Those that were around were usually genuine work vehicles. But now you see more and more douchemobiles that clearly serve no other purpose than to boost their owners’ fragile egos.
They are extremely impractical. With the standard sized American pick-up, You get virtually no loading space on the footprint of a decently sized van powered by an engine that guzzles fuel like no tomorrow. Unless you absolutely need 4x4 and low overall vehicle height in combination, you’re better off with a van. If you need that combination of features to do some actual work, better get a Hilux, because that’s a seriously mass produced vehicle for which you’ll easily get spare parts and that can be repaired with metric tools. If you actually need a pick-up with dead serious off-road capabilities, get the pick-up version of the Land Rover Defender. Instead of one of those extremely large pick-ups with twin tyres on the rear axle, as you see over in the US, you can simply get a proper truck, which offers better visibility, far superior loading space to footprint ratio, and, thanks to European workplace safety regulations, more comfort, because it has mandatory air suspension in the driver’s seat.
Yup. This is the best argument for regulations because voting with your wallet isn‘t as democratic as it sounds.
You could shame them for being a stupid asshole buying it.
I seriously hope people start vandalizing these things, I think that would go further than voting with their wallets.
Except the endangered pedestrians aren’t the buyers… The rules are to protect the pedestrians from buyers that value their purchase above the safety of others
Consumers does have a lot of power but consumers seems to be influenced a lot and not reflect “logical” and “human” in their choice.
They can, but propaganda works. A few commercials of driving those things over pristine wilderness and throw in some sex - boom Every idiot wanker has one.
Yeah, no… that will not work. People always want the biggest dick, car, home whatever… Some people will buy them for sure.