I just want a small vehicle what can tow shit, is that too much to ask
I fucking hate the public safety amnesia around this, we knew this would happen, that is why cars weren’t designed like that before.
Even the trucks have gunts.
Anything over 4.5 tons needs a truck license and is speed limited to 100km. A RAM is 4.48 tons.
That’s not even close to being true - a RAM 1500 is 2620kg. Still really heavy, but not close to the cut off
That GVM, vehicle plus load for a RAM 2500.
Sounds like it falls in the under 5Ton category then? Even fully loaded?
4.5tons. It fits by a few kilos.
these cars aren’t safe and should be made illegal, like other unsafe profucts from the USA.
and people from the usa
I wonder if these utes are less safe for the occupants as well. They are taller and heavier than most cars making them less safe in corners and needing a bigger braking distance to stop
Remember, even twenty years ago, cars were a lot narrower, people could park on both sides of a street and two cars could pass going opposite directions. Then some prick in the US decided ‘trucks’ didn’t need to follow environmental protection laws, a dick waving marketing campaign ensued, and here we are, stopping to let people pass on roads that were designed not to need that.
Just make rego higher on wide vehicles. Fortunately the switch to EVs gives us a once in a generation chance to change things back from US stupidity.
TLDR: Tax Vehicle Girth.
make them require LR – Light Rigid licence. if you really “need it for work”, no worries, just do the course.
Charge rego by the kilo, or by road surface area. It’s crazy that they cost the same to put on the road as a 900kg hatch.
Rego in NSW does scale by weight. Other states should bring that in if they don’t already. However, that hasn’t stopped yank tanks from flooding NSW roads. They should also require an LR licence since they are literally the size of a truck.
Bonus points if you make the fee scale by weight to the fourth power, to match the relative impact it has on road wear
Also torso damage when you flatten a pedestrian.
I was going to say just put a stupid-tax on them, but I guess Trump has kinda done that with the price of diesel.
And remove the tax concessions for using them as ‘work’ vehicles.
I’ll be honest, remove it for any fucking ute that doesnt literally have a motorised compressor, pump or similar bolted to the tray.
98% of tradies can do their shit out of a van, they just want a swanky ute they can be an utter cunt on the road with. And they can go get fucked.
90% of them can do it out of a hatchback. They just need a gender affirming vehicle.
These vehicles are primarily personal use in Canada. And I couldn’t care less about personal vehicle choice. However…. In my observations here I often see. 1. A single driver. 2. That they far too often follow stupidly close behind me. It feels like some weird dominance/intimidation game by them. And I don’t have the time or interest to play along. This is real here, others have mentioned similar observations to me.
Unfortunately the phenomenon is not limited to Canada. I think statesia accidentally’d your Alberta or something.
Same here in Australia, at least with the ford rangers, and toyota hilux’s. They became the most popular cars in Australia, even though the majority of Australians live in cities. The drivers love to tailgate. No doubt they are slowly being replaced with these even stupider, and larger utes. Chances are most of them will also be road coloured too.
Yeah, no shit. They shouldn’t even be road legal here imo.
I live in truck country. But no worries, there are effectively no pedestrians. Everyone knows they would die if they walked in the road. It’s mostly the commercial size trucks killing people though, they’re everywhere around me and they’re much bigger and heavier than our pickups, and they can’t stop quickly.
Fucking shocked fucking pikachu fucking face
No shit and waters wet…
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway be a nightmare otherwise. Its a rolling battering ram…
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway
News to me, I think they look like giant look at me signs that say I have a tiny pecker and/or extreme insecurity in my person. They’re a red flag, and anybody who has one i try to avoid.
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway
No, they really don’t
I was being facetious, I thought that was obvious.
Are you really surprised? This is a text based medium. Poe’s law exists.
Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.[1][2][3]
FYI for anyone reading this who doesn’t know.
Of course, that’s what they are made to do.
There is a point system in the usa, the more you hit the higher your score.
They aren’t trucks.
