This is what happens when one country expects the rest of the world to adjust their products to cater specifically to them. You have to be a superpower to do that, which Britain hasn't been for over 200 years now. You can either build your own cars or widen your roads. Our cars being too big for your roads isn't our problem. It's yours.
The increased size of trucks has nothing to do with consumer demand and has everything to do with increased EPA standards completely fucking over everyone and anyone trying to purchase a vehicle nowadays.
But there still is demand for it. I live in an area where women literally fight tooth and nail to save up money for a truck they can barely even drive because its size is so massive compared to their capabilities. The kind who literally shiver when a big engine revs near them.
They are women, so I'm sure they got market psyopped into getting into it, but there is legitimate demand for it from them (and the guys who want to fuck them) now.
My mother likes to ride in my dad's SUV over my brother's sedan because it sits higher over the road and it's less claustrophobic. I wouldn't be surprised if women buy xboxhueg trucks just to "feel safe" (as women are wont to do).
And yet that extra large size means they can drive it even worse than normal "women drivers" and now can just skirt by by destroying everything they hit and driving away fine instead of getting crushed like they would in a smaller car.
The "feel safe" line is the one they always use, and they are much safer in it. Its just everyone else is far less safe in exchange, and their lack of safety prior was a result of their own poor abilities.
When my Ford Focus broke beyond repair and I had to shop for a new vehicle, I ended up replacing it with a big ass SUV. Why? Because:
It's 1000% more comfortable. I had no idea how cramped I was in sedans until I actually got to test drive pick-up trucks and SUVs.
It's a much more pleasurable driving experience sitting high off the road. You get to see a lot more than you do in a sedan.
I feel safer driving around tractor trailers, other large vehicles, and EVs (which weigh as much as large pick-up trucks despite the smaller profile).
I can absolutely understand why a mother who has to haul children around would opt for one of these. I encourage the critics to test drive a pick-up or large SUV so that they can better understand the appeal.
All valid, I loved my old Dodge Ram and miss all those exact things that you listed among others compared to my current smaller shitter.
The ones I was specifically talking about up there goes well beyond that, because you get all of that without massively jacking the truck up, getting tires that extend 8 inches off the side of your vehicle, and having the turning radius of a semi without the driving capability of a CDL.
Yet I see a well above zero number of women behind the wheels of those for no reason other than pure hedonism. Especially as their height relative to the truck means its useless for children or errands because they need a two step letter minimum to get in and out.
And the demand for trucks like that has certainly effected the "minimum size" of a vehicle slowly rising and slowly pushing the average towards "beyond what many parking lots and streets are made to handle."
I yearn for the days of big V8s in coupes and sedans. Dodge were the only ones doing it, and now they switched to electric because of the EPAs horseshit.
Back before my Charger died because of electrical problems (thanks MoPar you pieces of shit) that thing barely had to work to do daily commute shit. It was awesome, now my I4 has to constantly sit at 7k RPM just to get me down the road. Fuck, Ford puts turbo'd I3's in their shitboxes just to get the power necessary to have any performance whatsoever.
Besides putting turbos in shitboxes, you have car manufacturers adding shit like engine start-stop or cylinder deactivation just to min/max their company-wide average MPG, all of which destroys the engine with extra mechanical wear.
That doesn't make any sense. Increased EPA standards would put pressure on the manufacturers to make smaller, lighter cars. Larger cars are being bought despite those standards because of demand for them. The market for anything is driven by demand from the bottom. If they try to force change from the top by offering more smaller cars, people just won't buy them and they will go out of business.
The issue is car companies lobbied to get those gas-guzzling retardmobiles classified as "light trucks," which places them in a contrived category between consumer vehicles and commercial vehicles. Hence the regulations don't apply to them.
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This is what happens when one country expects the rest of the world to adjust their products to cater specifically to them. You have to be a superpower to do that, which Britain hasn't been for over 200 years now. You can either build your own cars or widen your roads. Our cars being too big for your roads isn't our problem. It's yours.
The increased size of trucks has nothing to do with consumer demand and has everything to do with increased EPA standards completely fucking over everyone and anyone trying to purchase a vehicle nowadays.
But there still is demand for it. I live in an area where women literally fight tooth and nail to save up money for a truck they can barely even drive because its size is so massive compared to their capabilities. The kind who literally shiver when a big engine revs near them.
They are women, so I'm sure they got market psyopped into getting into it, but there is legitimate demand for it from them (and the guys who want to fuck them) now.
My mother likes to ride in my dad's SUV over my brother's sedan because it sits higher over the road and it's less claustrophobic. I wouldn't be surprised if women buy xboxhueg trucks just to "feel safe" (as women are wont to do).
And yet that extra large size means they can drive it even worse than normal "women drivers" and now can just skirt by by destroying everything they hit and driving away fine instead of getting crushed like they would in a smaller car.
The "feel safe" line is the one they always use, and they are much safer in it. Its just everyone else is far less safe in exchange, and their lack of safety prior was a result of their own poor abilities.
So basic woman stuff as always.
When my Ford Focus broke beyond repair and I had to shop for a new vehicle, I ended up replacing it with a big ass SUV. Why? Because:
It's 1000% more comfortable. I had no idea how cramped I was in sedans until I actually got to test drive pick-up trucks and SUVs.
It's a much more pleasurable driving experience sitting high off the road. You get to see a lot more than you do in a sedan.
I feel safer driving around tractor trailers, other large vehicles, and EVs (which weigh as much as large pick-up trucks despite the smaller profile).
I can absolutely understand why a mother who has to haul children around would opt for one of these. I encourage the critics to test drive a pick-up or large SUV so that they can better understand the appeal.
All valid, I loved my old Dodge Ram and miss all those exact things that you listed among others compared to my current smaller shitter.
The ones I was specifically talking about up there goes well beyond that, because you get all of that without massively jacking the truck up, getting tires that extend 8 inches off the side of your vehicle, and having the turning radius of a semi without the driving capability of a CDL.
Yet I see a well above zero number of women behind the wheels of those for no reason other than pure hedonism. Especially as their height relative to the truck means its useless for children or errands because they need a two step letter minimum to get in and out.
And the demand for trucks like that has certainly effected the "minimum size" of a vehicle slowly rising and slowly pushing the average towards "beyond what many parking lots and streets are made to handle."
I yearn for the days of big V8s in coupes and sedans. Dodge were the only ones doing it, and now they switched to electric because of the EPAs horseshit.
Back before my Charger died because of electrical problems (thanks MoPar you pieces of shit) that thing barely had to work to do daily commute shit. It was awesome, now my I4 has to constantly sit at 7k RPM just to get me down the road. Fuck, Ford puts turbo'd I3's in their shitboxes just to get the power necessary to have any performance whatsoever.
The EPA is retarded.
Besides putting turbos in shitboxes, you have car manufacturers adding shit like engine start-stop or cylinder deactivation just to min/max their company-wide average MPG, all of which destroys the engine with extra mechanical wear.
That doesn't make any sense. Increased EPA standards would put pressure on the manufacturers to make smaller, lighter cars. Larger cars are being bought despite those standards because of demand for them. The market for anything is driven by demand from the bottom. If they try to force change from the top by offering more smaller cars, people just won't buy them and they will go out of business.
It makes perfect sense when the EPA standards are fucking insane.
There is nothing natural about the market demand for cars in America.
The issue is car companies lobbied to get those gas-guzzling retardmobiles classified as "light trucks," which places them in a contrived category between consumer vehicles and commercial vehicles. Hence the regulations don't apply to them.