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Large vehicles do have their uses, but not in the Chelsea Tractor kind of way we're seeing more of each day.
A lot of these things (looking at you, Ford Ranger) have no business doing the shopping trips and school runs. It takes only seconds and a stroke of bad luck for a kid to wander and stop infront while the driver's looking elsewhere, getting ready to go...
Yeah, I drive an old Ford Ranger/Mazda bt50, and I parked next to one of the new ones the other day. The thing is massive, took up the whole parking space it was in so cars next to it couldn’t open their doors, and had the bed way up in the air so loading it would be a pain in the ass. Same size bed but less carrying weight because it’s so big, same tow capacity, very similar size inside, just pointlessly massive outside. All the aggressive styling makes you look like you’ve got a micropenis to compensate for, and it’s much less useful for its intended purpose.
I live in the middle of nowhere, so a pickup is pretty essential, but anyone who owns one of these in a town needs a crew-cab van realistically, pickups are hopeless in urban areas
We don't need to copy America's homework for everything. I reckon we should stick with normal sized cars at most lol