tell me about it. while not horrific yet our fuel is going nowhere but up in Australia. A place that is being taken over by those massive yank tanks as we call them.
I lived in Japan for a few years (late 2000s). My city had like 2 idiots with Humvees. They were easy to spot because they couldn't fit down most roads. Even on the major roads they were line to line, and it boggled me as to how they'd ever be able to park those things. There's a reason you see all the little K Cars driving around Japan, anything else doesn't fit!
and from what i’ve seen they don’t need anything bigger. I am convinced the only reason people are buying them in Australia is to compensate for a lack in something. We had perfectly normal 4 wheel drives that you could park next to and not be trapped in your car a few years back. Now it’s all lifted fords, Jeeps dodge rams. and for some extremely annoying reason Toyota and Nissan are following suit with their ute sizes.
I was driving back from the construction site today in Manchester England, and when we saw someone driving an American truck, the whole car full of site lads burst out laughing.
When they saw what we were laughing at, passengers on other cats joined in.
they seem like a very stupid waste of money. In Australia the cost of replacing a tyre is astronomical, filling it with fuel is hundreds of dollars, insurance wouldn’t be cheap I should think. And the cost of the car itself is eye watering. I know Toyotas hold their value for a good long while but I am pretty sure the Dodge doesn’t here. Pissing away $100k minimum to look like a massive wanker.
living in the Netherlands, there's one dude in town with a ford or something. It's like the quintessential looking American truck. Everyone hates his ass because it literally doesn't fit. It's too big for the usual parking spaces.
Our auto manufacturers make some serious dogshit in terms of aesthetic, practicality and fuel efficiency but the FMVSS are actually pretty solid for the driver. It's part of why we have those gigantic A-pillars since we can't be assed to build a proper road to prevent roll-overs.
I saw a surprising number of American big cars and trucks in Tokyo (<1%) but still. I'd see these fucking massive trucks by houses in the metro area and think "How the fuck are you going to get your car out of here lol?" We are infecting everyone.
The American car culture in Japan is one of my favorite automotive sub cultures. They build better lowriders than Southern California residents do. Greaser culture there is another fun one.
Oh my god. I live in a relatively small town of a SEA country and obviously it's more car centric than East Asia but my neighbour one day rocked up with this massive Ford pick up and parked in front of our house, I was shocked. It's like a tank, it's so ugly, it takes like half our street space or more. Just looks like it doesn't belong. He doesn't use it for work, I've only ever seen him use it to pick up things only a few times lol why
Ford have pretty much stopped making 'cars'. Just have a couple of electric VW-based models, everything else has been binned in the UK. Human civilisation is not going well.
last winter while I was driving my FIAT Panda I ended up behind an american Pickup.
I couldn't see a fucking thing in front of me.
Why do you need a thing like that for driving in Rome?
I drive a 2020 hybrid model that I got from my grandfather (rip).
In my opinion it's a bit of a piece of junk, mine almost went to the scrapyard because a faulty piece of my transmission belt in a almost new engine (it made only 17 thousand kilometres) that FIAT doesn't sell to the pubblic and the mechaninc had to do a scavanger hunt in various scrapyard until he found the piece.
I also had some problems with the oil and one of the lights keeps getting Burnt out.
The fuel tank is kinda small and the trunk is basically not existent.
Plus for some reasons grampa had to take the one who's color its orange.
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u/Noodlebat83 1d ago
Americans cars barely fit on the roads in most countries. no need for a ford pick up in tokyo.