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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tesla model 3 to be exact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The iPhone of the car world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tesla's have become the new BMW drivers from my experience as of late.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im old fashioned but i still think only dicks drive bmw's

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'm only up voting you for your user name.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NL here: Imported American trucks. You do not need a car that costs €5000/month in fuel alone that you cannot use practically in any way that a van, a regular car or even a bakfiets could do more cost-effectively. The only people who go through the effort to get such a vehicle are compensating for something, and a Dodge Ram in The Netherlands is only useful for dick measuring, and the most significant thing it'll ever move is the owner's fragile ego.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We look at those people the same in the US too tbf lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In NL they have a lot less legitimity, there are no mountains, no huge private farms, no vast plains with subpar roads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

(EU) SUVs. Are you insecure and too stupid to drive? GET A CAR 20% larger in every dimension so you can piss off the whole world with your incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or do you have a genuine reason that makes them advantageous?

I have an SUV because:

  • my mother in law has mobility issues and struggles to get in/out of a saloon.
  • my wife has neck issues and the higher driving position is better for her
  • I like it (ok, that could make me an arsehole)

Truth is that mine (BMW X1) is at most 5cm bigger in any dimension, if at all, than the car on which it is based (Mini Cooper). The extra size is an optical illusion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also - the mass and form of an SUV makes them a good option in terms of safety. Smaller vehicles get crunched like pop cans, and trucks get sandwiched by their own bed if you hit a solid object.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Making yourself safer by making everyone else less safe still seems like an asshole move to me?

Bumper height should have been regulated on city roads, then we wouldn't have gotten this escalation. Work truck, sure. If you need one, you need one. But people who drive a massive gas guzzler to park it at the office and go up the elevator to work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lifted truck rolling coal is 100% an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone with a truck carrying giant flags. If you are in the US, you know what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not one of our best exports

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We breed our own here, too, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lifted trucks. My assurance goes up 10x if they have rims and tires meant for the road.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

My friend and I bought trucks around the same time. Mine is a simple tradesman Ram, no bells and whistles, primarily for moving and hauling stuff that can't fit in my wife's sedan.

I'm a pretty passive driver. Live and let live, y'know?

My friend had a similar personality when he first got his Tundra (of course with all the extras he can afford). Then he goes and spends $10,000 on a lift, winch, and floodlights. Now he's like a different person. He drives super aggressively, whipping round corners, weaving through traffic going 20mph over on the highway. He was driving me through some quiet neighborhood the other day and nearly mowed over a cyclist. I asked him what the hell he was doing and he shrugged and said "if she's gonna ride a bike in the street, she's gotta look out for trucks. Not my fault if she doesn't see me"

TL;DR - truck drivers are fine, a truck is a tool like any other vehicle. Lifting your truck turns you into a redneck scumbag overnight though apparently.