Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅♂️
"US carmakers have accused Brussels of keeping their largest pick-up trucks, including the Ford F-150, the Chevy Silverado and the Ram 1500, off European roads”
https://www.ft.com/content/3eb796fd-bcdb-4a9f-89b7-f7d5e692a3cd
@fj incredible cultural insensitivity from Brussels, don't they know that the F150 is Ford's *smallest* truck in that line?
Edit: for context the f-350 is 6.8 m long and 2.4 m wide, it's a common vanity truck in the US, I often see them without a scratch and with no dirt as though they'd never left the pavement (ah, the link is for the f-350 so ok) 🤣
@wronglang @fj just checked what parking places (e.g. in cities, on the side of residential roads, etc.) are specced for here.
The whole parking space (with air, i.e. road, pedestrian path, other parking spaces on the side, not walls) is at least 2m wide and 3.35m long. This includes room for mirrors, to exit on the sides, and the front/back overhang when driving through to the kerb stop.
Your vehicle must fit into this, or you will find insufficient parking everywhere.
@mirabilos @fj I mean I drive an early 2010s Chevy Sonic because here a car is required to survive so you didn't have to convince me.
They really don't care about anybody else's use of space
Frédéric Jacobs
Krzysztof Sakrejda
mirabilos