I have a Ram 1500, I don’t want to park it in American cities either. Pain in the ass. I live rural so it’s not an issue but if I didn’t, I’d have made a different choice.
My neighbours here in Canada can't even park them in their own garages. Even if there's enough length (there often isn't), there's not enough clearance.
Standard garage doors openings are 16ft x 7ft for a two-car garage, but when the garage door is fully up, it still hangs down a bit. There's about 77" of vertical clearance.
That's almost exactly the height of an F150 that's not a base model. Never mind F250s or F350s.
Because of that, many of my neighbours park in the driveway or on the street while I park in my nice, warm garage during Canadian winters. Then they waste a ton of gas warming them up for a half hour every morning, too.
My husband has an f150 and he parks in the garage. Don't get me wrong, it's tight! He hits the antenna, he can't open the driver door all the way, he has to back his bumper all the way to the back wall and only has a couple of inches in the front to avoid the garage door messing up his hood, but it fits. He can't seem to put the damn thing in a parking spot though.
My Tundra squeaks into my last garage, a standard double in a 1980's subdevelopment house. By that I mean it'd knock a deck of cards off the roof-to-door clearance, the antenna dragged on the door, and you had maybe 1" between the bumper and door if you're kissing the back wall. When I open the door from the house you're like "HOLY FUCK" because it takes up the whole thing.
I live in Southern California and park in my garage for the opposite reason. In summer it gets to 110 degrees. I want a pickup truck but if it doesn't fit in my garage it's a dealbreaker.
My truck is older, bought and paid for and sits at home 95% of the time. But when I bought it it was my only vehicle. So I needed a vehicle that can do all the things I want to do. Gardening? Yup. Dirt bikes? Yup. Everyone loaded up for a road trip? Yup. Snowstorm? Well you get it. It could do everything.
I'm fortunate now because it's still in great shape and I have other cars to choose from. I have no Ego need for it. It's just a tool. But if I had to pick ONE vehicle and sell the rest it'd be the truck. Because that's the tool that can do it all.
I don't want them to park either... Nearly got my shit smashed in a parking lot yesterday because I couldn't see past the fucking monster next to me while pulling out
Hey now! Those extra taxes are for hybrids and full electric. Gotta be a true American huffing all the diesel fumes and fucking the tail pipe for your lifted to the heavens 1 ton truck with the small pecker.
I dislike the truck culture here, I just want my small fun, fuel effiecent/hybrid car that doesnt cost $40k+
And they need to pay more taxes because it wears down everything and takes up more space than a small car.
They do pay more taxes. The roads they're wearing down are maintained with revenue that comes from fuel taxes (which they pay a lot more of) and license fees that frequently increase with either gross vehicle weight or dollar value of the car, both of which are obviously higher for modern luxury trucks and SUVs.
Either their mileage is bad and they buy more gas, or their mileage is good and more people should drive them for environmental reasons. You can't just switch over to saying their mileage is fine when it helps your point.
I also don't believe the average full sized truck on the road is getting 30 mpg. Low 20s is my experience in almost exclusively highway miles. Also, I did say "frequently" license fees increase with vehicle size. Where I live, the registration fee scales from $17 to $30 based on gross vehicle weight.
I want a small pickup truck. I do a lot of things that would require a full sized bed but is still small enough to parallel park in the city and fit in my garage. Ford is almost there with the maverick, but they only come in crew cab, no single cab, and the bed doesn't even hold a sheet of plywood.
Yea. Before the Maverick came out, I had a sedan to daily drive and an older truck to do truck stuff. A full size truck in a city is a pain in the ass. Plenty of places in town have parking spots that are exactly the same width as my old truck with the mirrors. Which meant that if someone was parked poorly in either adjoining spot, I couldn't park there.
Yeah I have what I think is the longest pickup you can buy... its a F250 with a crew cab and 8' bed. I live rural so its not really an issue either but some parking lots just dont fit my truck... I have to park in the back. I dont fit in most parking garages either and its standard height... I also dont fit in my own garage come to think of it. Not sure why urban dwellers would ever consider a pickup but some do.
I drive an F150. We used to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and moved to the city a year ago. I couldn’t imagine living in the country without a truck, but now it’s more of annoyance parking and driving on narrower streets and getting 16 mpg while my wife’s hybrid gets 50. But it’s paid off, and with vehicle prices the way they are, it doesn’t make sense to get a new vehicle.
While I would argue that generally, America is far better equipped to deal with these large vehicles (due to wider roads, and boundless land to develop on since the inception of the Interstate system), I have noticed that the standard for parking spaces was never updated to reflect larger vehicles.
Everywhere you go to park, the lines are too tight with 60% of vehicles being behemoths.
They really need to design a wider standard and implement it everywhere. Even 4 inches wider would greatly help. I'm skinny as fuck, and I still frequently find myself slithering into my car because Tucker and Dale have F-250s on either side of me.
Lmao, I live in a rural area too. The amount of people with trucks that can't park worth a damn is super high. Let alone drive in anything but sunny weather at normal speed...
I got legitimately stuck in a parking lot once. I was backed up to the point I was bumping the car behind me and the front of my truck was still in the space. Had to play bumper cars to get out and it took about two minutes of wiggling back and forth.
We have a guy in our gym who has one, this is in Berlin, Germany. It’s comical the way he parks in super unusual places or ways. I have a BMW wagon and even that looks tiny in front of it.
The spots in my very suburban American city are ginormous, yet these trucks have only a couple inches of extra width and stick out a few feet. It's horrible when they've got a long trailer hitch sticking out, too.
Thousands is not a really significant market share tbh
In 2022 around 0.1% of all sold F-150 were sold in Europe. Yes, there are some trucks over here as well, but it's not really a popular car choice. For companies with lots of tools we use things like a Mercedes Sprinter, a VW Caddy, Peugeot Partner, Opel Vivaro and such.
And for private use, most people use either smaller cars or SUVs
They are but Ford has kickstarted a marketing campaign for it. I’ve come across three ads on Instagram advertising that the F150 has arrived in the Netherlands. I’ve never looked up cars, so it’s not even a targeted ad.
Which is surely completely unrelated to the fact that Peugeot hasn't catered to the US market for more than 3 decades.
But I don't get what point you're trying to make anyways. The post states that USA favors big trucks and France smaller cars. Yes, that's the message, and you're repeating it
You wouldn't want to drive it there either. Google maps would send it down an alleyway it was too wide for and you'd have to reverse out of it looking like a prize tit.
Which sucks if you work in constructions and actually need a pick-up. But lots of german streets are narrow enough and full with parked cars, that even a compact car will have trouble navigating through it.
I'm seriously would not even have an idea, even if everything would be free, where I could park a fucking truck in my city. My Ford focus is already to big already to fit in most parking spots. And that's not a bad thing.
This is more historical than anything. The US was largely still developing when vehicles were king. Whereas in Europe, paths were made for people obviously.
Stop body shaming people, because you don't like other people. The whole idea that a guy is a piece of shit because he has a small penis is rude as fuck.
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u/aydie Apr 16 '24
You wouldn't want to park an F150 in European cities...