[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people

Both of them are used to transport mostly a single person at a time. Even the small one is too big.

But you forgot that the truck can be used to haul 4 pieces of lumber twice a year!

The golf will also get farther with the same amount of fuel. Way farther.

I'd wager a sizeable number of half-ton pickup trucks are used solely as people movers, i.e. the bed and towing capabilities aren't utilized. In many countries, trade workers more than manage with light vehicles, like kei trucks in Japan, so I think they'd work for the average weekend warrior too.

headlights shouldn't be allowed that high on road vehicles, blinding menace on wheels.

I also started to see more of these in urban areas of europe. Not a huge amount but still recognizable. I dont get why one would buy something like this. You wont even be able to find a proper parking spot for these.

Yes. Both cars fit the same amount of people but one driver is carrying a smaller package.

I think the most absurd is, that even former basic cars like the Polo get bigger and bigger. Modern Polos seem to take up more space than a gen. 1, 2, or even 3 Golf - but with barely more space inside.

Effects are, they take up more public space when curb parking, perversely hindering their brothers to get through. Some just barely fit single garages built in the 50ies, totally inconveniencing the driver trying to get out. One'd thing people buying these would see these self created problems, but apparently not.

I'm seeing these in London now. Why are we importing the absolute worst of US transportation fucks ups?

How else are you going to let people know you lost the genetic lottery?

Can you store up to 10 corpses on that Polo?

It seems like a lot of people here don't understand that circumstances might be different in different places. This post itself assumes the only reason is to transport people, but the truck can do more than that.

If I lived in a rural place and needed something that could tow, transport, and go over tougher terrain, I could see the usefulness of having a truck around. Not everything is in a comfy city where everything is within a couple miles.

Now where I currently live, I'd never dream of getting a truck like that. So much hassle and the roads are too small. But I could see it being useful for someone else.

Get the Ordnungsamt involved, it's illegal to park like that. It's too heavy and big to try to park like a car.

I see those pick-ups all the time and almost never are they properly parked. Just like in the picture lmao.

In most of the EU, you'll get a hefty fine for parking on the pavement. Take a picture wirh the license number and report anonymously.

However, only a single car possesses the ability to signal your fellow drivers about the astonishingly delicate nature of your masculinity.

It's about bumper height more than anything else

Well, not the same amount of people. The truck can only carry the same number of people, but only guys with small dicks.

Polo but yeah. The size difference is crazy. Who actually needs such a vehicle?

Depens if they are dead or alive. That truck could hold a lot or corpses.

Only one of them fits a man with a small dick

the red one can haul so much more corpse at the back though. yours can't.

Bro what? They had to pull up on the curb to fit in a space. That's ridiculous .

You might be right about the passengers, but from a relatives point of view, only the pickup works for his line of work. I won't go into details, but it involves transporting machines from site to site and using them there. His pickup is only used for work, he has a Volvo V60 as daily driver.

I see no problem with large cars as long as there is justifications for that specific vehicle.

If you chop them into pieces, you can fit more "people" in the back.

I owned an f150 for 11 years. It's honestly been my favorite vehicle. However, in the time I owned it, I used it to tow my motorcycles and race gear, I renovated almost every room in my house, and I had a seven kilometer drive to work. It was an extremely useful vehicle. Anyone that needs a truck will immediately argue with you that they aren't necessary... For some people. My kids got a little older, and I need to drive them and their friends around, I sold the bikes, and I sold the truck for 50% of what I paid for it. I bought a 6 seater explorer. You may not like trucks, but they have their uses. If they sold UTEs in the USA/Canada I would have bought one in a second. I used to carry a tow strap too to pull civics out of the ditch during snow storms.

I bet I could get more people and stuff in the truck than the golf... Not comfortably, but still... A lot more.

But only one says you have a tiny penis

can put 5 or 6 more in the bed.

Of course it’s a dOdGe rAm 1500 hD that’s parked partially on the side walk

6 vs. 5. But I get your point.

They might fit the same amount of people, but not the same amount of overblown ego.

It is too big, but the form factor is still important. We upgraded from a Jeep to a Yukon Denali because we are very poor and live in Fuck All, Nowhere and need to haul groceries and furniture from the city.

With that said, none of us three friends and housemates like testosterone, and we are careful about how we drive and where we park. We do our best! <3

That's a polo not a golf, so while it's big it not quiet as big as portrayed

I understand not liking unnecessary large trucks with giant wheels that have never seen dirt in their lives. The same guys that like to rev their engine anytime they leave. But this just looks like a standard work truck. Maybe the back is full of tools? Maybe he's going camping. Camping is dope.

It's not about how many people you can fit, it's about how much potatoes you can fit.

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It's not a car though, that's the point right?

I'm sorry that these are starting to show up outside of North America.

I'm bothered when Americans call a truck a car. I'm being picky, but they are not the same thing.

You could fit more people in the truck if you had a decent circular saw.

You mean living people?

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I'm against draining the tires of cars, but in cases like this I'd consider making an exception... if it's a commercial vehicle, buddy should get it licensed as such.

Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, that driver of that truck is the one who is doing your bathroom/kitchen/whatever remodel and NEEDS that room to carry the supplies for that work?

ITT: I need to carry and tow things sometimes and have never heard of a van

Dont get Europe confused with whatever urbanite area you live in. Europe is diverse and some places benefit from vehicles like this.

The problem is that when you have a family to protect, you're faced with the choice of going on the road in a tiny car that will not survive a crash with those big vehicles. It's really an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality.

The truck is intended to haul things, they have different use cases.

Also, the truck can carry people in the bed as well (unsafely of course)

Fuck both of them though, they're still cars.

To be fair, the van can fit waaaayyy more stuff in the back. Good luck getting your big work machinery in that normal car. They're made for different tasks entirely.

That said, the van doesn't need to be anywhere near that ridiculously large whatsoever and could still store the same amount of tools and people, it's incredibly dumb design for people with deep inadequacies.

One of them can haul 4 of the other ones.

I wouldn't call my 911 big....

That's because one is a truck

Yeah moron. One can fit people AND haul things. What a dumbass comparison.

Cool, how much can the Polo fit in the back? How much can it tow? What's it's off road capabilities?

Whether people actually use those capabilities is a different question, but these vehicles are in no way equal.

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now do 2x4s or couches

But not the same volume of people. You'd have to grease me up pretty good to wedge me into that roller skate.

Do you know what a truck is used for? And the differences between a car and truck?

I'm starting to think everyone subbed here is mentally ill

Tell me you've never built anything with your hands in your life and you're dick-ashamed about it, without telling me you've never built anything with your hands in your life and you're totally dickshamed about it.

I mean... No. They do not. The car fits 4 tiny people.

I'm 6'4. I drove tiny sedans for years, for all the reasons you'd think.It was physically painful for me. I finally couldn't do it anymore. In no way would my tall family fit in that tiny car.

Are trucks way too big? Yes. Should public transport be easily accessible and prioritized? Absolutely. Is the seating in those vehicles the same. Not at all.