Those cars aren’t made for the citys in France : they way to large to park and on small road crossing another vehicle make it very difficult.

US cars are weirdly oversized gas slurpers that have very poor safety standards.

I think they’re also taxed massively in most of the EU?

Those trucks are asshole-status symbols, like sports cars used to be.

Don’t lose sight of the goals. The problem isn’t fuel guzzling large trucks, it’s cars.

Nearly nobody needs them here. For what would a normal person need a Pickup truck in Europe? Except maybe for gardening businesses.

And apart from that “no need” issue, those things are way to expensive. Horrible insurance rates, high taxes, and gas guzzlers on top. With fuel prices in the 8 to 10 USD per gallon, filling up the tank of such a beast costs a fortune. There is a reason why Europeans prefer smaller, more fuel efficient cars.

And: in the US, car manufacturers have bought the law that anything below “truck” of a kind is to weak to pull any kind of trailer. Which was done to make people unecessarily buy bigger and more expensive cars.

Funny, thought, that all over Europe people use normal cars to legally and safe pull trailers that would be illegal in the US. My car can pull a 1.8t trailer. In the US, I would have to use a truck for this kind of load.

As an Aussie, we have way too many of those emotional support yank tanks here, not only are they straight up compensation alert machine, they don’t fit anywhere, overpriced and not all that capable compared to alternative vehicle designed for purpose, and build quality is kinda shit.

Can we call them fascism trucks now???

They are also garbage vehicles, long gone are the days of American innovation or quality. The most innovative American car these days is a Tesla, and well, yea they aren’t good at all, they aren’t even the best american EV. Buying an american car in europe is a status symbol showing that you have more money than sense.