Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    924·
    1 year ago

    Show me how you transport a ton of gravel in your car please (and remember, a ton is more than the towing capacity of the vast majority of cars, so no cheating!)

    • gamermanh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      362·
      1 year ago

      The places around me will deliver it for quite cheap so the uh, 2 times in my life I need that I’ll just do that?

      How often does the average person haul tons of earthen materials around?

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        818·
        1 year ago

        In my case multiple times a year… plus construction material, furniture, motorcycles… In the end I need to haul heavy shit multiple times a month.

        Yet, people would take pictures of my SUV and call me an idiot with no respect for driving a big vehicle… With a 4 cylinders that has a fuel consumption that’s the same (or better) as AWD cars that these same people don’t criticize???

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            83·
            1 year ago

            All highway, 8.2L/100km, mixed, 9.5L/100km.

            AWD cars with similar power (so mostly V6) are higher than that, even more so if I include towing capacity in the comparison.

          • sphericth0r@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Just do a little bit of research into the fuel efficiency of various sized vehicles, the correlation is not direct and some larger vehicles get better gas mileage than smaller vehicles strictly due to efficiency. A small inefficient motor and a large efficient motor may yield the same mpg, but the large efficient motor is extracting more power from the same fuel source. And that’s not even getting into diesel versus gasoline…

        • Apollo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          I think its fair if people call you an idiot for buying an SUV to haul shit - there are far better vehicles for the job.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Yes, better drive a truck instead of taking my trailer with me just when it’s necessary, so I take more space and have worse fuel economy 👍

            • Apollo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              I mean with reasoning skills like that I’m not sure you should be qualified to drive either of those things lol

                  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    2·
                    1 year ago

                    What? Are you so obtuse that you couldn’t detect the sarcasm when I said it would be a better idea to listen to you and to drive a truck so I would take more space and burn more gas? Are you fucking serious now?

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      I have a small trailer. Towing capacity of my 2003 Subaru WRX is 1500 lbs. So I guess two trips? Truth be told, that’s why I have the trailer. For when I need to move a decent volume of random crap for work.

      I don’t think the people here are complaining about pickups when used for work, but they are shit vehicles for daily driving. And, this is my personal opinion, crew cabs are usually not utilized to transport workers. More than not, I expect they are because they think they’ll take the family or kids in it. Even then they usually drive without any passengers.

      I get that a lot of workers don’t want to have two vehicles, but pickups are not good daily drivers.