After a deeper investigation it was found that there are no standards at all anymore. /s
I saw two lifted white trucks parked not too far from me earlier this week. They legit looked like monster trucks. Like, if I was still a kid, and it was still the 90’s, and I saw those trucks I did the other day, I had thought they were monster trucks for a show, just- not painted. its wild.
My fave was the one i saw awkwardly trying to back out of the entrance to the warrigal rd carwash because they told him to fuck off they weren’t running it. Dunno what the dude thought that car would give him but i doubt was a queue of subi drivers pointing and laughing
I want a smaller 4wd with lots of clearance (as a backup). What I want is a Jimny, but BEV with lots of range.
The only car I can find with my requirements at the moment is the Trailseeker or Solterra.
I drive a jeep at the moment. But, I don’t want a large car.
Tired of Dodge RAM drivers and other large utes using their big size as an excuse for bad parking, and driving like shit. Instead, they should be driven at a better standard. At my local IGA, the other day, there were literally 4 cars using at least 11 spots…
At the very least, they should be double demerit
if everyone with lots of money could go out and buy a subaru uncharted now, so i can pick one up in a few years 2nd hand to replace my XV… that would be kinda perfect.
I don’t think my Jeep will last a few years anymore. It cost me 10K in the last 2 years… I can’t afford a trailseeker, so, may need a car loan
We can file this one under no shit sherlock
these cars aren’t safe and should be made illegal, like other unsafe profucts from the USA.
and people from the usa
We don’t hate individuals.
There is no war but the class war, and I don’t care where you’re from, only what your personal politics are.
People from the USA, don’t listen to this person.
If you could topple your ruling class and stop your country being imperialistic, that’d be superb.
Your lack of class (yet again) is not a war.
The fuck are you on about?
Anyway, hating on any group of people just because of their national origin is a terrible opinion.
Hate the polity, hate the group’s actions as a whole, but predjuice against someone just because their background is ridiculous.
I fucking hate the public safety amnesia around this, we knew this would happen, that is why cars weren’t designed like that before.
I just want a small vehicle what can tow shit, is that too much to ask
Yep. I don’t even need to tow. I just want a BEV with enough range, with good clearance. The Trailseeker is the only one that has what I need.
I want a BEV jimny basically. Not a shark 6.
Anything over 4.5 tons needs a truck license and is speed limited to 100km. A RAM is 4.48 tons.
Drop the threshold to 4
The Importer de-rated their carrying capacity to keep them under the limit for what can be driven on a car licence.
is speed limited to 100km.
and also would require the driver to not exceed 0.00 BAC.
I wonder how the instant asset write off dropping to $20,000 (down from $150,000 in previous years!?!) has affected the sales of these vehicles.
Yeah. They need to lower, and set a lower physical length limit. At my local IGA the other day, there were a total of 4 large utes using 11 spots. The drivers are the laziest drivers on the planet.
They drive them like shit, they park like shit, and then use the size of their car as an excuse to drive like an unsupervised 12 year old who has never driven a car before.
Even worse, you never see them actually towing anything, and there is only a single dirty Dodge RAM out there (we actually did see one once, and the whole car pointed it out). You’ll never see courier drivers with them, and the people you do see with them, are always the exact people you expect
I have a Hilux which I think is big . Used for farm work and towing while the EV is my preferred vehicle these days as it is much more cost effective. The Hilux is actually tiny compared with a RAM or Silverado. I’m quite conscious that visibility in a parking lot is bad around a Ute or SUV but as you say many are totally oblivious or just don’t care about their usage.
Parking inspectors could be a big help here.
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That’s not even close to being true - a RAM 1500 is 2620kg. Still really heavy, but not close to the cut off
That GVM, vehicle plus load for a RAM 2500.
Sounds like it falls in the under 5Ton category then? Even fully loaded?
4.5tons. It fits by a few kilos.
make them require LR – Light Rigid licence. if you really “need it for work”, no worries, just do the course.
And of course, LR will require a BAC of 0.00.
That will discourage certain people from buying them if they don’t need it.
damn… that’s perfect :D
almost want to create a website to start a campaign.
Do it. I’ll sign up.
Charge rego by the kilo, or by road surface area. It’s crazy that they cost the same to put on the road as a 900kg hatch.
It should be exponential too. That’s how road wear works, so make them pay in accordance to the damage it does to the roads.
Bonus points if you make the fee scale by weight to the fourth power, to match the relative impact it has on road wear
Also torso damage when you flatten a pedestrian.
Rego in NSW does scale by weight. Other states should bring that in if they don’t already. However, that hasn’t stopped yank tanks from flooding NSW roads. They should also require an LR licence since they are literally the size of a truck.
I was going to say just put a stupid-tax on them, but I guess Trump has kinda done that with the price of diesel.
And remove the tax concessions for using them as ‘work’ vehicles.
I’ll be honest, remove it for any fucking ute that doesnt literally have a motorised compressor, pump or similar bolted to the tray.
98% of tradies can do their shit out of a van, they just want a swanky ute they can be an utter cunt on the road with. And they can go get fucked.
Yeah, no shit. They shouldn’t even be road legal here imo.
The line has to be drawn somewhere.
Regular punters need to be able to hire a light truck on a regular licence, in case they need to move something bulky. Light trucks need to be crew-cabs so that a team of four can be transported to the job site, with all their tools. And you can’t legislate on the styling of a vehicle.
If I had my way, the laws would be changed to mandate forward visibility, without reliance on ADAS. This would close the loophole, but overcab light trucks would still be legal; Mitsubishi Canters, Isuzu N-Series and Hino 300-series all provide great visibility.
I wonder if these utes are less safe for the occupants as well. They are taller and heavier than most cars making them less safe in corners and needing a bigger braking distance to stop
These vehicles are primarily personal use in Canada. And I couldn’t care less about personal vehicle choice. However…. In my observations here I often see. 1. A single driver. 2. That they far too often follow stupidly close behind me. It feels like some weird dominance/intimidation game by them. And I don’t have the time or interest to play along. This is real here, others have mentioned similar observations to me.
Same here in Australia, at least with the ford rangers, and toyota hilux’s. They became the most popular cars in Australia, even though the majority of Australians live in cities. The drivers love to tailgate. No doubt they are slowly being replaced with these even stupider, and larger utes. Chances are most of them will also be road coloured too.
Unfortunately the phenomenon is not limited to Canada. I think statesia accidentally’d your Alberta or something.
Even the trucks have gunts.
Fucking shocked fucking pikachu fucking face
No shit and waters wet…
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway be a nightmare otherwise. Its a rolling battering ram…
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway
No, they really don’t
I was being facetious, I thought that was obvious.
Are you really surprised? This is a text based medium. Poe’s law exists.
Poe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.[1][2][3]
FYI for anyone reading this who doesn’t know.
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway
News to me, I think they look like giant look at me signs that say I have a tiny pecker and/or extreme insecurity in my person. They’re a red flag, and anybody who has one i try to avoid.
