I’m not sure about the reasons why, but I’ve hardly ever seen a 21st century Toyota truck in Europe. In previous decades they sold quite a few though.

I saw an F150 Raptor on the Nürburgring when I visited a few years ago. Now that broke my brain.

What is Euro truck culture like?

“One feature I would love to see on intermittent wipers is a “tap tempo” feature like many guitar delay and modulation pedals now have. It would use a momentary switch - tap it once and release, tap it again and release and the time between those two taps would be the wiper interval.”

Well, you have to take the era into account as well. This van was introduced in the mid 60s. The agricultural landscape of western Europe has changed drastically since then. Lots of farmers living in the country side with maybe a few dozen cows and a few pigs back then. Nowadays? It’s all gone, except for hobby…

Exactly! That's what this site is about. Or used to be.

What I don't understand is the contrast between this article and the reviews about generic crossovers.

I chose the word republican as the opposite of monarchist. An analogy in the political context. Yet, in this current political climate republican and monarchist are starting to mean something similar. Like the circle you mentioned.

Antifa= fascist/Marxist sounds a bit like Republican= monarchist/anarchist.

I think it’s odd that people who are not really that tall think they won’t fit in smaller cars. This might be true for some Japanese cars from the 80s and before, but especially for cars sold in Western Europe it is simply not acceptable if someone 6'3" cannot fit normally, as 6'3" is not exceptionally tall there.

6'? I’ve seen people much taller, myself included, fit nicely in a mk3 MR2.

My 2000 Peugeot has short gearing as well, and I live in Germany. On the Autobahn I never get under 4000 rpm, unless there is construction. I’ve owned the car for 8 years, mostly use if for long distance trips, it’s 20 years old, has 375k kms (233k miles) and is still super reliable and cheap to own.

Depends on the cruising speed really.

It depends. As long as you wait until COVID19 dies down, you’re respectful and don’t wear a red cap, people won’t hold that shitshow against you personally. They might laugh behind your back though.

Let’s dig into it in a little different way:

I’ve shipped from Europe to the US once. The European part is relatively easy and fun; find a car (preferably with a recent valid inspection), buy it, register it with temp plates (easy in many countries like Germany), maybe make some repairs, take a nice long roadtrip and leave it at a RoRo port.

What kind of help do you need then? Try the oppositelock forum, that sort of belongs to Jalopnik. There are a few Europeans there that might be able to help.

Still though: weight reduction > extra power.

It’s Dutch. Dutch is my native language, so I should know.

The ‘torpedo’ part has to do that it has a front that sticks out. As in, it is not like a conventional cabover truck. In the background of the picture you can see a green one.