These things aren’t self propelled. They have enough power to provide pedal assist so you can get up big steep hills while carrying 70+ pounds of gear/human cargo without sweating, but they aren’t motorcycles-lite. Very popular in urban areas.

The extended warranty on my Golf R will be expiring right about then. Assuming no $20k dealer markup, this is my next car for sure!

I get no sense of size from your photos.

so, how long since you lost your sight?

You know he’s only 61 years old, right? Although I would have sworn he was 75, like, two decades ago.

Did you catch the fact that the Grand Wagoneer weighs in at just under 3 FREAKING TONS ?? 90 kg lighter than a Hummer H2 !!

Grand Wagoneer can miss me - but THIS i am in on. Affordable people and thing hauler that get better than 20 MPG. I love hatches vans and small cars - the world needs more smart thinking instead of just bigger is better thinking. 

People want cheap produce. This is the cost.

What the fuck?

Other people have already decided you can’t drive a vehicle with leaded fuel, or the wrong way down a street, or on racing slicks, or without headlights on when you’re in a construction zone, and on and on.

Unless you’re an anarchist, I assume you just mean you don’t want any laws you disagree with. This isn’t about…

I think the part of the article that doesn’t see enough thought in the comments section is that if trucks were held to the standards of cars it would be MORE of your money to buy whatever damn truck meets your real or perceived needs, which would, statistically speaking, shift a lot of consumers to vehicles adjusted…

I don’t think it goes down the road of ‘your lifestyle and needs dictate that you shall only drive a fully electric vehicle that fits 2 passengers, 1 cat and a medium sized set of luggage’. But for things like light trucks, they were exempted from the CAFE standards (and a few others) because when those were all put…

Actually the majority of the article is expanding on that assumed subtext and pointing out that it’s a much more complicated situation than just “only certain people should be allowed to own trucks”. Buy whatever you want, but read the whole thing.

So much this. We have incentivized harmful things for far too long. Beef in McDonald’s burgers should cost a lot more, and the subsides that drive its prices down (corn subsidies, benefits paid out to underpaid, underemployed workers, etc) should be eliminated or shifted towards healthier foods. No need to even a…

Noticing that you have an oversized negative impact on the world doesn’t make someone a busybody, it just makes them observant. If your brain is too smooth to understand ripple effects more than one layer deep that’s not their fault.

“McDonalds is bad for society, should we ban them?”

Trucks are great at specific things, namely towing and hauling. The primary trade-off for these capabilities is increased air pollution and CO2. When a truck is barely used for any of the things it’s great at, it’s polluting for no reason.

This is exactly how it currently works though. You can’t have vehicles wider than a certain width or taller than a certain height along with many other restrictions to be used on public roads. You can drive on private roads with almost whatever you want but you have to comply with safety and regulatory standards so…

Where did anyone say anything about banning them? That’s a pretty knee-jerk reaction.

If a truck buyer honestly defends their purchase, I think most of us would move on with life. The problem is the truck buyers who are defending their God-given right to do whatever they want with no regard for the society they exist within and impact. This is not about trucks; it is about selfishness.