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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!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (22 children)

You might be right about the passengers, but from a relatives point of view, only the pickup works for his line of work. I won't go into details, but it involves transporting machines from site to site and using them there. His pickup is only used for work, he has a Volvo V60 as daily driver.

I see no problem with large cars as long as there is justifications for that specific vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This seems to be in a European city though

There's a reason why the tradies here mainly use vans instead of big honking trucks like these - something small and covered is much easier and more useful on small streets and is also just much safer

Also I dunno, Australia seems to run just fine on utes

[–] jimmux 3 points 1 year ago

We did run fine on utes, but they're getting hard to find now. You can move anything with an aluminium tray and a bit of imagination.

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