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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution
(www.theguardian.com)
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I have to drive a freaking pick up truck for professional reasons and even I loathe the freaking thing.
Too long, too wide, too tall, too everything and anything for any road and I drive in country roads.
The craze for ever growing vehicles is going to extremes.
Tax and penalize these cars until it hurts.
Most of my friends that are in the trades prefer small vans over pickup trucks. They can fit more tools, better organized, and easier to secure. Pickup trucks are very niche vehicles.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there are no ~~risen~~ raised vans or with 4x4 traction, which I often require to reach some remote locations, especially with rainy weather.
But I would gladly trade it in for a small van.
Either that or a 1990's 4x4 FIAT Panda, with a roof rack.
Pretty sure mercedes has some vans like that. I know of a company that build them into off road & off grid camping vans and they do rock climbing, or whetever one would call it, in them. They are still quite long and big but not like the sheer stupid toys that a modern pickup is.