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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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[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only one of them fits a man with a small dick

[–] Guilvareux@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Might just be my experience but in the UK at least, it’s almost exclusively women who drive cars like this. Men more commonly drive vans and super large vehicles to be fair, but specifically larger than necessary, non-tradesman style cars (Land Rovers, very clean, empty pick-ups etc.)

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeh because they want to feel safe. All it is. And it's not safer at all.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's safer for them, but not for the kid they'll accidentally run over because they simply couldn't see it.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's not safer at all. They handle like shit.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

By safe I meant they won't be the ones killed in an accident. They won't feel the impact cuz their car just keeps going.

[–] Skelectrician@lemmynsfw.com -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God forbid somebody drives a pickup truck. There's never ever a necessity to haul anything weighing over 500kg or to ever pull a large trailer. It's safe to assume anybody driving one of these big scary machines is a sadist with a micropenis and a threat to society.

Do you realize that whoever grew the food you ate today likely owns and utilizes a pickup truck? Do you realize that your convenient city life would be impossible without rural people transporting goods to your little concrete paradise?

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's funny. This might shock you but I don't actually live in a concrete paradise. I live in a rural area in Europe in a small village with a lot of farms. Take a guess how many pickup trucks there are here? Close to none. That's because nobody actually needs a pick-up truck.