Nearly nobody needs them here. For what would a normal person need a Pickup truck in Europe? Except maybe for gardening businesses.
And apart from that “no need” issue, those things are way to expensive. Horrible insurance rates, high taxes, and gas guzzlers on top. With fuel prices in the 8 to 10 USD per gallon, filling up the tank of such a beast costs a fortune. There is a reason why Europeans prefer smaller, more fuel efficient cars.
And: in the US, car manufacturers have bought the law that anything below “truck” of a kind is to weak to pull any kind of trailer. Which was done to make people unecessarily buy bigger and more expensive cars.
Funny, thought, that all over Europe people use normal cars to legally and safe pull trailers that would be illegal in the US. My car can pull a 1.8t trailer. In the US, I would have to use a truck for this kind of load.
Typically I don’t want to tow anything that is heavier than my car.
Conveniently my car weighs significantly more than a 6x4 trailer and I could fit everything I own in the car and trailer, with the exception of a bed and honestly I’m never moving that.
Nearly nobody needs them here. For what would a normal person need a Pickup truck in Europe? Except maybe for gardening businesses.
And apart from that “no need” issue, those things are way to expensive. Horrible insurance rates, high taxes, and gas guzzlers on top. With fuel prices in the 8 to 10 USD per gallon, filling up the tank of such a beast costs a fortune. There is a reason why Europeans prefer smaller, more fuel efficient cars.
And: in the US, car manufacturers have bought the law that anything below “truck” of a kind is to weak to pull any kind of trailer. Which was done to make people unecessarily buy bigger and more expensive cars.
Funny, thought, that all over Europe people use normal cars to legally and safe pull trailers that would be illegal in the US. My car can pull a 1.8t trailer. In the US, I would have to use a truck for this kind of load.
No. Europe has better cars for this: Pritschenwagen (who doesn’t love German words? So creative …).
Take a look at the VW crafter: https://www.volkswagen-nutzfahrzeuge.de/de/modelle/crafter.html
The council’s gardening department has Pritschenwagen, too. The Pickup seems to be for the smaller jobs.
Typically I don’t want to tow anything that is heavier than my car.
Conveniently my car weighs significantly more than a 6x4 trailer and I could fit everything I own in the car and trailer, with the exception of a bed and honestly I’m never moving that.