Why????
My bike camera is mounted almost 3' off the ground. There is zero reason for a vehicle this size to exist, much less to roam neighborhood streets while kids are out walking & biking to school.
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@DrTCombs Yea totally agree. Cars here are just friggin huge. When I recently bought a new car, I deliberately bought a small car and even that was big (4 door Toyota Corolla Hybrid)
How else are you to transport 6 ft boards from a hardware store?
@DrTCombs When I was in construction 20 years ago we hated the lifted truck the boss had for one crew - it was that much higher we had to lift all of our stuff. That truck doesn't have enough paint/sheet metal damage to be a construction truck.
@DrTCombs US CAFE regulations light truck exception should only applies to trucks used as trucks. when it is used as a truck paint and sheet metal damage is normal wear and tear, and thus you cannot deduct from the trade in value for such things. Of course the result of this would be no leases (because customers would still pay less for trucks with such damage), and in turn dry up the market. Or maybe they would still exist, but on what is otherwise the same truck there are two models, one with the exception which is cheaper to buy outright, but has low trade in value, and one for cars that look like trucks which cost more as you have to pay the CAFE fines with the price.
@DrTCombs Because buying a car is not a rational decision. Based on the car ads that I see (The Netherlands) every car guarantees you will be driving all alone on a beautiful road and everybody is happy. The only ‘other’ ad I remember was for a Fiat Panda, about 40 years ago. https://youtu.be/5kgFIv__S1s?si=Pw1g2NQWJPSSLsyV
@DrTCombs at a very minimum, a vehicle that high off the ground should require a CDL to operate.
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