There are way too many traffic deaths already, adding stupidly big US trucks on european roads is really not going to help. An “arms race” for who has the biggest vehicle on the road just makes it worse for everyone, without even mentioning the environmental impact.
This is already the case everywhere. The average car is still quite a bit heavier in the US, but the average weight of a car in the EU has also increased by several hundred kg these past years. The people want big, heavy, inefficient SUVs. https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/global-car-economy
There are way too many traffic deaths already, adding stupidly big US trucks on european roads is really not going to help. An “arms race” for who has the biggest vehicle on the road just makes it worse for everyone, without even mentioning the environmental impact.
This is already the case everywhere. The average car is still quite a bit heavier in the US, but the average weight of a car in the EU has also increased by several hundred kg these past years. The people want big, heavy, inefficient SUVs. https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/global-car-economy
“It’s safer for me.”
“I have space for my things.”
“I sit high up and can see really far.”
It’s because of the Germans and their lobbying
That’s part of it. The other part is that it’s really difficult to find more reasonably sized cars anymore.