01-23-2014, 07:42 PM
(01-23-2014, 10:49 AM)Bonecracker Wrote: That's funny!! My friend Hugo in Germany has told me about many near misses with his Japanese SUV, which all his friends call "The Tank". At the time, I had a Ford Expedition and he said mine dwarfed his. So I can only imagine how inconvenient a bigger SUV or pickup would be in the UK or many parts of the continent. Well, inconvenient for other drivers!They're fairly rare around my area, car shows aside. I think that Ram is the biggest I've seen "in the wild". Not really relevant but I've seen a Chevrolet Blazer (looks like a late Mk1 from my Googling) parked up in a nearby village fairly regularly.
Pickups are fairly common here as workhorse vehicles but we're talking things like Mitsubishi L200's and Toyota Hilux's which are dramatically smaller. Going back some years I did not realise quite how [i]much[/i] smaller they are until seeing some American ones.
Things like Range Rovers are fairly big over here. Though that said there's probably not much in it in width - it's more length-wise that there's a huge difference (as in 1-2m+). Ironically - height aside - things like grand tourers and executive saloons are some of the biggest cars over here, not trucks and SUVs.
Although you might think it's a pain for everyone else, over here it's a pain for the driver too. You'd have to put up with a lot to drive something that size here. Simple fact is that over here stuff just isn't made for vehicles that size.
I can't find it for the life of me but there was a news story some years ago where a footballer (I think) was given a parking ticket for parking his Aston Martin incorrectly. The car was actually parked dead center however it was so wide relative to the space that it was well over the lines on both sides and effectively took 3 spaces.
