The Japanese and Korean vehicles for the American market aren't any better to be fair.

Only some places in Europe have roads too small to accomodate them, but regardless, these vehicles are stupid everywhere

It'd be nice to actually have truly small trucks like the S10/S15 from '04 and earlier come back into vogue, let alone more normal cars like hatchbacks and sedans and such, and hell, more vans for light commercial work if desired too.

Even minivans can legitimately work pretty well for moving a lot of stuff around if you either remove the seats or fold them into the floor depending on how that's set up, really, say what you will about minivans, but they can hold a lot of stuff with the seats removed/folded into the floor, if you own a minivan and, say, you're renovating your home or whatever, for example, you could fit all the materials for that with the second and third-row seats removed/folded into the floor into maybe a couple trips to your preferred hardware store and be good to go with how much stuff that class of vehicle can carry, and hold it in a way that's easily accessed by a low load floor and sliding doors on one or both sides of the van, just like their full-sized counterparts only smaller and with better fuel economy.

And Canada. They're everywhere here. Idiots only using them to commute to work every day.

"But I need it" Fuck off.

Yes, please.

I'm a big bearded white guy and look like I should drive a stupid truck, or at least I would look that way with some shades and a baseball cap. Where I live is pretty white, surrounded by rural areas, so the trucks are everyyywhere. I doubt I need to convince anybody on here that these vehicles are bad, but I have a couple of observations from my perspective here in real america(/s).

I have a couple of friends who are those rare truck owners due to legitimate need because they are literal farmers, in addition to their day jobs (this is the USA, after all). Not only are their pastures on steep hillsides, but they only have huge animals like horses and cattle so that comes with pulling trailers and hauling bales of hay, etc. The trucks LOOK like they are farm trucks, their back seat areas in the cabs are dedicated to dogs, and the drivers are... petite women. 🤣 They are super nice and generous too, so I get to do the "have a friend with a truck" thing.

But, since I live close to a Home Depot, I don't borrow one of the trucks unless I am buying 12+ foot (3.66+ meter) lumber or an appliance.

Every time I'm at Home Depot in old clothes with cuts on my arms and legs, loading standard 8' (2.44m) lumber into my decade-old economy sedan, I'm surrounded by people who look like me demographically but are dressed much more cleanly and getting into shiny clean late model luxury SUVs or the hulking pickup trucks that cost even more.

The more insane part is that Bezos and that mfer working McDonald's gets the same fine. It might as well be jail time for one, and a verbal warning for the other.

Thought I did, sorry. Fixed it now.

I drove a few hundred kilometers on the highway the other day after a bit of snow fall, of course the four cars that I saw in the ditch were pickups

Below the video you`ll find links to organisation competing this legislation. You can join those and support them.

If EU citizen, you can write to your member of the EU-parliament. Theres a pre-fabricated letter you can send in. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/advanced

He explains it in the conclusion of the video.

Make it really inconvenient to own one. Require a CDL and subject them to the same restrictions as commercial vehicles.

You want one? Ok, but it's going to be a pain in the ass.

Nah, commercial vehicles shouldn't be given greater freedom to kill bystanders. Limit 'em to 45kph and have to display a yellow flashing knob beacon.

He has another video about stupid American trucks, but it's about how stupid they are in America, not that politicians are trying to get them into Europe.