There is a law in the US that says trucks must meet a certain Miles per gallon fuel economy. But there is a loop hole that says trucks over a certain size are not included in that law. So as long as the trucks are ridiculously big they don't need to worry about their fuel economy.
Edit: it's the CAFE law.
This seems counterintuitive
Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.
*bribe
It's legalized bribery.
It's called lobbying if it occurs in the registered geographic region of Washington DC, everywhere else it's sparkling bribery.
Makes money without having to make effort to better their cars, seems very intuitive.
Welcome to the USA of today.
because they didn't want to piss off the blue-collar demographic, they're a huge voting block and drive trucks for work.
that's politics for you. creating nonsensical laws that aren't made to fix problems, but only to curry favor, be that with voters, lobbyists, whatever
drive trucks for work.
That’s a bold assumption.
Yes. A lot of the people who drive trucks do so because "I'm a big boy! Listen to me make lots of noise in my big lifted truck! Vroom Vroom!!"
If people are actually using it for a small business or whatever, sure, I'll live, but most of the people who buy them are just buying them because they want people to know their dicks are small.
Should be to work. I work in an office and about 25% drive trucks to work. Not one of then tow, off road or carry anything in the back, but will definitely pay 125k thanks to loans on their big boy diesel truck.
"your vehicle needs to be efficient by law, unless your vehicle is super inefficient then no worries there big guy"
holy hell. that's just idiotic. who has that much money to blow on gas?
edit: i saw a post recently saying it costs some truck owner $80 to drive to and from work. i did the math and estimated 8 mpg, so i thought they were exaggerating. but nope, my estimate was pretty damn close to reality, and that's an absurd amount of money to just throw away every day
Lol I also immediately thought of BMW when I saw OP's meme. The current M3/4's buck teeth are atrocious and I will die on that hill.
"But ma airflow!" they'll counter, seemingly oblivous to the fact that even the t-600 Kenworths have a smaller grill and work just fine.
Its also easier to see someone standing in front of that KW than in front of a 2023 Silverado.
There was a post recently where they figured out that you have better forward visibility in an Abrams tank than in several modern suvs and trucks.
Yup, I've driven kenworths since the mid 90's, never once ran over anything I didn't intend to. Visibility is pretty good in those things.
2070 seems like a stretch.
I saw a truck like this last week. The hood must've been over 5ft high. Absolutely ridiculous.
I refuse to believe that these vehicles are not already plaguing our roads.
The sad part is I did not see this a joke at first. I can walk out to the street right now and there are at least two trucks that I can stand in front of and be eye level with the hood.
I want EU laws against this shit they're slowly gaining in popularity here (mostly due to micro-egos compensating with US imports, incidentally for actual work purpose).
Needs more lights so I can blind the crap out of everyone in front of me
Before long, it'll be all grill
GM already did that with their trains a long time ago. In the picture below you are looking at the front of the train.
You can see the sky, and the sky is beautiful. Why would you care about an ugly road or NSFL gore in front of your car?
Upgrade to the premium suspension option! You already can't see the corpses, but with airsuspend+ you won't feel them either! It's like you're not even committing the murder!
/S
Lights would be higher to blind as many people as possible.
Are you truly an American if you don't own one of these for the express purposes of turning it on its side and grilling steaks on it?
Chevrolet's pickup truck in 2077
Make a law saying they need those convex front mirrors like school busses have and see how fast this trend dies.
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Who needs a radiator when you’ve got a frontiator!
It'll have a canon. I'm sure very soon they'll start mounting guns on the hood.
BMW started it
Dodge started the trend of making their pickup trucks be stupidly huge.
What's old is new again
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