Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • Skelectrician@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve pulled empty hay wagons that have a front and rear axle it starts fishtailing if you try to go very fast. They had the orange triangles on them, haha.

    I pull something like this https://cheyennecampingcenter.com/inventory/2022-forest-river-cherokee-grey-wolf-23dbh-bunkhouse-travel-trailer-439

    With a truck like this https://www.edmunds.com/gmc/sierra-1500/2011/review/

    comfortably on flat ground at 100km/h if there isn’t a lot of crosswind.

    We don’t really worry about calculating tongue weight every time the load changes because we tend to tow with vehicles that are designed with towing in mind and have ample power. I guess that’s the difference between German and American engineering, one designs things to be as efficient and conservative as possible, the other builds something far heavier and larger than what the average person needs.

    I’ll agree that trucks could be smaller. I drive 79 series Landcruisers for offroad use in a mine and they are tough little machines. It would have no trouble towing but they’re not considered road worthy here and can only be imported as offroad vehicles. We’re not hard up for space in North America so pickup trucks aren’t really seen as a nuisance here like I suppose they are in Europe.