No F-150 in France?
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica get ready to be colonized like when the brits hooked china on indian opium to buy cheap chinese tea
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@arstechnica "full-size"? That is not a particularly neutral choice of words. To us Europeans, they are ridiculously over-sized.
@tml They should just flat out ban these monster trucks.
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica they can fuck right off with their stupid junk
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=socialI can think of no bigger nightmare than trying to drive an F150 in Europe. They couldn't pay people to do that.
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica I've lived in France and I certainly would not want a huge frak'n truck. Too hard to park or manoeuvrer in small streets of villages and cites. And the Hummer's I saw were vanity cars during the Cannes Film Festival and Monaco GP. Totally impractical for daily use.
Bigger not always better.
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica The thing is, the Ford F150 never used to be a big truck. In fact, it was on the smaller end of their pickups.
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@tml They should just flat out ban these monster trucks.
@veronica @tml @arstechnica We should cap our streets to a lower width, adding a few sturdy concrete small problem compensator busters here and there.
Humans need space. Inferiority complex advertisement vehicles don’t.
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica Nothing cries out loud "I have a micropenis and a tiny ego" than driving one of those monster trucks.
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica EU citizens are not interested in US cars or trucks
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica
These vehicles are not enough for farm work, and don't quite fit in cities. They allow lorries for cargo.
Archway to Guildhall car park © Philip Halling
This arch dates from the 1890s and is Grade II listed, see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396245?section=official-list-entry
(www.geograph.org.uk)
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica the problem is that in Europe we have beautiful city centres we try to preserve from these monstruosities... except Prague.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YZXzgIhFAXk&pp=ygUVYWRhbSBzb21ldGhpbmcgcHJhZ3Vl
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@arstechnica "full-size"? That is not a particularly neutral choice of words. To us Europeans, they are ridiculously over-sized.
You can bet that Ford hasn’t noticed the price of gasoline
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica We don't want these shits -
@arstechnica
These vehicles are not enough for farm work, and don't quite fit in cities. They allow lorries for cargo.
Archway to Guildhall car park © Philip Halling
This arch dates from the 1890s and is Grade II listed, see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396245?section=official-list-entry
(www.geograph.org.uk)
Yesterday I saw a report posted by DW that covered the use of Toyota Prius by Mongolian herders in the country.
The country buys used electric vehicles in droves and they like that vehicle because it’s particularly robust, but it does leave the problem of the electronic waste
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica like...wtf?
you wanna run your wheels in country A, you submit to country A's rules and regs about wheels on their roads.
Same for taxes.
And you know...general Law Things.That's how it friggin works ffs
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica@mastodon.social
Having driven in Europe (several times during my "traveling IT consultant" years):
1. Not all the roads were safe to use them on (at least not in the parts of Germany, Belgium, UK and the Netherlands I was in)…
2. You'd be hard-pressed to find a place to park a truck like even the smallest versions of the F-150 (especially not in many parking-garages that weren't built to accommodate monstrously-sized vehicles)
I still remember when I was visiting someone I knew from online in their "town" (a village, really). The roads were NARROW. I mean, they were basically two-ish lanes wide. Driving was done in the middle of the road and, to either side, there was a half lane's worth of room for parking (in Germany, the sidewalks were wide and you genarally parked with one side's wheels up on the walkway). Turns were often blind and, if another car had the right of way, you'd need to either try to pull off to the side or back up until you could find such a spot to give way. I can't imagine backing something like an F150 up to get to a give-way spot and backing into such a spot would also be a real trick (monstrously-sized cars for the North American market aren't exactly known for being able to see out or, especially, feel the footprint of the vehicle). -
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica Anyone who thinks the EU wants giant trucks doesn't understand the size of most european roads...
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Yesterday I saw a report posted by DW that covered the use of Toyota Prius by Mongolian herders in the country.
The country buys used electric vehicles in droves and they like that vehicle because it’s particularly robust, but it does leave the problem of the electronic waste
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @arstechnica
I can see that. On most European farms, a truck would be used to carry feed and bedding for animals, or a mush more powerful vehicle used to handle crops.
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No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social@arstechnica
If one does the math, we europeans pay over twice as much per unit of gas.Even if you don't care how many pedestrians you kill why would anyone want a guzzler like that???
F#$* off USA, go home and shove your SUV's and pickups up your tailpipes!
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @arstechnica
I can see that. On most European farms, a truck would be used to carry feed and bedding for animals, or a mush more powerful vehicle used to handle crops.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @arstechnica
The problem in cities is size. More and more cities encourage public transportation or bicycles.
