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!

  • zephyreks@lemmy.caEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    I’m against draining the tires of cars, but in cases like this I’d consider making an exception… if it’s a commercial vehicle, buddy should get it licensed as such.

    • c0m47053@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The problem, at least in the UK is exactly that. As commercial vehicles, they can be more tax efficient than company cars. Lots of builders and mechanics have them as family cars, because this avoids the traditional emissions based personal company car tax system. I appreciate this is more of a problem with the UK commercial taxation system than anything else but still