I like wagons more than soccer-mom vans
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Originally Posted by Daekar
I guess it is a good sign that I didn't get his joke, although sad that if he had substituted a luxury SUV that will never see dirt I would have been on board with the humor. It is odd, now that I think of it... I have literally never seen a European post about their work vehicles. Surely a few of them here or there have trucks, but I have seen absolutely zero evidence of this in my limited experience. Educate a man whose travels are limited to this side of the Atlantic: are work vehicles generally owned by companies? Is there no remaining tradition of small-scale agriculture or rural land ownership that would necessitate the private possession of true utility vehicles similar in function to our pickups in this country? Admittedly, the proportion of rural to urban population must be even greater in Europe than the US, but still.
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Europeans were already used to smaller vehicles for a long time. Compact pickups are more usual among farmers, and almost every Euro-spec pickup is fitted with a 4-pot turbodiesel under 3-litre (few have a gasser, usually converted to LPG or CNG). It's hard to find a commercial vehicle with anything but a 4-cylinder turbodiesel in the European market, and it's usually either a medium-duty or a heavy-duty truck, altough even medium-duty trucks can be found with a 4-cylinder turbodiesel...