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Originally Posted by Daekar
I have literally never seen a European post about their work vehicles.
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That's normal. They're for work ...
And mostly owned by the company one works for.
Even self-employed people will seldom drive their work vehicles for fun.
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Surely a few of them here or there have trucks
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Not what you'd call a truck, i.e. pick up truck.
Pick up trucks are rare here, and usually NOT used for work - just used by people caught with the American virus ... or for tax-evasion.
A US style pimped out pick-up is often the cheapest way to have a V8 - the tax folks have already cut down on the fake "van" conversions of estates, SUVs, Cayennes and the like ...
OTOH, seemingly half of Denmark is driving around in ageing van conversions of regular cars, because the regular cars are taxed so horribly .
We mostly drive vans for work.
Like the
Fiat Fiorino,
Ford Transit or
VW transporter.
You can get most of them with a cargo bed, but those versions are relatively rare. And definitely not something you'd drive around in your leasure time.
Well, maybe the old
VW T1 Pritsche qualifies for that
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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?
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What necessity
Even in that line of work, pick ups are relatively rare.
You might be surprised by the
tiny size of them, too.
Like this
Dacia Logan or maybe a
Toyota HiLux or even a
Nissan Navara.
They often drive "jeeps" , i.e. 4x4s , with a trailer if need be.
Or a panel van / cargo bed van.
With 4x4 if needed.
As much as the Yanks like their pick-ups, they're largely impractical and not all that good as utility vehicles.
That Dacia Logan might do as a light runabout utility truck.
They jumped in the gap VW left with their Polo or Golf mini pick up.
For the heavier stuff, we resort to proper - but small - cab-over-engine trucks.
Lorries as the English would call them.
And once more, those'd be strictly for work.
Folks working in agriculture would use the tractors + trailer that they have anyway, for the bigger jobs.
They'd not get a bigger pick-up ...
