AMERICAN REACTS TO WHY EUROPEANS DON'T LIKE PICKUP TRUCKS! 😳 (SO MANY TAXES?!)
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I would prefer Multifunction-Van, for example with Caravaning-Option (Bed and cooking station inside) or as a Transporter or with lot removable seats for picking up friends to travel...
You got more parking space.
If I could I would get an Australian Ute (small pick-up) to use in Europe
The tax is included in the price.
Also a European gallon is bigger than an American.
Why should I even think about a pick-up, when it comes at the same price as this sexy van? ... czcams.com/video/aE0Wll8sBss/video.html
12:26 majority of european countries dont have jay walking laws because its the drivers responsibility to not hit pedestrians. Plus european cities are made for people not cars.
When you think about gas tax, bear in mind that in Europe, displayed retail prices must include all taxes, they can't be added on when you pay.
The only people I know that drive pickups, are farmers, and they usually have a cover over the back.
Dude i never farmed anything in my life, and i had a BT50 Intrepid, and i frikking loved it, except when i had to park it, do an oil change ( that things takes 8l of oil ), when i had to take it to the petrol station ( 25l every 100km ), oh and tires, a pair of Brigestsone R720 for my Punto Sport would cost me 120 Euros +/-, the truck ones costed 240 euros EACH, and you cant change just 2 since its a 4x4 you always need all 4 tires.
@@TheAquarius1978 25 LITERS???? WTF!
@@Skyl3t0n lolol, oh yes 25l dude i LITERALLY saw the fuel gage going down, im not jocking, there was a road i use to like taking it, its an up hill freeway, and once you started " red lining " it you could literally see the fuel gage moving down.
Gas taxes are included in the displayed retail price in the UC and Canada.
I guess the idea of ‘presenting’ yourself by the car you drive doesn’t come up in Europe as much. Having a nice car is still a good thing but mostly we want them to be practical you know? People generally won’t think you’re a certain type of person by looking at the car you drive. So if a smaller car will get you where you need to go, has enough space to fit you and whoever else uses it and consumes less fuel and even fits easier into the parking spots… we usually don’t look much further than that. No need for full out sports cars and such unless you’re a car enthusiast.
Tho it also depends on which european country you are in. For example some people in sweden will debatte which car is better BMW or volvo. Car culture is quite big in Sweden especially in small towns or more rural parts.
or you'll have to compensate something lacking
Smaller car means you live / work near a bigger city.
The more luxurious station cars will be looked at as more boss style vehicles, especially Mercedes Benz, while a BMW is for man childs.
But thats still very broad. No one really cares about anything else, especially the mid range cars.
Trust me, drive in a big german car, i.e Audi and BMW, and you're pre judged and most of the time the judgement is justified.
@@Masterfighterx Bmw drivers in the UK have a terrible reputation for being super aggressive arseholes.
the gas tax is included in the price, like all the taxes in Europe
Sweden is definitively hatchback country. Far more practical than a pickup where the cargo is unprotected!
Doesn't matter if the cargo is groceries or delicate furniture, you still don't want it exposed to the rain, snow, cold dirt or other nasties outside.
Nah Sweden is more of a station wagon contry.
Exactly.
You also forgot just simply being stolen, when you are away.
American cars/trucks are larger too big for European cities / roads and also less economical
Europe has decent public transport
A euro car does 45 miles per gallon, so $6 per gallon for fuel is not too bad. Plus we do not have that strong separation of housing- and commercial zoning, so the supermarket typically is under a mile away and you do your shopping by bike, on foot, or for hardly andy fuel spent. We are much less dependent on cars over here, which is great.
In the UK the pedestrians and cyclists generally have higher priority on the roads. The roads aren't as car-centric here as the US. There's no j-walking laws here, you can legally cross wherever you want (within reason), meaning if a car hits someone whilst they're crossing, it's always the drivers fault.
It's not always the drivers fault at all, there are plenty of instances where idiots run across the road without looking and get hit,that doesn't make it the drivers fault just cause they're no J walking laws
@@davidmellish3295 If I, say, flattened a guy running across the street in my Citreon. Even if the guy was wasted, it would still be my fault.
The legal argument is that i'm the trained, (sober) and licensed person in the fast moving 1 tonne vehicle. Its my duty of care to be cautious on the road when pedestrians are around, not the pedestrian.
@@mrcirclestrafe-7696 sorry but I don't believe in practical terms ( no matter how the law may be worded) that you'd be held accountable if you were driving sensibly within the speed limit etc and a drunk ran out in front of you giving you no time to avoid them and was knocked down. That would be their fault and you would not be charged by the police
@@davidmellish3295 yeah you would be charged. not necessarily convicted if there were witnesses or a dashcam clearly showing your due care, but most definitely charged.
@@Apokalypse456 you would not be charged if there was witnesses and cameras showing that you were driving correctly and some drunken idiot ran in front of you,giving you no chance to avoid them. I don't know why you seem to think this,they don't hold drivers responsible for pedestrian's idiotic behaviour
A station wagon has all the loading capacity a normal person will ever need. Best car
99% of the people never load anything more than some grocery bags in the station wagon.
Apparently not. I know a lot of people that have smaller SUVs and guess who they call when they need to move something a little bigger.
@@rich7447 someone with a Station Wagon?
@@Avvisoful Mid-size SUVs carry more than all but the largest station wagons (1960-70s wagons).
High gas prices in Europe are mostly due to taxes. After all, we do have great, well-constructed and -maintained roads... someone has to finance that.
But then... most European cars aren't these large gas-guzzling pick-up trucks. ;)
As for hauling... yes, we can do all that. Most cars don't have trailer connections as a base, but if you want, you can have them, and you can haul quite a load. And the "transporter" type vans do not have less internal capacity than a pick-up truck... and it is INTERNAL. Meaning: kept safe from the weather as well as ill-minded people.
The argument about the additional costs due to customs and import taxes is... well... not wrong... but rather irrelevant. Look at the European car industry: if we _wanted_ pick-up trucks... we wouldn't need to import them from the USA... we would build our own.
The point about "freedom, fun, getting out in the wild"... there is something you need to understand, and that is the enormous difference in scale between the USA and Europe.
Texas is almost twice the size as Germany... but doesn't even have half the population, and a lot of it is concentrated in just a handful of major cities.
There is still a lot of green space in Europe... but none of it is "wild". European land has been cultivated for millennia.
And you have to consider that not all - perhaps not even most - of the U.S. "pick-up truck" culture is about "freedom"... it is about the "image of freedom".
If you live in Austin or Dallas, you will have much less need of a huge pick-up truck... but people still get one, because of the image.
The corresponding trend in Europe is the SUV. These have this "sports, action, freedom" image... but for a large part, they are just larger, more expensive and more gas-using city cars.
I'd like to add the fact that there is no real 'outdoors' in countries like the Netherlands, or densely populated regions like Flanders etc. Also the outdoors are protected and you won't be allowed to enter the area by car. In Western Europe you'll mostly find a car park at the 'entrance' of the outdoors area where you leave your car and you can hike, bike or swim to discover the area. Imo this is a better way to preserve nature and to avoid disturbing animals, insects etc.
Carpenters, plumbers, electricians, plasterers and painters are the most common professions or small companies and over here (the Netherlands) own one van per two or three employees. Common brands for vans are Mercedes (vito model), Opel, Renault, Volkswagen, Ford (transit model) and some Japanese brands. You may think of them as midget cars, but for us they are quite large.
The last couple of years I noticed more imported pickup trucks from the USA, but they are quite exceptional. Another problem is that these vehicles usually don't fit in the garages and parking areas, or they occupy more than one place, neighbors will consider the owner an antisocial person. Be aware that in the Netherlands and in many other countries people live in terraced houses or apartments, we park our car at the side of the streets or a car park, and the road network can have historic widths but most are very well maintained.
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I call big American cars Yank Tanks. There has been a long push in Europe for fuel efficency. American made engines have been falling behind on this front, because your fuel priced and standards dont incentavize it. As a result big US engines often have suprisingly little power in comparison.
Right and they also tend tohave strong engines which results in higher taxes(at least in Germany where the tax for your car depends on the engine lower) and makes the effect of their inefficiency even worse in terms of fuel consumption
@@haemmertime Also see topgear clip about the American automobile and their deffinition of "luxury".
The things is gas and cars are generally less important in most of Europe than in US(they gain on important if you have a big family or live in a countryside tho). I personally lived in 2 European countries so far and as long as you live in a city, you don t really need a car, its more a lifestyle prefrence than an actual requirement. I - 29 yo female do not even have a dirving license as sb who lived and plans to always lives in big cities its just generally more comfy to take a bus or a tram or a metro - more comfy as I avoid traffic jams, less pricey too. If i do occasionally need a car i just call a taxi. If I need to travel long distance - our trains got you covered.
Even if you live in a rural area, the distances you have to drive to get anywhere is much shorter than in the US, so you don't spend that much on gas even if it is more expensive. Also most times you can use public transportation
The tax is always included in the quoted proces throughout Europe. 95% of new cars in Norway are fully electric & they are oil producers!
At the moment gas is at 6,85$/gal .. and Trailers on Vans and Pickups are mostly limited 7716 pounds .. and smal cars can pull more than in the us. e.g. a golf can pull to 4000 pounds. So you need not large pickup to pull larger trailers. I pull my 5500 pound horse trailer with my volkswagen tiguan.
Just converted current German gas prices (€1.79/l) into U.S. currency: $7.34/gal
There is a chart were Americans say only pick up trucks or bigger can pull trailers.
The difference in European and US towing specs are the reason that cars are not used for towing. The ball/tongue weigh specification used in Europe means that the trailer is unstable at higher speeds. This is why vehicles with trailers are limited to lower speeds in Europe than in the US. We also have specific acceleration, braking and engine cooling requirements for a particular tow rating. Your VW Tiguan has a tow rating of 1,500 lbs in the US.
The average pay for a registered nurse, in Denmark, is 85K$ a year, combined with VERY good public transport infrastructure, and very bikeable, to the point of never needing a car... u are very welcome here! ♥ from Denmark
For us, these are working machines like tractors...
but we in Europe really like station wagons and hatchbacks
Yes, gas is more expensive. But you don't need a car for everyday life. Distances are shorter.
Living in the capital of Finland, Helsinki, we have a Golf which mostly sits in our garage, because we use public transport for daily commute. If I need to move something a bit bigger, i borrow my dad's "big" Volvo, which also tows a small trailer. If something bigger has to be moved, we lend a van which costs like 40€ for a few hours.
Regarding gas prices: Here in germany the biggest part of gas prices is taxes (which fund our quite OK streets). Keep in mind that here travel distances are shorter and we drive smaller and more economic cars. Besides that, we have a good public transportation so we don't use the car to get everywhere (and we still have legs so we walk or bike distances a US citizen would refuse to do). ;)
The gas tax is not on top of the price it is included (not including tax in the price and just add it after is illegal in Europe), and the reason why the price is so high.
The first car was made by Karl Benz and I highly recommend you to check out how his car became known. It was his wife Bertha Benz , who became the first car driver in the world when she took her husbands vehicle and travelled about 66 miles to show her parents what Karl had made. During the trip she fixed some issues with the car, redesigned the brakes and recommended that Karl should add gears to the car. A fantastic journey that you can drive today as "Bertha Benz Memorial Route".
The thing with salary (nurses should have an increase I agree but) is that our cost of living is lower. Food is often 1/2 the price or less, we use a lot of cheap public transport, health insurance is covered by taxes. So while the exact conversion of wages will seem low compared to USD wages, you might be able to live better off the lower wages. For example, me and my partner make approx. £50,000 per year and we own a house and a car and live very comfortably.
I've been living in Poland for almost 30 years and I hadn't seen a single pickup truck.
I am Dutch and now 75 years old. Until my 35 years I owned no car but sometimes I rented a car: for vacation, or a small moving truck for moving furniture and sometimes my employer lent me a small truck for heavy stuff like street tiles or moving a lawn mower and some timber. I used a bike for short distances and a bus or train for longer stretches. I did not lived in a big city, but in ter Apel, Groningen, a small village. My cars were small and middle type hatch back, convenient and with plenty room inside. Now I have no car, but a scoot mobile.
If you want to move to Europe don’t only compare the salary but also costs of living, „benefits“, opportunities…
We have vans and Pritschenwagen. That’s what the construction workers use. The employer has them. Everything I have to move fits in the trunk of the station wagon. Or the roof luggage rack. Or the bike rack. Once in a few years I might borrow my neighbors‘ hanger.
Like people said, we do not really need those, having a car is a priviledge, not a neccesity here and if you need to carry heavy weights you can just rent a van for a few days. People that work on the countryside are the only potential clients. We care more about being environmentaly friendly as well.
I feel like in Europe (especially the UK) most people that work in the countryside would prefer a van anyway, because of the weather. If you need to haul stuff, who would you want to haul it in a compartment open to the elements
"having a car is a priviledge, not a neccesity here"
eh, in cities I think I'd agree....out here in the more rural areas, lol no....without a car you are screwed. No gorceries, no nothing. Yes there is public transport but it is worthless....for example, I have 13km from my home to my office...that's about a 15 minute drive. With public transport, close to 4 hours.....yeah no, that ain't it...
@@reverend3578 Well yes but most people live and work in cities
One key thing to remember is that most Europeans are okay with taxes and see them as a good thing as we get a lot in return! We also have extensive public transit systems so extorsion and thievery through taxes are definitely not something here! (In general obviously.)
There's more about that actually, for example a lot of European countries have something like environmental tax and you need to pay more for bigger engines.
Beside that if you live in Europe the last thing you want to to is finding a parking space with that big track 😐, a lot of the times that would be impossible in cities.
lol that's classic. Where I live, parking lot has like 20 spaces, while people own like 30 cars and it's always a war of parking spaces.
Volkswagen, the biggest car manufacturer in the world,of course is german.you probably meant Volvo, which is swedish.
2nd biggest. Toyota is the biggest.
VOLVO belongs to the Chinese.
@@grzegorzkaczor121 wow! Didn't know they bought it.
We also consider that if you're driving a giant truck for no reason it's because you're trying to compensate for something very small
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Same tired lines to try to explain why someone would want something someone else doesn't understand.
Another point is that many pickup trucks are rated as trucks by the UK and EU (I know, odd, right?) So the safety standards for them are different to cars, ie a lot LESS in many cases. That and if you have a two seat pickup they're inherently less usable than a 5 seat sedan or 7 seat SUV for anyone with more than one person in the car with them (yes, more than one person in a vehicle... it really is possible)
One more thing, in Europe if you need to transport big staff you buy small truck, 7.5 tone or 12t, but not truck like pick up, i think you need to react to Europe trucks (not pick up) to understand what we use to transport big stuff
Another aspect might be that in Europe, regular cars are allowed to tow hangers, no matter whether it's a hanger for stuff or a trailer. You do not need a pickup truck to tow your trailer, you can do it with a regular hatchback or stationwagon.
EDIT: If you want to see what is used as a 'work car' when you need to go offroad a lot, inside and outside the military, look up the Unimog.
2 reasons it rains a lot so we like roofs and we prefer low pollution
15:30 Is there a customs tax on european car brands in the US? Depends actually - as far as i know BMW has a production facility in South Carolina, Mercedes is producing in Alabama and VW has a facility in Tennessee, therefore these cars do not fall under customs tax, since they were build in America. Import duties are usually imposed to protect domestic production from cheap imports. As long as there are no trade agreements between the countries involved, taxes will usually be imposed - this is not really something new. Its a different thing, if a foreign manufacturer opens a factory in your country - the local economy then mostly benefits from the need for labor and the taxes that these companies pay locally
The tax on importing European cars into the USA is under 3%, but the tax on importing trucks is 20%
About having a boat or something like that on a trailer. Works perfect with most bormal cars. In fact, many people here that have horses use a ordinary car like a volvo. What you have to think about is that there is a total weight limit (car plus trailer plus load). A friend bought a big truck to use for their horses.. but he didn’t think about the total weight so the car was so heavy that he couldn’t have a trailer without going over the limit.. so he did sell it and bought a standard volvo station wagon and there was no problem
Germany has a high demand on nurses and we will change laws this year to make it more easy for foreigners to access our labour market.
In Sweden it's currently about $7.26 per us gallon for gasoline and $8.51 for diesel. This is including all taxes
I live in a small town in Germany. A few years ago I remember several people in my vicinity buying Pickup Trucks mainly because there were some really cheap models sold at that time. Only 3 years later none of them is around anymore. There just not practical for the average german...I mean how often do you need to "haul loads" anyway. The drawbacks are usually just too many.
As a English immigrant to Canada I never saw the point in pickups for 90% of the people who own them. So much of the volume rarely gets used and most people can just pay for delivery for the few occasions they might be useful. Of course in Canada there are far more unpaved roads than in Europe too. For some people they do make sense but for most it seems more of a macho statement than for any practical purpose. They use them for hauling stuff occasionally of course because they have them but they don't need them.
A friend of mine goes on holiday with a 30ft boat pulled by a 300hp VW Touareg. Station wagons are basically the europeans SUV and they can be real beasts
What I see a lot with construction or landscaping companies in Europe that want an open bed is pick-up versions of vans like the Mercedes Sprinter, Ford Transit, or even smaller ones.
American cars and pickup trucks have a small following. There are clubs for them. I used to own one. It was really hard to drive safely on our small roads. We pay around 9 dollars for a gallon here in the UK. That said, an imperial gallon is larger than a U.S gallon. A U.S gallon is only 3.8 litres whereas an Imperial gallon is 4.5 litres. My small engined car (1.6 litre with a turbo) gets anything between 35 to 45 miles per gallon (depending on how I drive) and produces over 200 horsepower and will get me to 60mph in under 7 seconds. Quicker than a lot of American cars which have much bigger engines and are also a lot heavier. It costs me £120 (approximately 150 US dollars) to fill the tank from empty. This is more than a days pay for me. We just don't think about the high cost. It's normal to us. We are certainly not all rich people. We use the car when we need to use it, but not all of the time as Americans do. We will routinely walk to get groceries and walk home. It's no big deal. We've always done it and it is normal to us. I walk to work every day, 6 days a week. It's a very different way of life and one which is not centred around the car. Also, families with children need enough seats. Not enough cabin space inside a pickup truck.
The full size sprinter van 5.5ton has a internal load length of 14ft, and can carry up to 6200lbs inside. Towing capacity is up to 7716lbs. So that's the pick up truck of Europe I guess. and it does up to 15 US MPG.
I would get 20 mpg highway out of my Ram 2500 diesel (6.7L Cummins). It was fine for my smaller trailer (30' enclosed car hauler @14,000 lbs max), but didn't have the capacity for my gooseneck flatbed (also 30' with a 26,000 lb GVWR). The F450 (also 6.7L diesel) that I have ordered right now has a towing capacity of 32,000 lbs on a bed mounted hitch.
honestly, we dont this "hauling" as private person. And if you do it as company (towing 14,5 metric ton) you will just buy lorry - something like Volvo, MAN or Scania. If you need bed, we have trucks with bed and arm, check Tatra Phoenix for example....
The thing with European trucks is that they are also built different. Many of them have turbo-diesel engines wich are a lot smaller then an engine out of a chevy silverado. A 3.0Liter v6 turbo-diesel is a pretty decent engine for European trucks, compared to things like a 6.0Liter v8 engine in America which are much bigger and much more expensive in fuel.
In fact Japan hates USA pick up trucks,as well. They can't sell them
6:25 haha Uber isn't nearly big in Europe as in the US. We have instead a very well build public transportation.
I lived in London for a coupe of years before moving home t Bradford. My first day home i crossed the road and was shocked when a car more than ten car lengths away honked its horn at me. Living in London had conditioned me to take whatever gap i cold no matter how small. The cars are going to slow to really mess you up anyway and if you decide to wait fr a sensible gap youll be stood there all day waiting. Drivers are used to pedestrians doing it too so are more alert for it. Oh... and... Im a Brit, ive Never learned to drive. Never needed to. Everything is walking distance and the things that arnt are a bus or train away (shrug). If need something big moving then there are plenty of white van men around thatll do it for a tenner and a pint.
I love the way some pickups look but they don't seem practical. Even if we had wide roads and cheap gas...
My bags, groceries (even bicycles) fit in a regular car and it's always secure and safeguarded from weather conditions (and theft). And if I did buy some new furniture or decided to move renting a van or having stuff delivered is just more cost effective (small economic run of the mill cars are so much cheaper so you save a ton on your initial purchase as well as on insurance and gas).
Maybe check out some Unimogs or Pinzgauer Videos... we do have the work Cars but they are made for efficienty and not "Bigger is better"
Unimog is made by Mercedes-Benz and Pinzgauer was made by Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer. Both are specifically made with military and Workload in Mind and have specific variants for different hauls and jobs.
Maybe to add... a video from "Nicole Johnson's Detour" with "AARON S. HAGAR" and his 1972 Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer 710K. The first 6minutes 30seconds are just chatter but maybe you like the Car shown and find it interessting what "We europeans" consider a 'workcar'
Video: czcams.com/video/6noAKsQ0f9w/video.html (set to 6:30)
In Europe as well, taxes are included in all price tags, wich means the 6$ a gallon is with tax included.
6:30 if you really mean that, Spain has a high demand of nurses
Germany, too!
UK too.
And in all that countries she will earn 30-50% of what she can earn in US. For medical workers US is a place to live, especially for PhDs, some surgeons can earn 4-6 times what they would earn in UK or Germany
@@MrGrucha
depends. if you work as external doctor in germany you can earn almost the same as in the usa. most doctors i know get paid about 200€ and hour. sure you do not have the job secuerity. but there is so much need for doctors, that it kind of does not matter ....
There is a saying in germany. Big cars are only to compensate small..... ;) for WHAT do you need such big cars ? In the rare cases you have to transport something,you rent a van for some euros
Did you say "swedish Volkswagen"? Volkswagen is a german brand as you learned. "Volk" means "people" and "Wagen" means "car". The first Volkswagen, the beetle, arose from an order from Adolf H!tler to Ferdinand Porsche to build a car for the people.
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In Europe, it is completely normal for an ordinary family car or even a small car to tow a trailer. If you need a work vehicle, then the choice is a van with a completely closed cargo space, and above that there are trucks, which are cargo vehicles specially designed for a specific type of work and cargo.
The current gas prices here in the Netherlands is around 1.83 euro a litter that is around 6.97 euro a gallon our 7.57 us dollars including taxes
Who are you buy your oil from? Until recently from Russia but with this country we currently have small disagreements. You could almost say it's a real quarrel or Zoff.
On the other hand, European cars only has a third of the fuel consumption of a US truck with a 6 liters or 366 cubicinch motor.
It doesn't matter if you have a van or a pickup, with a normal driver's license you can't exceed 3.5 tons on car + trailer. if you want to pull heavier, additional training is required for a higher qualification, 4.2 tonnes. and above that there will be other requirements such as a truck license. and then it will be a new driver's license. are largely the same requirements in Europe. This was a simplified explanation. so vans are popular, what you load is protected against the elements and on the weekend you throw in a few tent beds, a cooler, bikes and go camping. 😊
To answer your question: people in Europe simply dont drive as much. In Berlin most people I know use their bike to go to work or school. Cars are only used for vacations or such.
Volkswagen Amarok was not mentioned in the video.
Looking at used cars market in Norway I see a lot of Isuzu D-max and Mitsubishi L200.
The largest used items online site Finn has less than 1600 pickup trucks for sale, but almost 5000 vans :)
Don't forget the ultimate terrorist vehicle Toyota Hilux
Just like my feet, my bicycle and public transportation, for me a car is a tool to get from A to B. Similar to a hammer: I select the tool that fits the job at hand. I don't identify myself with the hammers that I own. If I need to haul material, I just rent the cheapest vehicle that can do the job. Most of the times, I can walk or bike to where I need to be (Hurray for Dutch city design). So I got rid of my car and I just rent one if needed.
we pay 6$ a gallon but we dont pay 700$ per month for health insurrance :) u need to choose ur battle , if u want to take a roadtrip in Europe the best choice is a wagon car like audi a6 or something like that
cheers !
You do get reamed for income tax though. Our health insurance costs were a lot less than the difference in income tax between what we were paying in Ontario Canada and the US.
3:44 The vehicle was completely customizable. You bought the frame, body, and chassis of the cars as well, but you had the option to convert it into a pickup truck.
You dont have a usecase for pickup trucks in Europe. Any normal car can accommodate your shopping bag. I guess a pickup truck in the US is like saying my dlck is bigger than yours. The same goes for expensive sportscars i Europe. BTW I am curious. Who pays for the roads in the US? Do they just fall down from the sky above you totally free to use? ;) Nice reaction Nurse Lady
Europeans drive Toyota Hillux pickups.
The reason our gas is so expensive in the UK is because of the government tax, for example pink Deisel (mainly for farm machinery) which is cheap and works well in normal cars but it's illegal to put in your car because the government can't tax it so we have to put expensive gas in our cars also deisel is even more expensive. a couple years ago the government said to buy diesel cars cause there better for the inviroment then put diesel tax right up to get money from those who fell for the cheap deisel scheme.
A truck here in the UK/Europe is more fuel efficient and though our petrol/diesel seems more expensive per Gallon the price p/Gal vs mileage efficiency is relatively similar.
A US truck is not efficient and would fail emission tests, the MPG is not as good and a US built truck is too large for many of European roads.
A few do drive pickups but they are usually Nissan or Mitsubishi brands.
I drive an SUV which gives me 45-60 mpg depending on town, city, country, highway driving.
In many other Countries, instead of "Pick up" trucks, there exists Utility Vehicles. (Often just called Utes) EG Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Asian Countries. Smaller than your Pick ups.
Yes there is VAT, import duty tax, tax on vehicle registration and tax on fuel.
Its all meant to give more incentives to use public transport and or biking/walking.
The gas-tax is included in those prices. in Europe pricetags are allways include the tax. The price you see, the price you pay at the counter / check-out. different to the US.
Gas, or Petrol as we call it, is highly taxed for two reasons. The first is to raise revenue for the government and the second is to persuade users to switch to non fossil fuels such as Electricity. Also the city centre pollution from diesel truck and petrol car engines has caused London to force visiting motorists to pay a levy within London Clean Air Zone.
The tax on petrol is 65.45 cents per liter and on diesel 47.04 cents per liter. Added to this is the VAT of 19 percent. At the current price level, this is around 31 cents for the Super E10 and almost 32 cents for diesel.
It was 11$ a gallon on top in norway, but cars here use almost no fuel. And the need for car is less, public transport is great most places. Buss train tram and so on
Hello. Terminology here in the UK is so different to the US. Yes a car is a car and a pick-up truck is a pick-up truck. Vans are light commercial vehicles often car based for the smaller ones like the Ford Fiesta, larger vans are usually Ford Transit but most makers have similar models.
Next we have HGV’s Heavy Goods Vehicles. These we call Lorries & Trucks. What you call a Semi and Trailer we call either a Juggernaut or more usually an Articulated Lorry. HGV licenses are required for HGV’s, a much stiffer test and a regular medical. All vehicles over a certain weight must have a taco-graph fitted, this records time travelled, rest times and speed.
Australia is a bit different, there they have road trains, a prime mover and up to 4 trailers. Distances they travel is great and usually in the outback,
In UK right now it is £1.48 per litre which works out to £5.60 for US Gallon which is $6.90 with current exchange rate of 1.23 dollars for a UK pound. A large proportion of the price in the UK and other countries in Europe and in some other places is because of added taxes to discourage fuel consumption and raise money. If all the taxes were removed in the UK price it would be $3.68 per US Gallon at the moment.
And yes US gallons are different to Imperial Gallon.
I wish fuel was £1.48 ?? It’s £1.89 where I live that’s the trouble with Britain travel 10 miles and can have 3 - 4 different prices
@@amiemarieattridge1158 £1.37 round my way.
@@amiemarieattridge1158 That is an average price from the RAC. The station nearest me is £1.40 today for unleaded E10.
In Norway, a good number of full-size US pickups are sold, both new and imported used.
The US allows much lower towing capacity for normal cars than Europe.
So more pickups are bought to haul stuff?
VW Golf in the US:
"Volkswagen Golf (All Variations) Towing Not Recommended
The Volkswagen Golf along with all its variations isn't designed to tow any cargo. "
VW Golf 8 for example in Europe:
Perm. trailer load : 1600 Kg / 3527 lbs
VW Tiguan US:
Volkswagen Tiguan 2,200 lbs
VW Tiguan Europe:
2500 kg / 5,511 lbs
It's also not considered a work vehicle but a recreational one because we use real trucks in different sizes actual work vehicles based on real trucks and not in giant 4x4
Taxes are for road maintaince and improve and promote community transportation. Also, import taxes are in order to boost France, German and Italian car factories. Gas taxes are for enviromental and many many other reasons. Also, farmers in most countries take back a gas-relief check if the gas price go up. Not to mention fuel emmisions clearence tax, a price that goes up every year on clearence of fuel companies. They pay more every year in order to have an allowence to produse gasoline. Producers raise the price and consumers buy less. ETS. European Trading System for CO2 emmisions.
In Finland gas price is around $7.70 / gallon at the moment and as always in Europe prices mentioned normally include all the taxes, 56% of the price is different kind of taxes.
And some of the bigger versions like 350/450/650 u need I think medium truck license too. More heavy trucks u need another license too. Plus one more thing voltsvagen is German not Swedish
The import tax from Europe to the US is high as well.
Thats the reason why japanese and german companies are produce there cars in the US.
Trucks were never produced in Europe.
Just looked it up we are the equivalent to $6.912 USD per gallon in the UK that's including Tax.
Because of our weather over here it's best to have a covered cargo area, Ie Van, as a pick up would become a mobile swimming pool very quickly.
Also nearly all pick ups are only built as left hand drive, and we need the wheel on the right in the UK.
We don’t need a cross walk, we have intelligence.
Imagine, I guess you know a Hummer, well in my country (The Netherlands ) its forbidden to be driving a Hummer on the streets just because its just too wide. Also the extra blinding lights on these trucks are totally forbidden in my country, obviously because they blind the other traffic.
How many pickup trucks you see on the road actually have something in the bed?
European craftsmen prefer closed vans, simply because the tools in them are protected from rain and can be secured better.
And if private individuals need to transport something larger, they rent the appropriate vehicle.
Most people don't need to drag a boat from one place to another everyday... (When you do, you rent a bigger pickup for that specific task.)
Farmers, who regularly may need to pull heavy loads and also need the extra power that will allow them to climb steep tracks, qualify for subsidised diesel.
Hi, I am from Belgium. I will try to answer a couple of your questions. The taxes on fuel are included in the price. Toyota is a big player in the pick-up market in Europe with the Hilux. The big US pick-ups are completely useless for professional use in Europe, not only because of the size but especially because of our weight limitations. With a normal car driving licence (B) we can only drive cars with a maximum allowed weight (vehicle + load) of 3500 kg (7700 lbs) and we are only allowed to haul trailers without brakes up to 500 kg (1100 lbs) or braked up to 750 kg (1650 lbs). This includes the weight of the trailer and the load. With a trailer driving licence (B+E) we are allowed to tow up to 3500kg (7700 lbs) using a braked trailer (combined weight of trailer and load). For heavier loads we need an actual truck licence (and truck) (C or C+E). We don’t only pay a lot of taxes when buying a car but every year we pay taxes to own the car. These taxes are based on displacement. A 2.8L already costs around 850 euros a year, a 4L costs 2160 euros a year. And the museum you were talking about is probably Autoworld.
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As an example how much availible vihicles that exist in the U.S. cost here in Germany at a Ford dealership: Ford Bronco starts at 74.500,- €, Ford Ranger at 40.210,- €, Mustang at 59.900,- €,
Ford Explorer Plug-in-Hybrid at 86.490,- € and the F-150, which should come this year, is astimated to start at 95-110.000,- €. Cars that cost you over there like a full shopping cart over here
come more or less twice their price. For ex. a full Toyota Camry TRD MY'24 costs only 37.000,- $US which are only around 34.400,- €, so in the end it would come ~ 74.000,-$US in comparison.
Even the VW Golf starts at ~ 29.300,- € at a basic trim level and will more realisticly be ~ 35.000,- € at least.
I would exchange the Hotdog vs. Hamburger but it`s just so sterotypical as Germans in Lederhosen, with Schnitzel and Aldi.
In Germany a "Kombis" or Station Wagons although very common. Like "Audi A6 Avant" and "BMW 5er Touring". They can haul alot and are very low fuel consumers.
Greetings from Emsdetten, Germany
Here in the UK the typical workman's car is a van, and it seems much more reasonable. What i don't get about pickup trucks is: if you have something to haul (furniture, luggage etc) why would you want it exposed to the weather? With a van you can haul stuff and not have it get wet from rain/ snow and you don't have to take extra precautions so that it doesn't fall out to the road. Seems like a no-brainer.
also our pickup for work is a van as they have van pickup versions, farmers will use the car version due to size, we all know how narrow those country lanes can get and sure many pickups would not fit on our country roads
Many of your add-ons to the trucks (e.g. lights) would lead to the truck to lose its permission to be used on public roads. At least in Germany you'd need to have each add-on evaluated by the authorities and approved.
One of the main reasons we don't buy your pick-ups, or cars, is the fuel consumption or rather the lack of it. Why would we want to drive something with the consumption of a semi?
9:30 yes i have hauled a giant trailer with my small van that only had 2.3 litre diesel engine. I also have hauled my brothers lorry engine inside it when he needed a replacement and had zero problems while doing that other than it barely fit inside my small nissan van.
Vans hold a lot more cargo for the builder, plumbers etc. Also the engines are very efficient so they have lots of torque and fuel efficiency and there are good tow vehicles
A V8 is sweet though
Eg. in Germany you will find most US trucks like Ram1500 or Ford-F150 on sale equipped with an LPG system in order to drive it with cheaper LPG (liquefied petroleum gas).