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!
Can you link a smaller one that supports 1,500lbs in the bed and 10,000lbs towing?
Where this photo was taken:
- you need a special license to tow more than 750kg (1,650lbs), unless the total weight of car + trailer is lower than 3,500kg (7,700 lbs). This includes the weight of fuel, driver and passengers.
- even the special license doesn’t allow you to tow anything more than 3,500kg (7,700 lbs again).
- if you want to tow even more, you need a truck license (truck as in lorry, not pick-up truck) which has to be renewed every 5 years with an accompanying medical report
How many people do you think are willing to spend this much time, effort and money to do any of that, unless it’s for a job?
@SwedishFool@lemmy.world literally said the relative uses their truck for work, so…
And they’re from Sweden, this picture is from Germany. Ya know, a country with significantly less rural terrain. In addition, this car has no company markings and one of those covers over the bed no one needing to haul large machinery needs.
No one person needs a truck and 99% of campanies needing to haul large machinery just use a Mercedes Sprinter or similar.