astronautom@lemm.ee to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAustralians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlierwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1111arrow-down1external-linkAustralians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlierwww.theguardian.comastronautom@lemm.ee to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
A good article from The Guardian discussing the trouble we face in Australia with ever increasing vehicle sizes.
minus-squareCypher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days ago This is what we had before Aussie car manufacturing died and people jumped on the yank tank arms race.
minus-squareastronautom@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI was going to say the ute is dead. I didn’t know yank tanks are still being referred to as utes, at least according to Wikipedia. Crazy to think that utes and station wagons have been replaced by giant trucks and SUVs.
This is what we had before Aussie car manufacturing died and people jumped on the yank tank arms race.
I was going to say the ute is dead. I didn’t know yank tanks are still being referred to as utes, at least according to Wikipedia. Crazy to think that utes and station wagons have been replaced by giant trucks and SUVs.