Onyma Report This Comment
Date: April 10, 2026 10:06PM

I just spent a week touring rural UK and those roads are not wide enough for most modern cars!

pulse Report This Comment
Date: April 11, 2026 06:31AM

Yeah, B/C roads can be pretty tiny, and a lot of high hedges with blind corners.

Always fun finding the local rally driving protege coming around a corner on the wrong side of the road at speed..

I hate what cars have become.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: April 11, 2026 01:13PM

American cars aren't the behemoths they were 50 years ago and that carpark looks pretty typical at present except now we have behemoth trucks larger than they were in the past filling them. Our roads are generally wide enough because they've long been designed for the larger American vehicles but it's not unusual to see the rally drivers on two lane roads trying to pass without enough room - there are a couple of main roads in my area that are particularly deadly for that even though they are very straight for miles. I avoid the interstate highways for the most part (our equivalent of motorways) particularly now that I'm retired; there I find too many NASCAR wannabes, NASCAR being the largest, most popular American motorsport which consists of cars that look mostly like normal cars in dense packs at speeds approaching 320kph in the straights of the oval tracks. Yesterday morning I drove for about 30 km on the interstate on the way to investigate a wilderness dirt track I recently learned of and sure enough there was one NASCAR driver weaving in and out with little clearance in the few minutes I was on there. The dumbass nearly clipped me as I'd just passed a slower moving large truck and the race driver decided to scoot between us with minimal room after he'd passed the truck, this after running right up to my rear bumper as I was doing the speed limit. He just couldn't wait a moment for me to safely merge in front of the truck or a spot in the third, outer lane of traffic of fellow travelers consistently and excessively driving over the 113kph speed limit. I don't miss the days when driving was a or the major part of my job, often in large trucks.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2026 01:17PM by quasi.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: April 11, 2026 04:01PM

I hate all the giant utes we get these days. From giant to ridiculous. From a Ford Ranger to an LDV or BYD or F150. Fucking ridiculous and have the same size trays as an old Holden ute which was based on a family car.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: April 12, 2026 02:43AM

I have no problems with big cars IF the infrastructure is designed for it.
In Australian urban area that would be a big NOPE. Get rid of them.
Or make the drivers have a full MR license as most would not pass that test.

Pulse, I have seen a heap of Toyota Tundras in the top end this year.
It's a shame that Toyota feel the need to keep up with this trend.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: April 12, 2026 07:18AM

My in laws live regional, father in law has a big Hilux etc. I have no problems with appropriate vehicles in appropriate areas.

There's a small 1 way street opposite my place and on it somebody has one of the new BYD utes

If there's a car parked on the other side of the road then it's almost impossible to drive down the street, I have to fold the mirrors in on my car, and my car is NOT big.

Has no place in the inner city.