Keine großen Lastwagen für kleine Straßen: Amerikanische OEMs sagen, die EU blockiert Importe | Europäische Käufer sind nicht an Full-Size-Trucks interessiert; Der US-Autoindustrie ist das egal.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/
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Good, why would we want them? Neither cheap nor good. Oh and good luck parking
We make a lot of smaller trucks which would be fine for the EU market. Sell those.
Considering both US and EU have tariffs of 15% and US has chicken tax on top of it for trucks it is pretty rich coming from US that they need even more help to sell their crappy cars in EU.
Especially as nobody is interested in trucks in EU. That segment is solidly occupied by van.
Considering my half ton “mini truck” is the size of a 2 ton from ten years ago with a fraction of the capability Id say american truck makers lost the plot a long time ago
I just want compact pickups to be available in the US again.
I have an old Tacoma that I use for my „farm truck“ but it’s still bigger than I need with the gas mileage to go with it.
I just need a pickup bed for hauling the occasional sheet of plywood or appliances or small loads of dirt/gravel.
Toyota used to have a tiny pickup that would be absolutely perfect for my needs, the old Ford Rangers were great too, but you just can’t get small trucks like that here anymore.
Americans need to realize how small a lot of roads around the world are. I saw a Ford fusion driving down a Dutch road. The road was one lane in each direction. It was driving uncomfortably over the line forcing vehicles on the other side to navigate carefully around it, slowing down traffic immensely. I also saw an older Hyundai elantra try to navigate down a Caribbean road and it too made things difficult.
Don’t try to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Americans so indoctrinated in the car culture and the unfortunate lack of public transport that they’re buying oversized trucks to drive from their suburban home to Walmart and football practice.
Meanwhile I actually live outside of the city and did several moves with heavy furniture and regularly transport bags of dirt and seedlings etc just with Skoda Kodiaq.
If EU consumers don’t care… and US sellers don’t care… what are we even doing here?
Bring back affordable, rugged, simple mid sized vehicles. I don’t want to drive a living room on wheels. Not even as a trades van.
Meanwhile the us wont let me buy a fucking Hilux or any kind of small truck. Only big bastards that don’t ever fit in my garage.
How about making vehicles that fit the market??
keep fighting the fight EU.
I live in the UK near some US air bases. I regularly see full sized American pickup trucks on the road here. While they’re fine to drive on the road, they’re not any bigger than a standard EU van There’s absolutely no where to park them. As someone who has driven a Mercedes Sprinter around towns, If you ever have to go somewhere in a city centre, good fucking luck. While I do see quite a few full size US pickup trucks, they’re always outside of the city centres for that exact reason.
I say let them try to sell them. No one’s going to actually buy them but they have to invest a lot of money to _try_ and sell here anyway. They’ll lose every investment they make since no one sane is going to want a car that doesn’t fit on many of our roads and driveways, won’t fit into a parking spot and doesn’t meet the emission requirements for most big cities‘ city centers.
Apart from the fact that most of us really aren’t that happy to buy _anything_ American right now, let alone something this expensive.
So go ahead, open up shop. Let’s see how that goes for them.
I’m Canadian, our pick-up culture (especially where I live) is pretty much the same as the states, and can’t say I get it. Like from pure utility standpoint, I can see the appeal, but most probably never carried anything. So I can’t only assume it’s a flex.
They also gotten way too big over the past 20 years, and IMO are a hazard on the roads. I’ve been told the ever growing size is emission standards don’t apply, but that could be BS.
I hope the oil shock causes a re-evaluation, I’d like to see small pick-ups to return on mass.
In Europe, we tend to drive cars, not trucks (aka lorries).
They are easier to use on normal sized roads and use much less fuel.
that shits too big for NA roads, good luck driving something like that on EU
Jeez these titles are getting crazy.
Don’t really wanna get these thirsty monstrosities
The land of folding in your mirrors to park. No way a bedliner hauler would be a good idea there
I’d rather they keep their culture to themselves. I have no interest visiting the US and I’d prefer it if the US stayed where it is.
I have a 99 s10 long bed that I have literally driven until the wheels were falling off. Replaced the front end and will continue to drive it until I can get a Hilux Champ or American manufacturers pull their heads out of their asses long enough to design a small truck.
Misleading title. Those aren’t full size trucks. They are oversized trucks.
Other than physical size, another consideration is paying 180€ to fill a 90L or larger fuel tank typical in full-size American trucks.
Many Americans are unaware that fuel in Europe is 3 to 4 times the cost of gasoline in the US, and many European countries add penalties for registering large, gas-guzzling vehicles.
Good for them. Truck sizes are out of control and it’s not based on need. If given the opportunity to buy massive trucks strictly based on vanity, Americans will, and endanger people around them to do so. Not to mention generate a larger amount of greenhouse gases, hog up lanes and parking places.
Have they driven in Europe?! I had passenger van for work in Sicily and could literally, physically not fit in some streets. My compact SUV was also sketchy crossing another car on some rural roads in the UK. I have a truck here in Canada and it is hard enough to get in and out of parking spots. I would never want to drive an F-150 in Europe.
UK here
Our own crossover shit is already too big and heavy, you can see shit on the road because of them
If we had actual yank tanks people would be dying left and right
The EU gets to make its own rules. Either follow them or don’t sell in their market.
Good. Keep those pedestrian killers off our roads.
They also destroy roads, pollute everything, take away space and cost too much.
Ugly ass wanna be trucks
What is that headline? EU doesn’t want big US trucks, US companies don’t care. Okay, so everyone’s happy?
Why are gas guzzlers featured in /technology?
We hardly have room for them in the US, nevermind anywhere else
Why would they care? We have plenty of people in the US making 40k a year willing to pay 100k for a truck.
what do they expect? we move our houses and make new roads? for their cars? fuck no. we need less and smaller cars, not bigger ones
Meanwhile people in the US that want compact trucks aren’t able to get any. The smallest real trucks you can buy are the size that full trucks were 25 years ago.