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!

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    In my case multiple times a year… plus construction material, furniture, motorcycles… In the end I need to haul heavy shit multiple times a month.

    Yet, people would take pictures of my SUV and call me an idiot with no respect for driving a big vehicle… With a 4 cylinders that has a fuel consumption that’s the same (or better) as AWD cars that these same people don’t criticize???

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      With a 4 cylinders that has a fuel consumption that’s the same (or better) as AWD cars that these same people don’t criticize???>

      The fuck you talking about?

      More weight = more gas needed to move said vehicle… how can this be possible? Unless your making shit up.

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        All highway, 8.2L/100km, mixed, 9.5L/100km.

        AWD cars with similar power (so mostly V6) are higher than that, even more so if I include towing capacity in the comparison.

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        Just do a little bit of research into the fuel efficiency of various sized vehicles, the correlation is not direct and some larger vehicles get better gas mileage than smaller vehicles strictly due to efficiency. A small inefficient motor and a large efficient motor may yield the same mpg, but the large efficient motor is extracting more power from the same fuel source. And that’s not even getting into diesel versus gasoline…

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          Some being they key word here. Those specific vehicles were built with effency in mind. Now take the Ford F150 being the most common truck in Canada / USeh and I’d bet not a single one will be more efficient than a 6 cylinder AWD car. Your argument is kinda moot as your looking at outliers.

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                Once again, most of your fuel, especially at speed, goes towards overcoming aerodynamic drag. A heavy vehicle with good health aerodynamics will get better efficiency than a light one with poor aerodynamics.

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                  And is an Escalade more areodynamic that a Lancer? Or a Ford F-150? And for most people who drive trucks are they always doing highway speeds or in stop and go bullshit?

                  As I pointed out before there will only be a very small % of large vehicles that will be more aerodynamic than a 6 cylinder car. So again your argument is kinda pointless

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      I think its fair if people call you an idiot for buying an SUV to haul shit - there are far better vehicles for the job.

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        Yes, better drive a truck instead of taking my trailer with me just when it’s necessary, so I take more space and have worse fuel economy 👍