Why There Are So Few Pickup Trucks In Europe - Cheddar Examines

There's nothing more American than cowboy hats, Walmart hot dogs, and of course,

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trucks

. Chevy

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have helped change the way America works and plays with the best gas mileage and is designed to take a cue from the Ford F-150, it is the best-selling vehicle in America and has been for 42 consecutive years. Of course, on the other side of the pond things are different, the best-selling cars are usually small hatchbacks like the Volkswagen Golf, in fact you will rarely see a citizen of Denmark driving a station wagon, so how did the United States fall in love with it?

United of the van and why don't we, oh, let's take a look? In 1915, Chevrolet manufactured the model 490, named appropriately for the vehicle's list price of $490, but these vehicles had one drawback: They were sold with frames only, so customers had to purchase the body box. and cab separately and mostly from independent companies for an extra hundred dollars plus the all-American

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truck began to gain momentum among the general public with the booming auto industry after World War I. The American industrialist Henry Ford first noticed the used pickup trucks. by the US military during the war and predicted that there would be a market for something similar among the American working class, so here M spearheads production in factory-built pickup trucks like the Ford Model T runabout which, unlike its predecessor, included a truck part due to this early success Ford launched its new line of pickup trucks in 1948 the f series the f series encompasses both light and heavy duty trucks with the continued success of the f series other automotive companies began to capture the growing demand for trucks in the United States The Chevrolet C/K, now known as Silverado, was introduced in 1975 and the first generation Dodge Ram in 1980 and over time they became larger and larger, but Europe was not participating in this truck boom.

There was a smaller market for pickup trucks, but even those consisting of more compact Japanese models, for example, in the first half of 2017, eighty thousand three hundred pickup trucks were sold across Europe, compared to the pickup truck market in the US. USA, where during the same period more than two hundred thousand medium-sized trucks and more than 1 million were sold. Full-size pickups were sold, so why hasn't a pickup set spread across Europe? Well, first, let's get the easy answer out of the fact that gas prices in Europe are more than double prices in the United States as of this year.

The average price of a gallon of gasoline is dollars and 40 cents in countries like France and Italy. Average prices can reach up to six dollars and eight cents per gallon. Most of the most popular pickup trucks in the United States have large capacity fuel tanks, so this would establish European car owners receive a considerable amount of money each year for gasoline alone. They use more conventional just because the aerodynamics are excellent. They are also heavy. So yes, you end up using more fuel. Take a look at the Ford F-150, its tank. can hold up to 36 gallons at a time on average, a driver in Europe would have to pay around one hundred and eighty dollars to fill the F-150's tank, but the fuel itself is not a major issue, but it will be in the future .

Commercial vehicles have to meet strict CO2 targets, which means they have to be fuel efficient and there's no way you can easily do that in a van because it's pretty simple things that you know if you start adding a load of Hybrid or electric technology will raise prices to the point where people won't be interested if you follow even something about French politics, press the last, say, year and a half you've probably seen. something about the best yellow protests that happen in cities and countries and that actually started because of the gas tax increase, so people who live in rural areas have to drive further, they spent more time on the road and, Therefore, although the gasoline tax was motivated by the desire to reduce consumption, improve the environment, it affected those people much more, but gasoline prices do not explain everything, let's compare these two streets, which one do you think? which is in Europe and which is in the United States, it's simple, many European urban streets.

They are thin and trucks are usually wide with the rearview mirrors the Ford F-150 is a little over 6 feet tall and about 8 feet wide these measurements are considerably larger than most European vehicles, take the car Europe's best-selling Volkswagen Golf, which is a foot and a half smaller in both directions now the United States. The interstate highway system requires standard 12-foot-wide lanes in Europe, while road measurements vary from country to country. The minimum width can range from 8.2 feet to 10 point 7 feet, so driving one of these trucks in an 8.2 foot lane would definitely be convenient. with its own set of challenges, some of the urban road systems go back to medieval times, where you know they're very pretty, they're very narrow when they're arrows and it's very difficult to maneuver a van at times, I mean, it's not doable and people you know, but it takes a certain type of person to be confident, thanks to most people, just an actress confident enough to drive one of these easily every day.

Another reason the pickup truck isn't as popular in Europe comes down to Texas before consumers can. To start driving your truck, you first have to go through an extensive and, in most cases, customs clearance process. The initial step of the process involves paying an import tax and duty on all the different types of vehicles. Pickup trucks have the highest import tariffs, depending on the load size of your cargo, the tax can cost between 10 and 22 percent of the necessary cost. Along with this additional expense, consumers are also responsible for paying an import tax or value-added tax that ranges from 19 to 22 percent, depending on.

Generally, in the country, the total aggregate expense of import tax and duty will be around one-third of the purchase price of the van and once paid, multiple forms and documents will be required to process these documents and officially register them. . within the country, so this part of customs clearance may take a significant amount of time to complete. Lastly, the cultural importance of the pickup truck in the United States doesn't have the same effect on consumers in parts of Europe that the pickup truck is almost connected to. I would say it's a cowboy image, but it's kind of a rugged individual personality, Independent and very Western, through its appearances in films and commercials, the truck has become an icon of the rugged American exterior.

This particular aesthetic does not resonate to that extent with the general population. in Europe, although many people in Europe love the outdoors, they know that they don't necessarily want to show up in the car, they drive the vehicle, they drive this type of hunting, shooting, fishing, the same way that maybe they do in the United States . You also know that we don't. It doesn't tow in the same way, despite all these reasons, the pickup truck has seen some periods of increasing popularity in recent years, according to data collected by Jeido Dynamics, sales of the midsize pickup truck in Europe increased by 19% in the first half of 2017, this can be attributed to changes in government regulations.

European countries have begun enacting strict fuel economy laws and emissions standards that are causing the market for traditional body-on-frame SUVs, such as the Land Rover Defender, to decline. These SUVs were primarily used to haul large cargo like trailers and boats and now that they were discontinued, European customers had to look elsewhere for these types of work crossovers, forget it, their small displacement engines couldn't provide enough torque needed for towing. heavy equipment and therefore enters medium-sized pickup trucks, above all. Ford Ranger, with the exception of the Ranger, there is still little American presence in the European truck market.

Instead, European automakers began building their own versions of the All American vehicle and formed alliances with Japanese companies to build pickup trucks based on existing models. Cars like the Mercedes-Benz X-Class and then the Renault Alaska, to name a few, which were built on the skeletons of the Nissan Navara. Unfortunately, this market has had little success in continuing production, so manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz are hoping to cancel their pickup truck. truck lines in 2020, the Ranger has done well on the back of that which is as American as it gets the fact that the American truck that has defined a generation of the country's working class and their adventure-seeking families outdoors can continue fighting to see progress throughout Europe