Bloated cars are effectively holding up a knuckleduster-decorated middle finger in the face of climate change.
The supersizing of our world is consuming our cars. Let’s eat jumbo-sized muffins, live in McMansions with no garden space, lust over phones that don’t fit in a pocket, and drive to work solo on urban roads in cars that are technically trucks. I reckon these mega-machines – which go by names like Ram, Gladiator and Raptor – are symbolic of everything that’s wrong with our world.
What I do know is that a Ram’s front grill is at shoulder height and the highest point of the bonnet is at my ear-level. Sure, I’m short but I’m taller than most kids, who research has shown arewhen hit by even a “regular” SUV as opposed to a sedan or hatch. That’s due to being hit at torso or head height, not to mention the force created by a 2000-plus kilogram vehicle that’s likely travelling faster at impact as all that weight requires increased stopping distances.
Ram’s current slogan – “eats everything else for breakfast” – strikes me as being a poor-taste apology for bad behaviour on the road .As a small car driver, I find sharing the road with these truckzillas intimidating. I accept trucks, buses and vans as part of our road system but not work- and school-run vehicles so big that my car’s bonnet almost fitsMega vehicles are another example of the US-ification of Australia.
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