[lproven]

Exactly!

This whole article is so pervasively American that it was just about unreadable to me. It's a fairly rare and quite novel experience: it's in my native language, but so completely based on US assumptions and presumption of shared knowledge that I do not have, that it just... doesn't parse.

* His parents apparently live on some plot of land the size of a largish city. Presumably alone?

* The vehicle is a perfectly normal full-size truck of some kind, but he keeps talking about it as if it were a toy. He constantly compares it to a "golf cart" as if those were everyday things. I played golf for a decade and have never seen one except on TV. I presume it's a thing for morbidly-obese Americans?

* It is a real car but it doesn't comply with fnargle-wurgle edict 27B § 42 from the Glarg of Bargwargle, but obviously everyone knows the Bargwargle so no need to explain that.

* I bought it from China for only $LOTS but really it was a cost of $LOTS because $LOTS doesn't count and $LOTS is always there anyway so it's OK to pay $LOTS for a toy. Hello fellow humans! I am a perfectly normal human!

* It is a toy but I can use it on my parent's private city where 100,000 of you peasants from the barbarian lands could live, but we are not barbarians and anyway we shoot barbarians here.

Such a very strange article. Such a very strange country.

[fooker]

This is a cheap toy truck for pretty much any industrialized country. It’s weird to compare heavy machinery sizes as if it was up to personal preferences.

Maybe look past your vitriol towards the US?

[lproven]

It is only toy-sized by US standards. By the standards of pretty much any other country in the world, it's a normal-sized vehicle, even a large one. Go read about tuk-tuks. Visit Asia some time.

Vitriol?

Pity for a culture so dependent on a machine I personally dislike: the motor car.

Distaste and disdain for a culture whose example is destroying the world.

I reserve vitriol for more important things.

[Gordonjcp]

> By the standards of pretty much any other country in the world, it's a normal-sized vehicle, even a large one.

It's not much bigger than a quad bike. It would just about fit in the back of my Range Rover if I put the seats down.

> Go read about tuk-tuks.

Tuk-tuks aren't real vehicles either. You can't even make them road-legal in the UK, where the most you need to do is "does it have some sort of brake and some sort of mudguard on all its road wheels, some sort of brake light, and some sort of exhaust silencer?"

[lproven]

> It would just about fit in the back of my Range Rover if I put the seats down.

I submit that a Range Rover is not a normal-sized vehicle, either.

> You can't even make them road-legal in the UK

You had better tell this company quickly, then -- they are already selling them.

https://tukshop.com/buy-a-tuk-tuk

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[Gordonjcp]

So, tuk-tuks very much not like the ones they have in Asia then?

As for the size of vehicles, it kind of depends what you consider normal-sized. What do you think I should get instead?

[fooker]

Tuk-tuks are not used for the same purpose trucks are used for.

I am from a third world country and have seen plenty of trucks on roads and private properties.

[Gordonjcp]

> The vehicle is a perfectly normal full-size truck of some kind, but he keeps talking about it as if it were a toy

It's the size of one of those little Kubota ATVs that can carry roughly a 25kg bag of feed and a bale of hay. It's limited to 25mph. If you wanted it to go faster than 25mph, you could load it into the bed of a standard-size Ford Transit.

It's a tiny wee electric buggy that you could *just about* make road-legal under the UK's famously lax laws.

It is not in any sense a "full-size truck".

[CyberDildonics]

he keeps talking about it as if it were a toy

It has a top speed of 25 mph.

as if those were everyday things

This is something common that children learn about.

The rest of your comment seems like incoherent venting.

[lproven]

Google the phrase "tuk-tuk" and learn about how such small vehicles are the backbone of the economies of countries home to an aggregate population about ten times that of the USA.

[CyberDildonics]

Tuk Tuks go a lot faster than 25 mph and they aren't trucks. I'm not sure why you are so upset about so many things in an article about a scaled down electric truck. Google polaris and you can see that there have already been things like this sold for years. Your whole meltdown over this is pretty bizarre.