[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people

3 years ago by JaN0h4ck to c/fuckcars

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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Cornpop -4 points 3 years ago

One of them can haul 4 of the other ones.

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barsoap 8 points 3 years ago

SUVs and pulling shit is kinda funny you see: Automatic transmissions have shit torque out of the box, they'd overheat pulling simple trailers so they need additional cooling so they need additional space so Yanks buy oversized cars (whether or not they actually pull anything).

Anyhow if America learned to drive manual transmission like the rest of the world they could pull trailers with Golfs, like the rest of the world.

Heck that SUV there looks larger than a Unimog and I can guarantee you it is nowhere even close to Unimog capabilities. Those things are honorary tractors.

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Ilovethebomb 1 point 3 years ago

Automatic transmissions have shit torque out of the box

Absolute nonsense, the torque converter multiplies torque at low speed, so an automatic with the same gear ratios as a manual will have far more pulling power than a manual.

And a trans cooler is standard on pretty much any automatic vehicle.

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