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The US is full of SUVs because of CAFE law. SUVs are trucks and thus have lower mpg requirements. Look at what's sold in the US. Almost all cars are tiny and grossly underpowered if more than 1 adult is in it. So our choices are a truck, SUV, or minivan.
I can go on vacation for a month with my family of four in my 2008 Prius
I'll take the roof!
I also have a small sedan. Power is worse than the small sedan I had 20 years ago. At least it's safer.
We're still very far from US sized cars.
It's mostly to remove the vehicles responsible for the most emissions.
Well I see more and more morons who are certainly not farmers drive around in Dodge RAMs and Ford F150s
What a terrible article headline. Had to scroll through three paragraphs before it finally got to the damn point. Alternative headline: “Paris enforces higher parking fees for oversized vehicles”
I mean, parking with a big car would be more of a nightmare than it is already in small-sized europe.
I guess that's the actual objective. Making driving unbearable
This should be an easy fix for France (or any country). Don't make dumb laws.
Dumb laws or laws smartly written by the automobile industry themselves?
Oh no, how would small dick rich parisians even compensate with that law in place?!