A 92% increase of a small number is still small, the number of electric vechicle has seen a far greater increase.
>menacing vehicles
Some people need to get a grip
Quagers on
This is in particular due to a tax dodge which makes them VED free, government tried to close the loophole last year but backed down (as always).
*Edit: to avoid 50 more posts telling me Im wrong. Until last year they were commercially flat rated for VED and exempt from BIK rules as a company car.*
*Last year the govt. Closed the BIK loophole. However they remain at the commercil flat rate of VED rather than being changed based on emissions like normal cars, making them much cheaper than they would otherwise be. They also may be exempt from the luxury vehicle tax.*
Yeah, uh, these small trucks are used as wheel chocks by full sized US trucks like the Ford 150, Dodge Ram etc. It’s always the people who have never stepped outside who get their opinions broadcast, isn’t it?
Edit: Let’s get some figures:
Ford F-150
• Width: ~2030 mm (79.9 in) 
• Length: 5884 – 6184 mm (~232 in max)
• Sold in 2025: ~620,850 in the US, 0 in UK (US’s best selling truck)
Ford Ranger
• Width: ~1918 – 2032 mm (75.5 – 80.1 in) 
• Length: ~5370 – 5470 mm (211.4 – 215.4 in)
• Sold in 2025: ~56,019 in the US, 17,462 in UK (UK’s best selling truck)
Audi A6 for comparison
• Width: ~1886 mm (74.3 in) 
• Length: ~4939 mm (194.4 in)
So we can see what a “US-style” truck actually is, and how the tiny weeny trucks is Brits get upset about compare to something we don’t look twice at
SevenNites on
These are better than Tesla’s that fund Elon Musk fascist platform, X.
IrishMilo on
This article is nonsense. It’s saying that the doubling of US style pickups has doubled and that they now roam our city streets… in reality it’s counting all pickups, and shows no evidence that they’re more present in cities.
What they aren’t saying is that in the last 10 years there’s been an influx of high capability, low cost pick ups like Dacia and D-Max (neither American in manufacturing or style) that make for great utility vehicles, and probably replaced utility SUVs or micro vans. Also completely ignores the fact that SUVs have rebranded in the last 10 years and now cost considerably more.
It’s actually outrageous that someone has been paid real money to write an article about there being 300k more pick ups on the road and has provided zero analysis.
ken-doh on
Small penis coping syndrome has spread from the US.
Mimicking-hiccuping on
What makes a pickup an American style? Feckless writing, that is
AltoCumulus15 on
Everyone I know who owns a pickup and isn’t a farmer is an arsehole, and clearly compensating for their small manhood.
MrLubricator on
Mental that they are allowed. They dont meet our safety requirements and so shouldn’t be allowed on our roads.
Bigtallanddopey on
One thing I doubt they have factored into this, is the decline of the land rover being used as a vehicle in rural areas. A lot of farmers no longer use the defender as their main vehicle, as they are simply priced out of it. The new defender starts at around £60k, a new Ford ranger starts at around £30k. Many people living rurally, are going for that cheaper option.
It won’t be the whole story, but it will be a decent part of it.
ApprehensiveDare2649 on
I don’t see them as any more of a problem than the huge amounts of suvs on the road nowadays.
It’s slightly crazy to we aren’t taxing SUVs more given the push to be more environmentally friendly.
Letting more people buy large vehicles than they need seems counterproductive.
phild1979 on
Sensationalist headline really(shocker for the guardian) . 300,000 over 12 years isn’t that big of a jump. The ford ranger is still the most common and we’ve had that since 1998.
KeegsNW on
Easy fix to ban street parking for vehicles over a certain size. Give exception to work vans during 9-5 monday to friday.
Sunshinetrooper87 on
Time to bring in additional parking charges for these twat mobiles. Ruddy annoying watching them eat up parking spaces and be a general liability.
Still-Status7299 on
Weve got a LHD behemoth in our town, looks like some sort of import. Its a stupid idea since most of our rural roads are narrow
Aggravating_Speed665 on
We should start a luddite-esk movement to rid the country of them.
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A 92% increase of a small number is still small, the number of electric vechicle has seen a far greater increase.
>menacing vehicles
Some people need to get a grip
This is in particular due to a tax dodge which makes them VED free, government tried to close the loophole last year but backed down (as always).
*Edit: to avoid 50 more posts telling me Im wrong. Until last year they were commercially flat rated for VED and exempt from BIK rules as a company car.*
*Last year the govt. Closed the BIK loophole. However they remain at the commercil flat rate of VED rather than being changed based on emissions like normal cars, making them much cheaper than they would otherwise be. They also may be exempt from the luxury vehicle tax.*
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/-widespread-misunderstanding-around-pick-up-truck-taxation-changes
> US style
> Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux
Yeah, uh, these small trucks are used as wheel chocks by full sized US trucks like the Ford 150, Dodge Ram etc. It’s always the people who have never stepped outside who get their opinions broadcast, isn’t it?
Edit: Let’s get some figures:
Ford F-150
• Width: ~2030 mm (79.9 in) 
• Length: 5884 – 6184 mm (~232 in max)
• Sold in 2025: ~620,850 in the US, 0 in UK (US’s best selling truck)
Ford Ranger
• Width: ~1918 – 2032 mm (75.5 – 80.1 in) 
• Length: ~5370 – 5470 mm (211.4 – 215.4 in)
• Sold in 2025: ~56,019 in the US, 17,462 in UK (UK’s best selling truck)
Audi A6 for comparison
• Width: ~1886 mm (74.3 in) 
• Length: ~4939 mm (194.4 in)
So we can see what a “US-style” truck actually is, and how the tiny weeny trucks is Brits get upset about compare to something we don’t look twice at
These are better than Tesla’s that fund Elon Musk fascist platform, X.
This article is nonsense. It’s saying that the doubling of US style pickups has doubled and that they now roam our city streets… in reality it’s counting all pickups, and shows no evidence that they’re more present in cities.
What they aren’t saying is that in the last 10 years there’s been an influx of high capability, low cost pick ups like Dacia and D-Max (neither American in manufacturing or style) that make for great utility vehicles, and probably replaced utility SUVs or micro vans. Also completely ignores the fact that SUVs have rebranded in the last 10 years and now cost considerably more.
It’s actually outrageous that someone has been paid real money to write an article about there being 300k more pick ups on the road and has provided zero analysis.
Small penis coping syndrome has spread from the US.
What makes a pickup an American style? Feckless writing, that is
Everyone I know who owns a pickup and isn’t a farmer is an arsehole, and clearly compensating for their small manhood.
Mental that they are allowed. They dont meet our safety requirements and so shouldn’t be allowed on our roads.
One thing I doubt they have factored into this, is the decline of the land rover being used as a vehicle in rural areas. A lot of farmers no longer use the defender as their main vehicle, as they are simply priced out of it. The new defender starts at around £60k, a new Ford ranger starts at around £30k. Many people living rurally, are going for that cheaper option.
It won’t be the whole story, but it will be a decent part of it.
I don’t see them as any more of a problem than the huge amounts of suvs on the road nowadays.
It’s slightly crazy to we aren’t taxing SUVs more given the push to be more environmentally friendly.
Letting more people buy large vehicles than they need seems counterproductive.
Sensationalist headline really(shocker for the guardian) . 300,000 over 12 years isn’t that big of a jump. The ford ranger is still the most common and we’ve had that since 1998.
Easy fix to ban street parking for vehicles over a certain size. Give exception to work vans during 9-5 monday to friday.
Time to bring in additional parking charges for these twat mobiles. Ruddy annoying watching them eat up parking spaces and be a general liability.
Weve got a LHD behemoth in our town, looks like some sort of import. Its a stupid idea since most of our rural roads are narrow
We should start a luddite-esk movement to rid the country of them.