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!

  • BigNote@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    The answer is a resounding yes; in most of the US it’s absolutely normal to have large appliances delivered, installed and your old appliance hauled away as part of a single purchase. Where this isn’t as true is in rural areas that, especially in the west, are often far more remote than anything in Europe apart from, perhaps, Northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia.

    • Zpiritual@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      I’ve lived in northern sweden and unlike americans we don’t haul appliances around daily. When I would buy one I hooked up my trailer, brought my old broken one to the recycling center and picked up my new from the store going home. Or pay for delivery and disposal if that was an option.

      It would take the entire day due to the distance but that’s not really the fault of the trailer or the car.

      • BigNote@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        WTF are you on about? Where did I say that Americans haul appliances around daily?

        That’s ludicrous.

        Maybe we have a communication failure, I don’t know.

        That said, I have family in Sweden and by all accounts it seems like a better place to live than the US, though I live in the Pacific Northwest and would be very hard-pressed to give up the proximity to wild untouched nature that we have here.

        Even here in Portland I’m still less than a few boat trips and a bush plane ride away from the deep roadless bush in British Columbia or Alaska.