Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

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  1. Caesar

    Caesar Road Train Member

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    Are you blind? These three trucks are roughly the same size, have the same cab, and use the same engines. That makes them comparable.
    No, Australians. That's why Paccar US is producing and selling these trucks in the USA.
     
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  3. Oxbow

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    You must not be able to see: The question was "Have you drove it?"

    Which Americans? There are more than just a few.

    The same logic could be applied to Tofu, but that doesn't mean that most Americans like it.
     
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    My local Peteerbilt dealer has one of the LF 220 as a box truck. They were and might still be a Mitsubishi Fuso dealer. The LF was supposed to replace the Fuso as a parts truck. No one would drive the LF and they preferred the wore out Fuso. They tried to selling the LF, but it has been sitting for over a year. Maybe I will pass them your phone number @Caesar .
     
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    @spsauerland , you cannot use empirical evidence with Caesar. It blows his thesis to smithereens!
     
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  6. Caesar

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    That question was asked because I wrote the trucks were comparable. You don't have to drive them to see that they are comparable.

    Did you drive that fire truck of which you knew for sure that it had a water bed handling? No, you even didn't know how it looked, how it is produced, or anything.
    Americans with a "Make Paccar Great Again" cap. If you want to know, ask Paccar marketing. It was Paccar that decided to build the trucks remember? I'm sure they did their market research.
     
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    The empirical evidence shows that these trucks are being produced and sold. One truck with one dealer has no meaning.
     
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    Still cannot answer the question eh?
     
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    No Caesar, asking the same question over, and over again for 900+ pages just to tell you, that you should shut up, and stop telling us how Daf/EU trucks are superior to any other. No YT videos needed.

    You simply never driven peterbilt, kenworth, scania, daf, volvo, you don't know how it's to drive a Daf, I didn't drive most of those trucks myself too, but I can see that in many things daf is a piece of #### garbage, compared to other trucks I've driven. But I've never tried to convince our NA friends here, that our trucks are better, simply because my whole NA experience is driving a VNL Volvo around yard (and that's more than you will ever do, propably).

    So please, shut up.
     
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  10. Oxbow

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    Tofu is produced and sold as well, but that doesn't make it popular.
     
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