• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Their road tax should be based on engine/volume/passenger capacity.

      If you need it for work get a commercial.

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        A transit or sprinter makes much more sense for commercial use in the vast majority of professions as the cargo space to vehicle ratio is much higher and you can lock the whole thing up.

        The only profession so far I’ve seen where they make some kind of sense is for landscapers, and even that’s debatable considering you can get sprinters with an open bed that is much larger then what’s on these pickups.

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          Not to forget that many vans have an okay towing capacity, so you can just use a trailer.

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            17 hours ago

            Your not towing anything with the smaller transits. And they suck in winter.

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              Man Ive pulled literal tons of cable for 100s of KMs with those, the NV400, the traffic and vivaro. Winter times down to the back of the beyonds. Mind you our winters are wet not the coldest.

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        17 hours ago

        I’m genuinely not aware of a single country that takes vehicle volume into road tax calculations, but that sounds like a damn great idea