Footage of US-style pick-up truck involved in an accident in Sydney …
Footage has captured a US-style pick-up truck involved in an accident with a much smaller vehicle in a carpark.
Brigette Ivana was sitting in her car inside a shopping centre carpark in Sydney[2] on Monday.
She saw two men who appeared to be putting a black Honda Accord's front bumper back into place after it collided with a US-style pick-up truck.
A fired-up Ms Ivana took aim at the unnecessarily large size of the vehicle.
'What is with Aussies now thinking we need to drive this (pick up truck)?' Ms Ivana said in a TikTok[3] video.
Social media users agreed with Ms Ivana revealing one of the main reasons they disliked the vehicle was because of the impractical size.
One claimed Australia didn't have the infrastructure to accommodate the huge vehicles while others said it was not made to drive around the city.
Brigette Ivana watched the moment two men (pictured centre) who appeared to be passengers of a massive pick-up truck put the front bumper bar back onto a car after the pick-up had earlier damaged the sedan's exterior
Ms Ivana claimed the US-style pick-up truck had swiped the black Honda Accord.
'This, no joke, giant vehicle, sideswiped the car next to him and took the front bumper off,' Ms Ivana said.
The video shows two men dressed in black t-shirts and a pair of shorts attaching the front bumper back onto the Honda.
One man can be seen standing in front of the car as he works to put the bumper back into place.
Meanwhile another man can be seen squatting to the right of the sedan fitting the edge of the loose exterior back into the front of the vehicle.
Ms Ivana lambasted the size of US-styled pick-up as it dwarfed the much smaller car.
She then compared the sizes of the truck and the Honda sedan before she said: 'Are you f*****g kidding'.
Ms Ivana asks whether the pick-ups can be 'banned' and said 'we don't need vehicles this big'.
Hundreds of viewers commented on her post questioning why motorists are driving around in the vehicles.
'Australia just doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle cars like that… I don’t understand why they are needed?' one user wrote.
'If you NEED a vehicle this big, you can also afford to have a small 2000s era hatch for trips like this!!!,' another said.
'These cars are becoming a fashion show in the city for people who cant drive them.'
The video which was uploaded to TikTok on Monday sparked a furious debate online among motorists about the viability of driving pick-up trucks in Australia=
Others however defended motorists who drive the trucks saying the vehicles are just like other cars.
'Those vehicles are fine, people just need to learn how to drive them,' one user said.
'I put 68t 25m trucks through the city (sic). A Ram is nothing,' another said.
Experts have voiced their opposition to the growing popularity of large American style utes and trucks in Australia.
Almost 800 large pick ups were sold in Australia in August 2023 with American light utility truck manufacturer Ram selling almost 23,000 of it's vehicles since 2016 across Australia.
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