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Look bud, you implied that was the longest a person could buy where you are, and there is nothing stopping you from buying what I posted. The picture we are discussing, that 6 door monstrosity, is built on a commercial chassis, not light truck. If it is real, and in alberta, the "car" insurance companies won't insure him, I ran into that when I used to have a GMC 3500 flat deck but for personal use.
Tone it down, "bud".
If it wasn't clear from the start, pick ups are light vehicles in my country, which was my starting point.
The longest vehicle, under 3500kg, thus retaining the light category and still built around a load bearing chassis is the van I showed. Emphasis on "van".
You showed a freight truck, which is a heavy cargo vehicle, not a touring one, like that monstrosity appears to have been built to pass as.
Something like that, here, considering its sheer size alone, would be classified as a heavy vehicle and thus pushed into the same group has freight trucks, but it would still be commercially and coloquially designated has a pick up. Insurance wise, I don't have the slightest idea how it happens but it would have to be insured in order to able to use public roads. Probably it would boild down to a matter of numbers to be paid. What would surely face, would be serious constraints and impediments to freely circulate, again, from its sheer stupid size and lenght.
F150s are being pushed into the market recently but the pick ups are too large for many roads, with disastrous results. That aberration would easily get stuck here.
Disingenuous fuck, just making with the excuses now.