Comment by NamTaf
7 years ago
Those are not made out of this apparently super-hard steel. This thing's sales pitch sounds more like a tank than a car.
But yes, as sibling replies have pointed out, I was more aghast as the fact that the US does not give one iota of fuck about pedestrian safety, apparently. Here, you can (theoretically, granted) get fined for attaching a bullbar that compromises the pedestrian safety, for example by changing how a pedestrian bends when impacted by the front of the car and in doing so increasing the risk of spinal or other injury to the pedestrian.
My comment was largely a critique of the differing approaches to road safety.
So would this make the truck unsellable in other countries?
I mean I don't have proof positive that it doesn't meet those requirements, but if it doesn't do so then yes, at least here in AU if it doesn't meet those requirements then you simply cannot register them and therefore they're not road legal.
You could technically still buy one, just as you can a non-road-legal track car, but that's it.
I'm not sure that this would have big market outside USA regardless.