Happy 4th of July to US oppos

"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars) 07/04/2014 at 09:48 • Filed to: None

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Keep building awesome cars so that we can keep importing them to the cold and dark, currently temporarily warm and sunny Northern Europe. The video is from 2012 Big Wheels event in Pieksämäki, Finland. And yes huge 'Murican trucks are a thing here.

Cé hé sin > KnowsAboutCars 07/04/2014 at 10:14

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Why are Finns so keen on American cars and are they still importing them? I was in Scandinavia last year and there was an invasion of American Finnbiler that were trundling around everywhere as part of some event or other. You see Yank Tanks in Norway and Sweden too but they all seem to be old.

Driving around in an American truck that you can't use commercially does seem to be a rather unusual hobby.

KnowsAboutCars > Cé hé sin 07/04/2014 at 11:15

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Pretty much the whole northern Europe is into American cars. Sweden, Finland and Norway are pretty similar in terms of US-cars while Icelandic people seem to like newer SUV's and lifted Ford Econolines. I'm not sure about Denmark. The whole Finnish car culture pretty much started from American cars in the late 60's-early 70's. I think the first Finnish custom car was built as early as in the 50's.

The semi trucks aren't that popular and some of them are actually used to haul cargo around. We are still importing cars from USA. There are even multiple companies dedicated to importing cars from there. Most of the imports are either old project cars that get restored or modified here or newer sports cars, pickup trucks, H2's and Escalades.

Also Estonians seem to like newer US imports. I sometimes see Lincoln Navigators with Estonian plates around the city. I've even seen a Ford Raptor here with Estonian plates!

Cé hé sin > KnowsAboutCars 07/04/2014 at 11:41

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I'm surprised that Finns can use front engined trucks commercially - it's not that they're illegal in the EU or anything but they're a couple of metres too long to pull a standard trailer.

I was in Iceland a couple of years ago and there were quite a number of American pickups there, a strange choice given Icelandic fuel prices! I think it's just a kind of "mine's bigger than yours" kind of thing.

KnowsAboutCars > Cé hé sin 07/04/2014 at 12:12

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I don't think the front engined ones are used commercially. I've seen long nose Scania's in use but they are shorter. Some of those trucks are also available for rent for use in different events so they aren't complete waste of money.

Cé hé sin > KnowsAboutCars 07/04/2014 at 14:15

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Oh yes, these ones. They're not made any more as there was no viable market.