r/fuckcars / Not Just Bikes / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design

[quaawaa]

Not surprised that they can't even imagine a store that's close for suburbanites. Maybe it's not a real grocery store that has eggs and a full aisle of breakfast cereal but absolutely enough to buy eggs. Plop one of those Manhattan bodegas in a parking lot with some Exxon gas pumps and I bet that urbanists would cry about how it's a "filthy gas station" despite it's the exact same immigrant-run shop with overpriced food and a dubious kitchen area.

I just love how people who constantly talk about how they want to walk everywhere balk at the idea of walking FOUR blocks.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

I just love how people who constantly talk about how they want to walk everywhere balk at the idea of walking FOUR blocks.

Four blocks to a grocery or even convenience store? Might as well be a FOOD DESERT.

 

[MIU]

This all started because a suburbanite pointed out that they can walk four blocks to a grocery store:

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but that's not good enough because suburbs are supposed to be unwalkable:

>"Cities are supposed to be walkable!"
>Suddenly talks about bicycles


Urbanism's greatest issue is it's obsession with cycling. If you're going to make a "walkable city", focus on making a non-dogshit public transport system that is affordable and safe. Once that is figured out, you can then MAYBE add some bike paths. The Netherlands has cycling as a part of it's culture and national identity which is probably the bigger motivating factor for why we have so much bike infrastructure in here than whatever urbanists think (And I would still prefer if public transport finally got un-shittified here). There is no cycling culture in america and there will probably never be, focus on making public transport less of a niggerhell and then plenty of people who would otherwise drive will go take a train every once in a while.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Freddie deBoer says you shouldn't drive your kids to school.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Urbanism's greatest issue is it's obsession with cycling. If you're going to make a "walkable city", focus on making a non-dogshit public transport system that is affordable and safe. Once that is figured out, you can then MAYBE add some bike paths. The Netherlands has cycling as a part of it's culture and national identity which is probably the bigger motivating factor for why we have so much bike infrastructure in here than whatever urbanists think (And I would still prefer if public transport finally got un-shittified here). There is no cycling culture in america and there will probably never be, focus on making public transport less of a niggerhell and then plenty of people who would otherwise drive will go take a train every once in a while.

Plus I'm pretty sure that the Dutch aren't as rude when it comes to cycling, American cyclists play the victim on the roads, but will not hesitate to run down pedestrians and WILL plow through crowded plazas even when signs tell them not to.

 

[Gurney Halleck]

There is no cycling culture in america and there will probably never be, focus on making public transport less of a niggerhell and then plenty of people who would otherwise drive will go take a train every once in a while.

The biggest problem with urbanism in America is that they absolutely refuse to address any of the reasons why someone would want to be a carbrained surburbanite, and focus much of their time and energy trying to inconvenience them as much as possible. They're practically ideologically required to make their cities into open air homeless shelters and then wonder why people keep trying to get away from it, must be because of racism and car addiction!

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The biggest problem with urbanism in America

The biggest problem with urbanism in America is that we realize that the cities are the source of almost all of our nations problems.

 

[MIU]

The biggest problem with urbanism in America is that they absolutely refuse to address any of the reasons why someone would want to be a carbrained surburbanite, and focus much of their time and energy trying to inconvenience them as much as possible. They're practically ideologically required to make their cities into open air homeless shelters and then wonder why people keep trying to get away from it, must be because of racism and car addiction!

Granted it's also just because most modern cities are meaningless bughives that aren't actual centers of industry like a city ought to be. So the only people in them are gonna be those mentally ill enough to want to be there.

Also brehs, my drivers license came in, took my car for the first drive , really gotta get used to petrols though, after learning in a diesel these things are like driving with the sensitivity up

 

[Mikoyan]

Also in urbanist land, the TSA has invaded their beloved high speed trains, making them just as annoying as modern airports:

Amusingly I read this just as I was about to arrive at DC Union Station as part of a weeklong vacation. I looked around the Acela boarding area, but no x-ray machines to be seen. Well, I thought, maybe it's hidden and we'll see when I leave to go up North. Go into the station, look around again, then go to the not-so-fancy first class lounge. When ready for my not-next-gen Acela (thank god those things suck) we get shuffled right to the train, no security, no bag check, no nothing, just as usual. I also had a look around several actual Amtrak forums (who have been up in arms about the St. Louis station getting metal detectors, which is a local deal) and nothing.

So maybe they were trying something out. Or maybe they were doing a spot check the way that Amtrak repeatedly tells you can happen at any time, though it never seems to actually happen. Or perhaps this predditor was full of shit.

 

[dj0449674]

The Home Depot in Manhattan sucks. They moved to a larger location recently but as I've pointed out the square footage is reduced to compensate and stuff I've read about has a largely abbreviated merchandise mix for apartment dwellers. (I imagine the electrical/plumbing sections are also very different because of the "don't even THINK about touching the pipes without a dozen permits and a master tradesmen's certificate in plumbing" idea that NYC has going on).

They're all the same thing. I remember being disappointed when I visited downtown Houston's Randalls supermarket, because despite being an "urban" location that had a parking garage and a loft area where the Starbucks and other seating was, it was a small store. I've been in some tiny chain supermarkets that had already been operating for decades even when Carter was President, and while it wasn't that small...it was smaller than its suburban cousins (and this one wasn't that old).

Not surprised that they can't even imagine a store that's close for suburbanites. Maybe it's not a real grocery store that has eggs and a full aisle of breakfast cereal but absolutely enough to buy eggs. Plop one of those Manhattan bodegas in a parking lot with some Exxon gas pumps and I bet that urbanists would cry about how it's a "filthy gas station" despite it's the exact same immigrant-run shop with overpriced food and a dubious kitchen area.

HQ was an old home improvement store that you could actually drive through and use the bed of your truck like a shopping cart.

No ides why they went under.

 

[Mikoyan]

HQ was an old home improvement store that you could actually drive through and use the bed of your truck like a shopping cart.

No ides why they went under.

HQ was created by a conglomerate trying to get into retail. All their hardware assets got sold off after the 87 crash, and HQ ended up with Hechinger who's one of those weird ironic companies: They kind of invented the big box lumber yard-hardware combo but didn't think to take it far enough and got superceded in the market they invented by Home Depot and Lowe's.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Not surprised that they can't even imagine a store that's close for suburbanites. Maybe it's not a real grocery store that has eggs and a full aisle of breakfast cereal but absolutely enough to buy eggs. Plop one of those Manhattan bodegas in a parking lot with some Exxon gas pumps and I bet that urbanists would cry about how it's a "filthy gas station" despite it's the exact same immigrant-run shop with overpriced food and a dubious kitchen area.

A "Bodega" is a just a shitty version of a Kwik Star.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

HQ was created by a conglomerate trying to get into retail. All their hardware assets got sold off after the 87 crash, and HQ ended up with Hechinger who's one of those weird ironic companies: They kind of invented the big box lumber yard-hardware combo but didn't think to take it far enough and got superceded in the market they invented by Home Depot and Lowe's.

They also bought Builder's Square, a concept by Kmart that got some distance before they sold it, but by the time they declared bankruptcy in 1999 they had a fraction of the stores Home Depot or Lowe's did. Pity.

That being said, W.R. Grace (the chemical company) had its fingers in a lot of pies at the time, including being the initial driving force of making Applebee's a national chain.

Amusingly I read this just as I was about to arrive at DC Union Station as part of a weeklong vacation. I looked around the Acela boarding area, but no x-ray machines to be seen. Well, I thought, maybe it's hidden and we'll see when I leave to go up North. Go into the station, look around again, then go to the not-so-fancy first class lounge. When ready for my not-next-gen Acela (thank god those things suck) we get shuffled right to the train, no security, no bag check, no nothing, just as usual. I also had a look around several actual Amtrak forums (who have been up in arms about the St. Louis station getting metal detectors, which is a local deal) and nothing.

So maybe they were trying something out. Or maybe they were doing a spot check the way that Amtrak repeatedly tells you can happen at any time, though it never seems to actually happen. Or perhaps this predditor was full of shit.

Maybe it is like the TSA, your experience will vary depending on the airport. Some of them will basically screen your baggage and wave you through if you didn't put obvious contraband in your stuff, some of them will find an excuse to rifle through your stuff.

The biggest problem with urbanism in America is that they absolutely refuse to address any of the reasons why someone would want to be a carbrained surburbanite, and focus much of their time and energy trying to inconvenience them as much as possible. They're practically ideologically required to make their cities into open air homeless shelters and then wonder why people keep trying to get away from it, must be because of racism and car addiction!

I've noticed when it comes to urbanism it's very similar to other hobbies and industries, wherein leftists pretend to be an authority (or have an interest in) a hobby to get into something and subvert it from the inside. You saw it happen with video games, and it happens here too.

Obviously there's more than cyclist advocacy as they want to change the roads you drive on as well, that's why you cannot have main thoroughfares, and even the "parkway", a sub-highway with no driveways (not a "stroad") and a faster speed limit has to be attacked to make it more "pedestrian friendly". This is partly because they resent Robert Moses, who designed the first parkways, but cities with these types of roads have gotten changed and cucked to 35 mph for no real reason other than to appease the bicycle crowd. Examples include Allen Parkway in Houston, and Cleveland Memorial Parkway in Cleveland, which several years arbitrarily became 35 mph from 50 mph for reasons I can't fathom.

 

[quaawaa]

So the Chairman of Toyota wore a MAGA hat to Fuji Speedway to showcase his love for America and its cars:

Wątek '🇯🇵 Akio Toyoda goes full MAGA in star-spangled, BBQ-slathered, F-150-truckin’, NASCAR-styled charm offensive'

18 Lis 2025

Akio Toyoda hosts a NASCAR showcase at Fuji Speedway, highlighting American car culture as he dons a red "Make America Great Again" hat and Trump-Vance T-shirt in a not-so-subtle appeal to the U.S. ambassador amid trade tensions and a new $10 billion investment in Toyota’s U.S. operations. (HANS GREIMEL/AUTOMOTIVE NEWS)

By Hans Greimel
November 16, 2025, 04:32 PM

OYAMA, Japan — With a toothy grin, “Make America Great Again” hat and Trump-Vance T-shirt, Akio Toyoda hosted a star-spangled, barbecued, all-American, NASCAR spectacle at Fuji Speedway in a new charm...

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Some highlights:

Toyota plans to import American-made Toyota cars into Japan, including pickup trucks and SUVs like the Tundra and Sequoia:

At the time, the White House also said Toyota would market and sell made-in-America cars to Japan.

“Plans to export its U.S.-made vehicles to Japan and open its distribution platform in Japan to U.S. automakers, as a result of Japan’s commitment to accept for sale in Japan U.S. manufactured and U.S. safety-certified vehicles without additional testing,” the statement said.

Toyota has since confirmed it is looking at doing just that.

At Fuji Speedway, Toyota and local importers displayed American vehicles in front of the main grandstand, including the Ford Bronco and a range of U.S.-built Toyotas.

Among the Toyotas were the Camry sedan made at Toyota’s Georgetown, Ky., plant and the Highlander crossover and Tundra pickup. Toyota is evaluating how it might export Camrys from Georgetown to Japan, said Kerry Creech, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky.

Creech was on hand to pitch Toyota’s U.S. products to the Japanese public, as was Frank Voss, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, where the Sequoia SUV and Tundra pickup are assembled.

Toyota’s Georgetown plant doesn’t have orders yet to start making right-hand-drive Camrys for shipment to Japan, Creech said. But the company has exported right-hand-drive vehicles before and can retool the lines in rather short order, in less than six months, he said.

A Japanese racing driver says that he'd love American cars on the streets of Japan:

Japanese racing veteran Kobayashi, who has competed in Formula One and NASCAR, said he would personally welcome more American cars on Japanese roads.

“I’m racing United States, and there’s a lot of great cars in the United States, so I’m very happy to have cars from United States,” Kobayashi said. “For example, we have the Tundra. We don’t have it in Japan, but we might have it in the future. That’s great news.”

A Japanese racing series wants to bring in Americans:

The endurance race series, known as Super Taikyu, also created a new “ST-USA Class” to welcome teams with American-made race cars, as a gesture to American car culture.

Fans also love American car culture:

Food stalls featured a “U.S. meat menu” with such delectables as a “California grill BBQ burger,” a 1-pound steak and chili-cheese long fries. A North Carolina-born singer belted out the U.S. national anthem. And the throngs of Japanese race fans daintily fluttered American flags.

The Chairman of Toyota drove an F-150 around the track:

Before the NASCAR demo drive around Fuji’s twisting turns, the company’s top car guy and the Trump-appointed U.S. ambassador climbed aboard a massive double-cab Ford F-150, with Toyoda behind the wheel, Glass riding shotgun and the diplomat’s wife in the back.

Toyoda told him not to worry. “I’m a very good driver,” he quipped.

Toyoda then waved out the window and gunned it, leading the pack of stock cars down Fuji’s straight with the thunder of their V-8 engines echoing against the slopes of Mount Fuji.

The weebs of /r/fuckcars are furious that the Japanese love American cars and car culture:




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[Midwit]

Chairman of Toyota wore a MAGA hat to Fuji Speedway to showcase his love for America and its cars

This is the same guy who got the company to manufacture a performance model of a Century and uses it as his personal car, he's not exactly fuckcars material.

Toyota plans to import American-made Toyota cars into Japan, including pickup trucks and SUVs like the Tundra and Sequoia:

I know there's at least one Tundra kicking about in England, so there is some latent demand there.

 

[Mikoyan]

Maybe it is like the TSA, your experience will vary depending on the airport. Some of them will basically screen your baggage and wave you through if you didn't put obvious contraband in your stuff, some of them will find an excuse to rifle through your stuff.

This is a good theory but take it from me, who has this self-abusive compulsion to use Amtrak extensively: They don't. The most they usually have is at the VERY biggest stations they'll have sniffer dogs running around the place for ???. Solving the problem of screening everything would be enormous: Just board at some little platform-and-a-building station two stops down the line and what are they going to do?

Profiling is also difficult because of the general intense sketchiness and/or mental illness of especially the long distance coach passengers. Maybe this guy did something so stupid he got one-off tossed but that'd be really unusual.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Funny video of a bicyclist faggot vs a rainstorm (Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald playing)

https://files.catbox.moe/h4poek.mp4

 

[quaawaa]

Funny video of a bicyclist faggot vs a rainstorm (Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald playing)

https://files.catbox.moe/h4poek.mp4

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[Xarpho's Return]

Maybe this guy did something so stupid he got one-off tossed but that'd be really unusual.

I'd believe it.

The weebs of /r/fuckcars are furious that the Japanese love American cars and car culture:

I'm not sure why they think "car culture" is a uniquely American thing. Anyone who can afford it in "enlightened" countries will buy one if they can afford it, from the Japanese and European down to the third-worlders.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Profiling is also difficult because of the general intense sketchiness and/or mental illness of especially the long distance coach passengers. Maybe this guy did something so stupid he got one-off tossed but that'd be really unusual.

Trains are just busses on rails, I swear.