The Ugly Canada Thread

[lio45]

Originally Posted by milomilo

While they aren't exactly efficient, large vehicles, especially pickups are very useful in day to day life. It's a lot easier to get a couch off kijiji when you have a vehicle capable of doing it. They're also great for camping, mountain biking, ski trips etc. So even though that health plan advisor isn't using it for work it still may be useful on occasion at least.

Depends also how much they drive, and whether or not they bought the vehicles used and are maintaining them well and keeping them for a long time. It takes a lot of driving pollution to make up for the production of one extra new vehicle.

All my vehicles have always been bought used, a few years old at the very least but usually more than that (mostly because I'm a cheapskate and I dislike the idea of owning anything that doesn't increase in value with the passage of time, like real estate and vehicles that are already old enough... but it's also more environmentally friendly).

My current fullsize pickup, which I've had for nearly ten years now, was bought when it was already old, so if during those ten years you've bought a couple Yarises brand new, I've been a greener motorist than you...

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by milomilo

While they aren't exactly efficient, large vehicles, especially pickups are very useful in day to day life. It's a lot easier to get a couch off kijiji when you have a vehicle capable of doing it. They're also great for camping, mountain biking, ski trips etc. So even though that health plan advisor isn't using it for work it still may be useful on occasion at least.

Then leave the truck at home for those things like one of my co-workers does and drive a car during the day. I know they have more than one vehicle too.

[MolsonExport]

Pickup trucks and gigantic troop movers like those Suburbans, Hummers, etc. are a completely North American (Canada/US) phenomenon. Outside of this continent (with its urbanscapes designed first and foremost for vehicles), tradespeople aside, very, very, very few people use them for everyday driving. Only here in North America would a pickup truck be a status symbol; a badge of honor or "manhood".

[niwell]

If you are in suburban Calgary (or Edmonton, or Toronto, or Montreal etc.) driving one of those massive vehicles isn't too bad but I really can't imagine doing it in the city. Parking would be a giant nightmare in my area which is predominantly street parking, and on a major street you would have be hyper aware of giving enough room for bikes on your right. Getting enough room to turn right at an intersection would be fun too given the level of pedestrian activity.

I drove a bunch of full size SUVs in northern Ontario as we did have to go to some relatively remote dirt road only type places. But even in central Tbay and Sudbury they were kind of annoying.

[eemy]

My work has a number of full crew cab trucks with an 8' box and they are a nightmare, even in suburban areas, primarily due to the long wheelbase which is around 16-17 feet. Streets are generally okay, but parking lots feel a lot tighter in a vehicle like that.

[niwell]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Pickup trucks and gigantic troop movers like those Suburbans, Hummers, etc. are a completely North American (Canada/US) phenomenon. Outside of this continent (with its urbanscapes designed first and foremost for vehicles), tradespeople aside, very, very, very few people use them for everyday driving. Only here in North America would a pickup truck be a status symbol; a badge of honor or "manhood".

In South Africa they LOVE their pickup trucks and SUVs, mostly for going camping and leaving the city. They even have an Afrikaans term for pickups (bakkies). The difference is they tend to be on the smaller end and you rarely see the huge vehicles we do here.

Although there apparently are some North American style ones... http://www.wheels24.co.za/NewModels/Ram-bakkies-Real-muscle-trucks-you-can-buy-in-SA-20140815

I think Australia is similar. In both places gas prices probably play a factor in this.

[franktko]

So many pages of trucks... Clockzilla!!! Where are you????

[HomeInMyShoes]

Anything but trucks...

I give everyone...The Minecraft House in Regina, SK.

Just look at the existing neighborhood and then look at how awkward this thing is. Try wandering around the neighborhood and look at it from other angles, like across the empty playground lot.

Usonia did some great stuff, but there were a few unbelievably ugly contextual misses. I liked some of what they did and hated others. There wasn't much middle ground when it came to if their work fit well or not. It seemed like giving them a corner lot was just asking for something heinous. I'm not sure if the Minecraft House is really ugly, but it is certainly awkard, the breakup of the faces is unbalanced and clumsy. Its just a compositional mess. Mondrian would be appalled.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by franktko

So many pages of trucks... Clockzilla!!! Where are you????

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

I had no idea she had 2 ugly sisters by the same company.
posted on : http://www.psa.ca


and
posted on: http://christianlanglois.com

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Pickup trucks and gigantic troop movers like those Suburbans, Hummers, etc. are a completely North American (Canada/US) phenomenon. Outside of this continent (with its urbanscapes designed first and foremost for vehicles), tradespeople aside, very, very, very few people use them for everyday driving. Only here in North America would a pickup truck be a status symbol; a badge of honor or "manhood".

Actually, while full sized pick ups are rare here in Japan, I have seen a good number of Hummers (always driven by douche looking guys). Given how narrow many of the streets and parking lots are here, it makes the status symbol of owning a Hummer that much more hilarious and desperate (for attention) looking. When I see them all I can think is, "What a fucking retard."

[MolsonExport]

Scientific "Proof" that Americans are Completely Addicted to Trucks

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I had no idea she had 2 ugly sisters by the same company.
posted on : http://www.psa.ca


and
posted on: http://christianlanglois.com

You forgot a few more:

Brossard



Longueuil



Manoir Plaza Montreal

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Scientific "Proof" that Americans are Completely Addicted to Trucks

Further proof that unless there is an economic disincentive to polluting the environment with greenhouse gases people will continue to do so unchecked.

[O-tacular]

[HomeInMyShoes]

But who is a worthy opponent for Horlagica?

Landamarkathan (Landmark Place in Hamilton)? King Radisson (Winnipeg)? Roomzilla (St. John's)?

[franktko]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Excellent stuff

[MolsonExport]

far more terrifying and realistically, more damaging to our senses, than the Godzilla depicted in the movies.

[eemy]

I wonder why clocks on buildings are so prevalent in Quebec? Did the watch never make its way there? Perhaps they don't want to ruin a smooth pant line with a cellphone in their pocket?

[lio45]

You guys don't have clocks on buildings that are stylistically supposed to be drawing a lot of their inspiration from the architecture of an era when (normal, tasteful) big buildings often had (and still have, in the case of all the ones still standing) clocks?

An example from my neck of the woods in Quebec (Coaticook) :
That kind of building in Ontario wouldn't have a clock on it?