I think, at least in Belgium, emptying tires is actually not a punishable offense, as long as you don't damage the tires. It's something activists have been doing for a while with these types of cars.

Criminal damage now a lentil in a valve cap

https://tyreextinguishers.com/

Knob heads. Too many of them. Recently I also noticed a trend of craftsmen like roofers driving F150s and modded Amaroks here in Germany. Before, these guys would drive utility vans with 'don't take my diesel' stickers

But who is going to buy one?

Assholes with a fragile ego.

People will buy them and bitch and moan to their politicians the streets don't accommodate their over sized truck thats is spotless clean with an empty bed.

assholes will

and as such, they should be treated like assholes. treat their vehicle like assholes. treat them like assholes. they are endangering you, they are affecting your life, make sure you affect theirs as well and try to guide them towards not being an asshole by showing them consequences for their actions

As an American, nobody has to buy them at first. "Light trucks" like pickups and SUVs weren't always big in the US, but because they were more profitable, aggressive advertising campaigns turned SUVs from being something mocked for being unsafe, unwieldy, and inefficient into being what nearly everyone drives. I hate it. Infrastructure has shifted to accommodate them to the detriment of everyone else. Don't let it happen to you. The last several years the top 5 best selling vehicles in the US have been pickups. Not because anyone needs them, but because advertising has turned them into a cultural staple, despite their inconvenience.

They won't give a single shit about anyone else, they finally are the big hard man and no one can push them about. Take that, Scott Murphy! Who's pushing me into dog poo now!

All these points don't seem to stop people from buying ever bigger cars (Edit: at least in the part of Germany where I live). Most of my neighbours park in the street now, because their cars don't fit in the garages built in the 60s and 70s anymore or one car takes up the parking spots designed for two cars in front of their house. A neighbour recently asked me if I could park closer to the wall in our shared underground parking garage, because he has trouble getting into his car when I park in the middle of my spot. It wasn't a problem before he and the neighbours on his other side bought new cars.

Isn't that already handled by fuel taxes?

Excluding the taste thing, all of the other points apply to the US too. They're too big, costly, inefficient, but fucking morons drive them daily, despite having zero need for a big truck.