I don’t know… I like trucks, but the truck community seems to hate on everyone else… I live in an area where pick up trucks are HUGE, and they are all lifted with puny wheels which I despise, but I get so much hate from truck drivers… They just seem to hate on my car so much and anything that isn’t a truck… My best friend’s roomate is a huge truck guy, and he hates on imports all the time which can be sort of hurtful when I built my car myself, but they are practical here even though most never see off road or haul things
Honestly, as an American, a lot of us find it obnoxious. It’s fine when they’re actually used for hauling and et cetera (my mom has a Tacoma that we get a lot of use out of and my dad needs one for work), but most people get them as a power symbol. I kid you not, on my campus, there are guys with big ass, lifted trucks that go running around with a full sized American or Confederate flag flying from their pick-up bed.
I think you should watch regular car reviews thoroughly and you may just get your answer
Well, in the northern US and canada, we like to have 4wd in winter, and pickups are tough, reliable, and inexpensive. I have a friend who’s building a turbocharged Mazda B2200, my dad has always had a pickup, my brother has a 1953 chevy. We rarely use them like pickups, but they’re fun to have around.
No seriously, Mr. Regular hit the nail on the head with this one.
I do understand why would you want one of these smaller ones (i had a supermoto so it would be nice to move it to the track with it but i had a van for that). But the big ones. Why a normal person would need such a thing. Its just weird becouse i hardly see big trucks becouse here in Finland if you need a move or tow stuff you just get some german diesel estate with big engine but you get the everyday luxory at the same time.
Essentially, Americans like “one car to rule them all”, we like one vehicle to fulfill all of our needs. That includes daily driving(not a problem because gas is so cheap here, especially in Texas where 1.99$ a gallon is not uncommon, equivalent in London would be 5.79 a gallon), hauling kids(nice and big cabs), handling diverse weather conditions, we like road trips(nothing hauls like a 5.0+ V8, plenty of space, new models are extremely comfortable and easy to drive), off roading(due to low taxes overall, speeding tickets sort of pick up the slack, but public land for off roading is everywhere so that is the preferred auto hobby), hauling large amounts of equipment like groceries. Also, roads here were designed for vehicles from the start, so the problem of skinny roads doesn’t exist that much, even downtown in major cites. Also they’re built like bricks, virtually indestructible, easy to work on and older models are very cheap to purchase and maintain. The big lifted truck thing? Great for off road use, it’s just “their thing”, like any other auto culture.
I come from a farming town in midwest America and farmers use theirs for hay or equipment. I’m not a farmer and I have a beater Chevrolet 1500, I chop wood to heat our house all winter and I stuff that bed full of wood. Besides its just fun to drive and not give a damn about it getting dirty or scratched.
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I don’t know… I like trucks, but the truck community seems to hate on everyone else… I live in an area where pick up trucks are HUGE, and they are all lifted with puny wheels which I despise, but I get so much hate from truck drivers… They just seem to hate on my car so much and anything that isn’t a truck… My best friend’s roomate is a huge truck guy, and he hates on imports all the time which can be sort of hurtful when I built my car myself, but they are practical here even though most never see off road or haul things
Honestly, as an American, a lot of us find it obnoxious. It’s fine when they’re actually used for hauling and et cetera (my mom has a Tacoma that we get a lot of use out of and my dad needs one for work), but most people get them as a power symbol. I kid you not, on my campus, there are guys with big ass, lifted trucks that go running around with a full sized American or Confederate flag flying from their pick-up bed.
I think you should watch regular car reviews thoroughly and you may just get your answer
Well, in the northern US and canada, we like to have 4wd in winter, and pickups are tough, reliable, and inexpensive. I have a friend who’s building a turbocharged Mazda B2200, my dad has always had a pickup, my brother has a 1953 chevy. We rarely use them like pickups, but they’re fun to have around.
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No seriously, Mr. Regular hit the nail on the head with this one.
I do understand why would you want one of these smaller ones (i had a supermoto so it would be nice to move it to the track with it but i had a van for that). But the big ones. Why a normal person would need such a thing. Its just weird becouse i hardly see big trucks becouse here in Finland if you need a move or tow stuff you just get some german diesel estate with big engine but you get the everyday luxory at the same time.
Essentially, Americans like “one car to rule them all”, we like one vehicle to fulfill all of our needs. That includes daily driving(not a problem because gas is so cheap here, especially in Texas where 1.99$ a gallon is not uncommon, equivalent in London would be 5.79 a gallon), hauling kids(nice and big cabs), handling diverse weather conditions, we like road trips(nothing hauls like a 5.0+ V8, plenty of space, new models are extremely comfortable and easy to drive), off roading(due to low taxes overall, speeding tickets sort of pick up the slack, but public land for off roading is everywhere so that is the preferred auto hobby), hauling large amounts of equipment like groceries. Also, roads here were designed for vehicles from the start, so the problem of skinny roads doesn’t exist that much, even downtown in major cites. Also they’re built like bricks, virtually indestructible, easy to work on and older models are very cheap to purchase and maintain. The big lifted truck thing? Great for off road use, it’s just “their thing”, like any other auto culture.
I come from a farming town in midwest America and farmers use theirs for hay or equipment. I’m not a farmer and I have a beater Chevrolet 1500, I chop wood to heat our house all winter and I stuff that bed full of wood. Besides its just fun to drive and not give a damn about it getting dirty or scratched.
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