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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by somebodyfromnc
What do you mean by this? Trucks only continue to get more capable, while also becoming more efficient at the same time.
Modern 1/2 ton pickups ride as nicely as sedans.
I agree, my F150 handles better than my wife's CUV. Even with a 5.0 V8 and 385 HP I get 16 mpg regularly, as much as 21 on the highway, and with a 36 gallon tank that's as much as 700 miles on a tank.
Because I can't pull a trailer with a Prius. I've got about 10,000 trailer miles on my truck, which has a little over 37,000 miles on it. Owning a truck is part of living in Alaska. Almost everyone on my street has one.
Why do people buy tiny convertibles with half their body hanging out? Why people buy a Juke? Some even bought the Aztec. Why?
If you don't know why people buy convertibles, especially those that come off the showroom floor track ready, you're probably driving a truck - or an SUV.
They're really nice to either have or at least have access to. Back when I was living in the same town as my parents it was a lot easier. Dad had an old pickup used for hauling a fifth-wheel, boat, and luxury of luxuries, a large flat-bed car trailer. He daily drove other vehicles most of the time but we always had either Suburbans or after the acquisition of the fifth-wheel a pickup. Now that I'm two hours away with typical traffic it's a bit far. I do things like make multiple trips or use the hourly rentals from Home Depot. I can't justify owning one as I only want one a handful of times a year. When I moved I took the truck and left my car at my dad's place for a couple weeks while doing things like getting furniture. Complete nightmare finding parking for it. They're just not suitable in most urban environments, which is why you see so few of them there.
I agree, my F150 handles better than my wife's CUV. Even with a 5.0 V8 and 385 HP I get 16 mpg regularly, as much as 21 on the highway, and with a 36 gallon tank that's as much as 700 miles on a tank.
Even so, you're still paying $100 (or significantly more) with every fill-up.
Because I can't pull a trailer with a Prius. I've got about 10,000 trailer miles on my truck, which has a little over 37,000 miles on it. Owning a truck is part of living in Alaska. Almost everyone on my street has one.
That's not even remotely true.
There are many of us who live our daily lives without a truck and thrive very nicely, thank you very much.
Even so, you're still paying $100 (or significantly more) with every fill-up.
This. My probable-future-SIL, a very stable and thoughtful guy, bought a crew-cab Ram with all the extras... more or less because he couldn't imagine buying anything else. Even though he needed his dad's help with it financially. Even though his biggest load is one adult and his 2yo daughter.
Even with Army furlough pay and a pretty good job, he has to leave it parked 3 days a week and ride an old motorcycle because he can't afford to put $120 in diesel in it often enough.
Pickups have their place, certainly. But it's not really in every single's or average family's driveway. Especially not when you can go rent one for the cost of half a tank of fuel when you need to carry 47 flagpoles or whatever.
So you can mooch off your work or your friends, or you have the disposible income to rent one.
Not everyone is so privileged or willing to be reliant on the goodwill of other people who made the wise decision to buy a truck.
If a person doesn't need the size and utility of a truck, have the space to park a truck or the money to afford the expense of owning a truck, then wouldn't the wise decision be not to buy a truck?
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