Pick-up trucks, popular in the UK? (buy, bankruptcy, luxury)
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No, that truck doesn't exist here. Toyota trucks are not popular in the states. It's either Ford, Dodge or Chevy trucks.
Well, maybe in Kentucky, but in the rest of the US Toyota pickups have been outselling Dodge for years and their sale numbers are currently beating on the door of the other two. But that's not important.
"Hilux" was a name used in the US by Toyota for their pickups between 1970 and 1976, and they were pretty junky. That's one reason they dropped the use of that name here, I suppose. Interesting to see the name was continued world-wide.
The two reason pickups haven't been too popular in the UK is the rain, imo, and because the state of Texas needed so many they created an artificial shortage.
Btw, US/Canadian makes are imported with wrong-side drive [RHD] for those who can't adapt to the normal, standard, world-wide traffic pattern. </smugness> Actually the Metropolitan Police in London have a few Ford F-250's with special use bodies I've seen. Probably acquired through our Canadian cousins, I would suppose.
Really appreciated that "White van man" link. Explained a lot of what I saw during holidays in London.
Well, maybe in Kentucky, but in the rest of the US Toyota pickups have been outselling Dodge for years and their sale numbers are currently beating on the door of the other two.
Yeah, I'm quite sure there are plenty of Tacomas in Kentucky, as I bought mine from my brother in Kentucky, when he bought a new one. He works for Toyota, and is based at their largest North American plant in Kentucky. I think I'm pretty safe in saying, he isn't the only one in Kentucky with a Tacoma.
Well, i'm standing on a corner at the Marble Arch Station
And, such a fine sight to see
It's a girl my lord
In a flat bed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me.
Oh- my favourite lines from a song- meaning in the original version!
How about 24 hours from Tulse Hill?
I did drive a F150 in Texas, but they are as much a fashion statement as anything else in the city.
Pretty pointless most of the time. It was easier to load very big items such as our BBQ into our 'mini' van with sliding side doors than it was to lug anything heavy up onto the bed of the truck.
theres alot of pick ups in Ireland but then again most of Ireland consists of Country side and rural areas
They are also popular in rural Canada. See this one whose driver unwittingly took out a traffic signal and then unconcernedly
parked it outside a country pub in British Columbia. Talk about a "happy hour".
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