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Reasons I drive a F-150 pickup and a medium size SUV (Ford Explorer).
1: I am a long bodied, 6'2" older male. The cars they build today, have such seats and roofs, to help the fuel efficiency, I simply cannot even sit in one, and I am too old to have to go through the contortions I have to do to even get into a modern car. My SUV and pickup, are easy to enter and exit.
2: They are considered the most dangerous cars on the road according to a lot of people. Not dangerous to those driving them, but dangerous to someone that runs into them. For the people that drive them, they are the safest vehicle on the road. In addition when someone sees they are about to run into a big pickup or SUV, they do everything they can, to avoid an accident.
3: Comes snow conditions, and I have never been stuck. We put on studded snow tires in the winter, and with 4X4 advanced system drive, just dial in road conditions and you are going to go through snow. Even if they put Chain Law into effect, where they close the road to anyone without tire chains installed, 4X4 and studded snow tires, is rated the same as chains and you do not have to put on chains even in the worst conditions.
4: Durability. They are bigger, tougher, and need far less maintenance that cars without the beefed up systems, engines, etc. that are standard with trucks. They are more heavy duty, and can last a lot longer than cars, with less spent on maintaining them.
I think that's one of the most stupid buys ever, just to buy a truck when you are never going to haul or tow with it. But if you use the flatbed for the deer you just killed, that's ok. If you're just buying a Ford F150 Platinum 4x4 to look good and not use it, I guess that's your style but man is that a waste of @#$%
So why else would you have a truck if you don't use it for the reasons stated?
Back when I didn't know much about trucks, I was really shocked that the Ford F150 was America's best selling vehicle! Is that because many people live in situations like rural America [e.g. KY] where it's better to have a 4x4 truck?
Who cares what someone else buys with their own money?
Oh, I had to move a jammed packed 10 x 25 storage to a 12 x 50 storage and I packed up my 2016 Legend 6x15 TA ALuminum Trailer up to the max. But the trailer only weighed a total of 3150 lbs or so, but my 2005 tow package Dodge Grand Caravan SXT weighed 6120 lbs or so. So I was over 8600 GCVW and yet my minivan hauled with ease, but I drove it in [3].
Yeah, and I had this weighed at a Pilot Truck Certified Stop Scale.
I think that's one of the most stupid buys ever, just to buy a truck when you are never going to haul or tow with it. But if you use the flatbed for the deer you just killed, that's ok. If you're just buying a Ford F150 Platinum 4x4 to look good and not use it, I guess that's your style but man is that a waste of @#$%
So why else would you have a truck if you don't use it for the reasons stated?
Back when I didn't know much about trucks, I was really shocked that the Ford F150 was America's best selling vehicle! Is that because many people live in situations like rural America [e.g. KY] where it's better to have a 4x4 truck?
The whole line about F-series Ford trucks being the "best-selling trucks in the world" is BS. General Motors sells more trucks than Ford, but they don't label them all the same. If every GM truck sold was a Silverado, the Silverado would be the best-selling truck in the world.
That said, I really don't care what you (or anyone else) drives. Driving a pickup truck is no more stupid than driving a high-end Mercedes or Lexus or Porsche. To each his own.
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I not a truck person but I won't judge people that do. Why do I mostly drive alone in a 5 seater car when I could drive a 2 seater more fuel efficient car? As for fuel economy... someone who drives a large truck but has a 10 mile round trip commute to work uses less fuel than someone who drives a Prius 50 miles round trip to work.
The whole line about F-series Ford trucks being the "best-selling trucks in the world" is BS. General Motors sells more trucks than Ford, but they don't label them all the same. If every GM truck sold was a Silverado, the Silverado would be the best-selling truck in the world.
That said, I really don't care what you (or anyone else) drives. Driving a pickup truck is no more stupid than driving a high-end Mercedes or Lexus or Porsche. To each his own.
Under a model name F150 Ford is the best selling. But you are correct by saying that if you combine Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra into one model they would exceed the Ford. However, there has been great debate if GM did away with the Sierra would those sales go toward Silverado? So if they did close GMC would Silverado pick up all those sales? Honestly, I don't think GM will do away with GMC since trucks are BIG money makers and a lot of those GMC dealers used to be Pontiac Buick and GM already took Pontiac from them.
Just my thoughts.
As for driving a truck; I say drive what you want, if someone does not like it, ignore them. That's what I do and have done. I have had people condemn me for driving a Vettes, Hummers, and Trucks. Someday if I ever get the extra time, I might actually sit back and see if I really care what they thought.
I was just thinking, we do use the full size truck at the farm but I'm getting older and don't go down there as much. It might make sense to just leave the big truck at the farm.
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