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My '96 Tacoma gets 22 mpg. Hauls everything I need to haul. I don't know how people can go without a truck. What do you do when you get a piece of furniture?
After years of various pick-up trucks, some being diesel, and one custom built International 4400 Toter to tow my 40' RV while carrying my Harley Ultra in a barn behind the cab; I'm now reduced to just owning two homes with one in Canada with a Buick Enclave there and one in Florida with a "used" beater 2008 Hyundai Entourage 7 passenger minivan and have to say I don't misss the trucks at all (well I do miss the Eaton/Fuller 10spd in the 4400) and much prefer the stupid beater minivan over the Enclave.
Oh; and anything I buy that is too big to carry in the CUV or M/van; I have delivered.
I'd like a truck, my car doesn't have enough ground clearance on some of the back roads here. I have the car for better gas mileage. A truck would be a second vehicle for me though, used only when needed. I think when I buy a truck it will be an antique, something made between the 1930's and 1950's. Something I can work on myself with basic tools.
It's nice to have a higher view of the road and traffic ahead, and it's a fact that death rates are lower in vehicles that are heavier and higher off the ground.
I can believe that. Doesn't mean you'll see me in a truck any time soon. Just not for me - I don't get the appeal to them and they take up too much space on the road, eat up too much gas, require too much upkeep, and the majority of people who drive them think they own the damn road. It's quite aggravating.
My '96 Tacoma gets 22 mpg. Hauls everything I need to haul. I don't know how people can go without a truck. What do you do when you get a piece of furniture?
My car gets 27 city. When I need to haul something - and this is not a frequent occurrence - I rent a truck.
And my car is a LOT more fun to drive than a truck, in my experience.
Not exactly an answer to the OP, but only in the US a truck is considered "cool", thus people who don't need one for work, still drive one. Anyone aware of such "phenomena" in any other country on earth?
Note: I am not putting this in the automotive forum because it's not about trucks themselves; rather, it's about the social constructs of real men driving trucks.
Real men don't care what people think about them based on what vehicle they drive...
Exactly! If you have to do things to prove you are a man, then you can't be much of a man.
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