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This is just social media and your news outlets of choice feeding you what you'd like to see.




No, it is also reality in the US.

In northern maine, the "Manly men" have a road pickup, with a giant cab and all the luxury features and a 7L engine, and an entirely separate "Work" truck that actually has normal work truck features like no infotainment and is easy to clean and is not a luxury vehicle.

They only ever drive the work truck into the muddy farm. They might go "Mudding" in their pavement princess and then take it through a drive through car wash.

Then in the winter, when they need to plow the snow, they have yet another truck, usually an old work truck, that they slap a plow on.

Trucks are a lifestyle brand.

They don't tow things other than once a year, and that thing is a giant RV for the yearly camp trip, because they don't actually like camping. They don't need to tow their Skiddoo in the winter because they just drive it all over the state from their back yard, which is great fun.

My dad bought an F350 for "work" that is full of all the luxury options of course, and is usually towing an oversized box trailer full of tools as a work space, but normal people that don't have free rent and have to work for a living just take the damn tools out of the back of the truck before doing the work. But it doesn't matter because that $80k status symbol is "owned" by his company and is treated as a depreciating asset for tax purposes, so he buys a brand new one every 5 years.

Ironically, he actually does tow multiple times a week, but 90% of his usage WOULD be covered by an electric truck.


No this is my personal experience from occasionally meeting some nonsense oversized car.



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