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Originally Posted by jplinville
My family used to use that rant with me over the trucks and SUVs that I currently or formerly owned. They couldn't argue with me after they started calling and asking to use my vehicles, or buying them from me when I was ready for something new.
If you live or commute in a big city, a small car is ideal for you. With the miles we put on vehicles in a year as a family unit, a large vehicle is in order. I may go 10 months without towing anything, then have to tow 3-4 times a week for a few months. I may go months without hauling anything in the back of my trucks, then something happens and I'm hauling more than Fred Sanford.
Just because you don't see people utilizing their vehicles for what they were designed for, doesn't mean that they don't...it just means they don't when you're looking.
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JP,
You obviously are justified in driving such a vehicle. BELIEVE ME! Where I'm at, Big, Four Door, Long Bed, Dually, One Tons are a status symbol for MOST people that drive them.
Some of the people that have them, tow an RV on vacation or pull a cattle or horse trailer. Because of these people who need them, there are LOTS of people that think they look cool in them.
Where I work as we speak there are several hundred vehicles in the parking lot. I would venture to say that somewhere between a third and half of them are pickups, maybe even more than half. Of those pickups, I'm sure that more than 3/4 of them are like I describe. Of THOSE, I would be willing to bet that you won't find a single scratch in the bed, or any evidence that there has ever been anything in the receiver hitch.
As I said originally, there are people that need them, but down here MOST of them are nothing but cowboy status symbols for the folks with hats but no cattle.