"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Look around you, Jimmy. There is absolutely, positively no way in hell
that the enormous increase in truck ownership over the past 30 years is
due to actual need.

-Most don't even have a hitch on them. They tow nothing.

-There've been surveys indicating that the average SUV owner carries 1-2
passengers most of the time, and never more than 4.

-We have not seen a 10-fold increase in the number of construction workers
and trades people. Furthermore, I have housing developments in progress
near me. I see more of the workers arriving in cars, not trucks. You don't
need a truck to haul 2 hammers, a tool belt, and a cordless drill. They're
smart enough to figure this out, and apparently, they see no need to drive
a pickup because someone else does. So much for "construction sites", as
you mentioned. Too bad soccer moms can't figure this out.

You keep coming back to people who actually need them. Do you know what
the typical female truck buyer gives as a reason?


I do. .... (this is really getting comical) ... maybe not "typical" ....
but..

Mrs.E used to have a Lincoln Navigator. She liked it because it had some
room for her stuff, grandkids and the fact that she felt "safe" in such a
large vehicle.

This spring she traded it in and got one of those new Lincoln pickup trucks
(I forget what you call them). It looks just like a Navigator from the
front, but with a pickup bed in the back. (It's basically a dolled up Ford
F-150)

She loves this now, because it still seats 5 people, but she can easily haul
around her horse saddles, bales of hay, shopping conquests, boat stuff,
flowers, pots, trees and other bulky, large items that she used to have to
wait for me to pick up for her.

RCE