" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS 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.

Proof?

My mistake: Not just "no hitch". Not even a towing bar with an opening into
which to put the hitch. They tow nothing. Open your eyes. You'll see it too.


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

So? What is your point? How many do you carry in your pickup truck
most of the time? (I think you said you were divorced, so I would guess
the answer to be..........one.)

I never said I bought it to carry 12 kids to baseball practice. I bought it
because I wanted REAR wheel drive, and the ability to carry 4 tall
passengers. In 2002, the choices were limited as follows:

1) Crown Victoria. Better gas mileage, but I didn't want the exploding gas
tank feature, which was standard until two years later. All other sedans
capable of towing were front wheel drive.

2) Double cabs from all other manufacturers only came with a V-8. I didn't
want or need a V-8.

What would you have bought?



-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.

Ahh, so it is the *soccer mom's* that you have a problem with.

Well, if you had any sense of....anything....oh never mind.



I thought most drive mini vans so as to lug around a bunch of kids, most
of which probably get better gas mileage than your pickup truck. Is that
not a good enough reason for you? Don't they have a right to buy whatever
they want to?

A mini van would've been a good idea, except that the only ones worth
considering, in terms of quality, were front wheel drive.



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

No, nor do I know what the typical male truck buyer gives as a reason.
Are you saying that only men who buy trucks have a reason for doing so?

Drunk again? Do you notice that some ads are directed very obviously at one
gender or another? Some are so obvious that they're like a boxing glove
popping out of the TV and knocking you out of your chair.