alt Hacker News> pickup truck should just be max utility
Except the main demographic buying F150s is suburban dads driving to their office job.
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bluGill • yesterday at 7:36 PM
And using the truck on weekends to tow the boat, or do other work with it. Not every weekend, but once a month in summer.
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I think the reason this take gets push-back in discussions (including here) is that it's highly regional.
I've lived in parts of the US where I doubt more than 10% of pickup trucks on the road (and there were a lot of them) were really justifiable purchases as trucks. They were aspirational purchases, and/or were selected for status/class/politics signaling.
I've lived other places in the US where the whole region had far fewer trucks (but a hell of a lot more Volvos... like, easily 10x as many as the other place) where I bet at least 50% of pickup trucks saw enough truck-use to really be justifiable.