My coworker lives in a downtown apartment with a cramped parking garage and bought a full size pickup to drive 1.5 miles to the parking garage at our workplace to write code. I'm embarrassed for them and keep telling them to buy a bicycle
I have lately been pretty convinced that 70% of pickup drivers don't actually need a truck but instead use it to compensate their insecurity about their small dicks and their fragile masculinity.
I feel like a pretty good vehicle for a lot of people like that who need a truck sometimes and don't want a second vehicle could be one of the new small diesel trucks, like the ram ecodiesel. 30mpg is more than even most compact SUVs get, it's still a truck for people that like that, and it can haul/tow more than a compact suv as well.
A big problem with 2 vehicles instead of 1 is often that insurance costs so much more, even if you're driving the same number of miles as when you had 1 vehicle. Registration fees too.
I keep my paid off subie around, but I do like driving the camp converted van around because I can just sit and relax without having to go all the way home.
I miss my S-10. You could crawl in the engine bay. 8 foot bed. Manual transmission. I know those size trucks aren't coming back anytime soon or probably ever.
Lemmy/Fediverse comment sections are pretty bad about making up personality traits/stereotyping people who do things they disagree with. This thread is wild.
My coworker in an office job drove an American-style pickup (it dwarfed my Fiesta on a parking lot), coincidentally he was also a hunter so it was just a cherry on top of the douchebaggery