European pick-ups do have a place. You need to have to both tow, and go off-road regularly. Basically, horse owners, farmers, and some areas of construction. American pick-ups are just obscenely big, and completely inappropriate for almost all uses.
A van wins in almost all cases, except off-road performance. Vans are hilariously bad at that.
Don’t get me wrong, 90%+ who have one really don’t need one. I’m not arguing with that.
The acid test is how dirty it is. If it’s always ultra shiny, it’s an ego prosthetic. If it’s regularly mud splattered etc, it’s more likely to be legit.
European pick-ups do have a place. You need to have to both tow, and go off-road regularly. Basically, horse owners, farmers, and some areas of construction. American pick-ups are just obscenely big, and completely inappropriate for almost all uses.
A van wins in almost all cases, except off-road performance. Vans are hilariously bad at that.
And yet all those areas you mentioned managed just fine until now and there are way more pickup trucks than people who use them in those ways.
If it’s for hard work it doesn’t need to be a personal vehicle.
Don’t get me wrong, 90%+ who have one really don’t need one. I’m not arguing with that.
The acid test is how dirty it is. If it’s always ultra shiny, it’s an ego prosthetic. If it’s regularly mud splattered etc, it’s more likely to be legit.