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Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've never understood why so many people in the US buy pickups. City dwellers? Why? People in most trades? Panel van > pickup. Farmers or ranchers? Makes sense.

[–] czardestructo 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Status symbol and to project a personality.

[–] wreckedcarzz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Status symbol: "I'm a fucking moron :D"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Now with Truck Nuts^Tm

[–] FenrirIII 3 points 2 months ago

It's also ego and insecurity about their masculinity

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

My employer just swapped me from a pickup with a covered rollout bed to a van. I absolutely love it! Slightly less comfortable ride, but carries more parts and it's all more accessible, especially if it's raining or snowing. So this is why many companies have been using vans for so long...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Utility, can carry tall stuff, and can carry messy stuff without worrying about dirtying up the inside of a vehicle. Rain will wash a pickup bed out. At least that's why I have one, hauling stuff, working around my property, hauling trash. But mine is a 1995.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I/my business have owned 4 panel vans. One was an IVECO that had a 5+m long by 2+m tall interior. I'd much rather haul a tall load enclosed. If I ever needed to haul something taller, I could always rent a pickup or a real truck, and not being saddled by the pickup's shortcomings everyday.

Pickups have their uses, and I never denied that, I just say that most pickups don't do pickup duty, and that a lot do panel van duty.