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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Trucks and SUVs actually do look cool...
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Matter of taste, of course. I always thought the best a pickup could do is look functional. The ones from the last decade or two just look silly, with the grille & front end treatments that quite honestly do seem deliberate attemps to make them look like giant penises.
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...while all that "active lifestyle" BS is just a marketing deal to fool the rednecks and drown them in debt.
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Well, there is a use for a pickup in an active lifestyle. I have one - an '88 Toyota - which hauls hay for the horses, firewood for me, other stuff on demand. Other times it gets me to trailheads at the end of 4WD tracks, or through a foot or two of snow for cross-country skiing. (That's snow on the road: the banks are running 12-15 ft this year.) It's maybe half the size and twice the mpg of a modern "full size" pickup, and best of all, it cost me all of $2800 a decade ago, not $50K that I'd still be making payments on...