This one isn’t directly about cars, but it does go some way to explaining the mentality of people that buy giant trucks that have never been used for any sort of work. That is, people who live in cities but identify as “rural” people.
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As someone who lives in the countryside, and drives a small old truck for necessity, these people are a pain in the ass, and make everything worse for people like me. The trend for making trucks bigger, less easily repairable, with fancier interiors and plastic everywhere is driven by this idiotic posturing, not by the average person who actually uses them as the tool they’re supposed to be
There’s an investment office around the corner from me. Financial planners. Men with soft hands. Every one of them drives a large truck with a lift kit. Each one tries to out-do the others every truck they buy. These trucks never see a day of actual work.