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Less than 20% of Americans live in most of the (very large) country. The rest live in cities and suburbs.




And how do you think vehicle ownership compares between those two groups?

In the cities and suburbs—-where the vast majority of trucks are garaged—-they are generally an obnoxious luxury good.

Which is why new pickup truck models are so often not fit-for-purpose as a working truck of any kind. Like an EV F-150.


Those census definitions are not good. I’m sure the place I went to high school is considered “city” by that definition, but the average HN poster would not recognize it as one, and there were lots of farm working trucks around.

It turns out that anecdotes don't constitute data. If the place you went to high school is considered "city" by the census definition, then I guarantee the majority of pickup trucks in the area were obnoxious luxury goods that never hauled a single thing to or from a farm.

And you would be wrong.



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