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Originally Posted by mr smith
This Hillbilly crap should stay there.
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I was hoping
someone was going to say it...
Honestly...our roads (and parking lots) simply aren't designed with these monstrosities in mind. The F150? Sure...it's "normal" sized and fits in here well. The bigger rubbish? Good lord, how much of a status symbol do you really need to say "look at me"...?
The other problem is quality...the models that sell in their hundreds of thousands in the USA are cheap...and there's a damn good reason for that. And there's a reason the only ones we see here converted for sale are the higher end more luxurious models...if you tried to pass off a base model (read: volume selling in the US) truck here in Australia, no one much would buy it unless the price was correspondingly dirt cheap to allow for the cheap equipment level and build quality...
Funnily enough when we were in Vegas and southern Nevada, we saw way more Dodge Rams than Fords...I've often said you see more F250's driving around Rockhampton that we saw in Vegas. I'd guess roughly it was Rams first, followed by Toyota Tundras and Chev's, then other things we don't see here like Nissan Titans and Honda Ridgelines, then Fords, and funnily enough the Ford trucks we
did see were government vehicles...power, water, council, local government, heaps around the airport as service vehicles. In private hands though we just didn't notice that many. We were expecting heaps more.