I am writing because I can no longer contain myself with the moral outrage and amusement that I feel when I see the marketing practices of the car companies trying to convince poor suckers to give up their hard-earned moola for a truck. TV ads in particular are most enlightening. You can't possibly hurt them. People line up to buy these things.
Sales are off the scale.
Half of the vehicles sold today are either trucks or Station wagons on steroids, another highly profitable item. The people buying these trucks in hopes of increasing their testosterone levels don't do anything approaching what these commercials suggest. Instead, they go get truck bed protectors and lots of wax, polish, Armorall and the like. When they need to haul anything more abrasive than rabbit fur, they rent a U-Haul. My family has had several trucks over the years.