[empthought]

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

[kryogen1c]

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

[empthought]

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.

[acheron]

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.

[empthought]

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.