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Not often. But I do buy some here and there. Fences. I have a dog and a little boy. We build stuff.
I have a dog and build stuff and we have a little Toyota Yaris lol
I once fit all the building materials for a super king bed in my little Yaris which still impresses people over here. Absolute worse case scenario, I could get a man with a van to haul something I defo couldn’t haul for like £20, but I’ve never had to. Places like b&q or wicked (uk equivalent to like home depot or lowe’s) will deliver next day for cheap too, so it’s a non issue.
Here it takes more coordination. Especially for lumber stuff. Now and days I fit most in my Integra. But there are time I wish I had more capacity.
At the moment maybe it does, but that’s something that could change. I grew up in the US and I genuinely don’t remember trucks being so huge when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. My dad had a work truck and the trucks now would eat that thing for breakfast.
Those old Toyota small sized trucks were perfect for short jots. But they are no longer sold.
Wasn’t a Toyota, was a gmc if I remember right. Defo US brand. Brown with a blue stripe :)
Ah yes, activities famously absent in the rest of the world where people drive normal sized vehicles.
"I like having a huge monster of a vehicle and this outweighs the negative impact of my choices for me" is a perfectly fine thing to say instead of scrambling to come up with weird reasons one might want to own a giant car.
I never said I liked it. I don't even own one. But there are needs for a truck. If you work in construction or even have a new house. Or your hobbies include going outdoors to camp or fish.
The only options where a truck is needed is this giant behemoth or you buy used. And the used ones are almost as big.
I agree that this is bad for the environment. I was curious to the mechanics of Europe because through the conversation it seems they have a different slant. Which with all these answers, they do.