Comparison left vs right for a craftsman who doesnt know which one he should buy:
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l/r same bed size
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r lower bed for way easier loading/unloading
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r less likely to crash
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r less fuel consumption and costs
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r less expensive to repair
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r easy to park
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r easy to get around in narrow places like crowded construction sites or towns
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r not participating in road arms race
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l You get taken serious by your fellow carbrained americans because ““trucks”” are normalized and small handy cars are ridiculed.
So unless you are a fragile piece of human, choose the right one.
Japan is known for not having much on-street parking, you need the extra 10 feet of height to see over the SUVs parked on every street corner here.
They don’t even sell like the tiny rangers anymore, the f150 trucks are so ridiculously oversized
I sort of need a truck. I routinely buy full size sheet goods (plywood, OSB, etc). So I bought my first ever truck. A Ford Maverick, got the hybrid engine. The amount of people who try to make fun of it and say it’s not a truck is insane. I don’t care, I bought it cuz it’s not really an American truck and it does what I need out of a truck. The obsession with making trucks larger and larger in the US is wild.
I live in a city in Western Canada and drive a pathetic vehicle smaller than a raised dually. I frequently pull up to intersections where you can’t turn left until the light changes but I’m turning right (two lanes). It is virtually inevitable that I will need to pull out to see to the left past some giant truck a guy is driving to his office job.
Without fail they all pull forward. Why? They don’t need to see past me.
It’s either because they can’t handle that I’m “winning” or they are deliberately blocking me from being able to see to right safely.
The next thing that happens is the giant truck behind my starts laying on the horn because they want me to go. When I first moved here I thought “it must be clear so they are letting me know”. It isn’t clear.
This is enough of an issue here that I avoid this situation at all costs. I’ll often turn right, left, and right again to do this on a single lane side street (mostly a grid here) rather than turn right at an intersection like this.