Americans and their trucks

It was bothering me for a while now why are Americans so obsessed with pickup trucks. Apart farm workers, ranchers and landscaping professionals (gardeners) nobody else really needs them. And yet Silicon Valley is full with them. However the ratio of soil and plant related professionals per computer science related professional does not justify the amount of trucks on the roads.

Even my neighbor has a truck and he's retired. It's big as f*ck, and he only drives it to go to the doctor in the morning as I've seen. Apart from that it parks in front of the house all day all week. Never have seen him hauling something big and heavy. Ever.

But look at this. What's common on these vehicles:

Well , both of them are:

• Dodge (irrelevant),
• big,
• powerful,
• big engine,
• loud,
• and have lots of chrome.

Problem solved! Poor Americans like these qualities in a car and yet automakers give them this:

They simply have no other choice but driving trucks. This on the picture looks like a European car. Not American. Kapish?! Leave the wanna-be-boy-racer cars to Europe, Japan and Middle-East! They have high enough gas prices to not to get any better... 1.2L, 4 cylinders, turbo 160 HP @ 7500rpm. It's a joke! Sport-compact my a**!