joemac

Buick and Pontiac are not full line brands, thus don't have econo boxes. How many econo boxes are present in the Infiniti and Lexus brands?

Same can be said for about many vehicles purchased. Basically the stereo-typing is "my vehicle is perfect for me, but everyone else’s choice makes no sense for them." Us driving F-bodies, Vettes, GTO's and many other vehicles often buy in "excess" it's in the American jean. We have the freedom to do so. :unitedstates" Today's trucks have such versatility they can play many rolls other vehicles can not. They can do it all, take a single person to work, take the family out to dinner, to the grocery store, go to the home improvement store, out and back to the hunting lease, pickup a load of firewood, haul the travel trailer with the family on vacation, tow the car to and from the track. All this in one vehicle and not multiples. Decades previous it would take multiple vehicles to accomplish this. The amount of versatility in today’s trucks far exceeds the capabilities of previous offerings. Thus why they are so popular, get all of capabilities and versatility in one package. Current day, sure we could do just about the same thing with less. Though from personal experience after owning a half ton and now a diesel HD truck, there is a huge amount of difference secure and stable feed back a HD truck gives you when under like loads. Compound the responsibility of that having a family inside, many people would opt for the vehicle that exceeds the capabilities, over what's just enough to get by. After seeing first hand how easy it is to have an incident while loading down a 1500 (too much tongue weight, no enough tongue weight, many choose to error with more truck than needed. Your margin of error with regards to load greatly diminishes with the use of an HD truck.

Does anyone have the full video captured?