It is not buying the biggest vehicle someone can "afford."  The next big financial crisis is going to be all of the predatory loans being repossessed.  

The A pillar had about a 10ft long blind spot at 30ft away.  Luckily that was the in last 20 minutes that I had it.  Other than that I figured everything else out.

How was your line of sight in that big truck???

History has shown that in all prosperous cultures the people (in general) will buy the largest vehicles they can afford.

In a very real way, the full sized pickup trucks you see so many of (with one person and nothing in the bed) are like the "land yachts" of the '50s and early '60s:  gigantic, inefficient, and in high demand.


An interesting comparison is to put a modern one up beside a traditional work truck, like an old F100.  Those things were used by their owners, every day and in every way, to make their living.  You can stand beside the bed of one of those, flat footed, and reach all of the way to the bottom of the bed.  The driver's seat is only slightly above one in a contemporary sedan.  The fact that the modern ones sit so very far up in the air has perhaps as much to do with fashion as for usefulness.  That so many then get a lift and even larger tires shortly after purchase is even more interesting.

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So not only was the CC bad but so was the Evaporative Control Valve Module.  $320 later that we really didn't have and they claimed the CC was not the real problem.  So I spent my money and the day after the check engine light is on again for the catalytic converter.  If they had explained that I will probably have to bring it back again, I wouldn't have been so pissed off.  Instead, they told me that it was good to go no problems.  So I flat out called him a liar over the phone and to his face when I got down there a day later.

Since the CC is a warrantied part, Ford had to loan me a vehicle.  Through Enterprise RAC, we were the lucky recipients of a 2017 F150 4x4 crew cab.  So new that it only had 78 miles on it when we got it.  We returned it with 790 miles 5 days later, mostly stop and go traffic.

My personal opinions on this large vehicle:  First and foremost it is big, there are bigger vehicles out there, "duh."  Compared to the Focus it is captain obvious way too big for my family.  My wife didn't even want to drive because she was intimidated by its size.  It rode like a truck, (captain obvious strikes again) but it felt better than the focus that we have.  The electronics and controls were just as good or maybe a little better.  $43k for a vehicle that is completely impractical for my family.  

The rant: I see a lot of people driving behemoths like this as daily commuting vehicles.  Those that do are insane!  My job as a caregiver sometimes requires that I drive my clients to and fro.  When I had the truck I was not able to do that part of my job.  On that same note, I also see people with handicapped plates/placards using full-size+ trucks.  Just recently saw an elderly man park in the fire lane in front of an auto parts store and need a walker to ease himself down to terra firma.  I checked out his interior and he had extra handles screwed into the A and B pillars of this vehicle to aid getting in and out.  That is absolute stupidity!  I do get the appeal of trucks though, with the feeling of being able to go just about anywhere within logic/physics.  I was worried about stuffing it, but also not worried about stuffing it.  Because it's so big, frankly who cares.  I will concede that there are a bunch of uses for large trucks and SUVs, and towing Mini's and MINI's is definitely a justification.  I wish dope slaps would be legalized because by golly I deserve a few.  But there are some that need it so bad that I also wish it would be worth the assault charge.  (It certainly is not worth that felony.)