Dunno why you're getting downvoted for sharing American culture. Your opinion seems to be the mainstream as far as I can tell "in the real world".

I'll +1 you to counteract the downvotes.

To serve as some counter-balance to your post, the bigger SUVs (which are more typical in America) feel unbalanced with abnormally high center-of-balance. When taking a corner at any decent speed, I feel like the car is ready to flip over. Also, big cars guzzle more gas and are inefficient.

Also, I live in an area without Moose. Those things are scary, and I'd definitely get a bigger car if I lived around them.

When I'm in a large SUV or pickup I'm worried about the far greater chance of killing someone else than when I'm in a smaller vehicle.

This concern, however, doesn't seem to bother many of the people in said vehicles.

A jetta would barely fit into my garage. If a "regular" pickup can swallow a jetta does that mean I can expect a "large" pickup to be bigger than my entire 5 bedroom house?

I dunno, what do you think?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6964996815_1f626fdbe5_b.j...

That's a large pickup: F-450

Here's another shot of the F-450:

http://www.tfltruck.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/car_trans...

I see a good number of F350 or larger trucks used to tow a bunch of other cars around.

That's a bit misleading though, since above F350 isn't really considered "consumer" level but commercial work trucks.

If you want a big truck while still technically being a pickup, you might as well go for the F750:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/600x315/71/c4/11/71c411...

http://www.ford.com/resources/ford/f-650-750/2016/homepage/c...

That said, I wish the US had a better selection of small cars. They're either absolute bottom of the line crap or extremely expensive sports cars, there's no mid range small coupe anymore.

Wow. I've never seen anything that size on the roads here.

Granted. There aren't many moose in central european cities, which are VW's main market.