Cars are very, very often sold using sex or sexually appealing stereotypes. Hardly anyone in most cities had a truck like this. Now loads of people do, because they were told by advertising people that it would be a good idea. It was not the purchasers idea to create this car.

And all at a time of pollution as a huge problem.

Everyone wants to believe they're somehow above the influence of advertising, while a large percentage still earn their income working for ad companies.

To them: If advertising doesn't work, what's your company selling? A lie?

Yes. I suspect that flagged poster had recently bought a truck to plug some gap in his masculine confidence!

The truck thing is nuts. They are so big now that you cannot see an eight year old child for several metres from the grill, because the front is taller than a child. They are more polluting. Noisier. Really they are, for society, most unwelcome.

And yet they ran adverts that said people should buy them. And they did. And they paid a premium over and above what many people save in a year.

It's sad you think humans are just drones only influenced by ads

Trucks are more powerful than cars, more power equals more freedom and independence

If society came to an absolute abrupt stop and everything we take for granted today no longer was available (I'm talking worse than this quarantine) a truck would be useful in many ways a car couldn't be