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Re:Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on Record by 0xbadcafebee on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:47AM (#38000826)
Particularly when your culture emphasizes it. Conservative heteronormative culture requires performative displays of manhood, and in the USA that means truck ownership. I can't imagine how humiliating it would be for a conservative man in the rural south to drive a sub-compact.
Re:Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on Record by BoxOfRain on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:15PM (#38001304)
This brings to mind that infamous part of the early Top Gear America special where Clarkson, Hammond, and May are chased out of a rural Alabamian town by some of its inhabitants for decorating some trucks in a less-than-conservative fashion.