Full Circle
I’m pretty sick of the whole SUV-bashing fad (talk to me when you’ve stopped driving, period), but this NYTimes article about how pickup trucks are the new SUVs is just plain funny, in a head-in-hands kind of way.
“It’s an S.U.V. with an open back,” Mr. Lawson, 33, said of his metallic gray Ford F-250 Crew Cab. The pickup weighs about three tons, empty, and has enough room in the cab for him, his wife, their two children in car seats and even the family’s chocolate lab.
Wait, didn’t the SUV start out as a pickup truck chassis with a top? The other day I was remembering how you could once mock SUV owners for never actually taking them off-road. Now that the Sport and Utility parts of the Vehicles have become all but vestigial, they need the truckbed to winch them back out of minivan territory.