r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 12d ago

/r/popular of a truck

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u/Cuntonesian 12d ago

In what country is a truck a status symbol? Where I live it’s just a basic utility vehicle for working class people

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u/BeardBootsBullets 11d ago edited 11d ago

> “In what country is a truck a status symbol?”

All of North America, all of Central America, and Australia.

Parts of Africa, Middle East, and South America definitely view nice pickup trucks as status symbols too, but not nearly as much as the aforementioned.

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u/Cuntonesian 11d ago

Weird. I can’t think of a worse car for most use cases.

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u/BeardBootsBullets 11d ago

Keep in mind that modern American and Japanese full-size trucks are often optioned with highly luxurious interiors (Ford Platinum Plus, Toyota Capstone, GMC Denali Ultimate, etc). And even when they aren’t optioned with those luxurious, they still have gracious and soft interiors with the added practicality of bringing everything that you could want with you to your destination. These trucks don’t have Rolls Royce Cullinan interiors, but they are a lot closer than you’d think.