Today, in most of America, pickup trucks used as cars are an accepted norm—they’re America’s best-selling vehicles for a reason. Whether it’s their unabashedly broad-shouldered macho style, the can-do capability in any weather and over any terrain, or the full-framed toughness baked into every build, a pickup truck makes a statement.
Pickups even make sense in places like California, despite gas nudging up against $7 a gallon there at press time — rugged construction and tall tires soak up ruts and bumps on the notoriously poorly paved freeway system. Pickups offer comfort that a modern car, with its low-profile rubber and Nürburgring-tuned suspension, simply cannot provide.
The use of trucks as cars on the American road has been a full-blown trend since at least the ’70s, but even before this it took years
