*sniff* love that new car smell

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You raise an interesting point in my mind, Cappy, back in the 30s and 40s, people had BIG families, like up to 20 kids... how did they ever manage with those small vehicles? I remember my gramps talking about talking trips from the country into the city in the 1940s with gram and their 6 kids and they'd have two out in the rumble seat, 3 in the back seat, and he and gram in the front seat with the youngest on her lap... driving down treacherous winding dirt roads. How on earth with people with more than 6 kids manage? I guess they might have used pickups with a load of people in the back... safety? LOL Each family should have had a bus back then!
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That's funny!! My friend Hugo in Germany has told me about many near misses with his Japanese SUV, which all his friends call "The Tank". At the time, I had a Ford Expedition and he said mine dwarfed his. So I can only imagine how inconvenient a bigger SUV or pickup would be in the UK or many parts of the continent. Well, inconvenient for other drivers!

I'm amazed by the lack of full-size pickups and SUVs in Australia. Ford introduced the F150 and F250 for a while there, but they are no longer available. Neither are Mustangs, for that matter.

Archaon, I've driven all over the western world in just about everything imaginable, and nothing in my mind can top a Ford F150. It's just so comfortable and secure. I saw a lot of American pickup trucks in the south of France last time I was there 2 years ago.

As I say like looking at them but I've never driven a pickup let alone an F150. Shows aside I did once come across a Dodge Ram coming from the other direction on a mini roundabout on a narrow-ish street. That was, uhm, borderline scary to be honest - I had a Tigra Mk1 at the time which was tiny and low.

And yes I have owned two Tigras and currently a Clio - I'm doing well on the manly front, I know...