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Why is everyone driving a truck?

The stats don’t lie. Trucks have been outselling cars in Canada by about three to one for a number of years. According to our Driving pages in this newspaper, the Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in Canada for 10 years in a row. And what was second in 2018? The Ram 1500.

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In fact, in the top five best-sellers, there is only one car. I don’t get it.

I drive a VW Jetta, “salsa red” in colour. Perfectly respectable passenger car, when it isn’t in the shop. And it’s a “Wolfsburg” edition, so it was hand-buffed by Heidi, over in the Black Forest. Or so we humour ourselves.

Here’s something to worry about, though. If I ever got crushed between an F-150 and a Ram 1500 at high speed, I wouldn’t need a casket. Just bury me in the compacted cookie tin left on the road.

I mean, look at these beasts. They have giant grills that look as though they’re about to eat you. Ridiculous. They’re so high, you don’t slip into them, you climb. If they’re tailing you at night, the headlights are blinding. We won’t mention those idiot mufflers with their industrial belching.