re: Baw, do you get 4x4 trucks even if you don't need it?

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I wish the staus symbol truck buyers would never have happened.

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People don't realize it, but this is a product of the CAFE standards of the 90s. The standards didn't apply to trucks, so the US auto manufacturers started pushing trucks because they had a higher profit margin than the cars that had to adhere to CAFE. Young men who used to crave muscle cars now crave trucks. They just don't realize that they've been manipulated into it by marketing.

If marketing didn't work, it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar a year industry.