Pickup Trucks Grab Three Best-Selling Positions In America In Five Consecutive Months

Yup, like selling a 1992 S-10 Ext Cab 4.3L for $6600 this past weekend. And the guy who bought it was as happy as a pig rolling in sh!t, since he now had TWO of them.

Says a very ignorant person.

"Here’s hoping for $5.00/gallon gasoline." Might as well ask for higher utility bills, grocery bills, increase in cost of clothing, etc etc while your at it. If you don't like the price of gasoline now, don't buy it. Go buy a bike and start peddling. Or maybe you can take the $2.25 or so a gallon your saving right now and donate it to a local charity so you don't feel so bad about all that money your saving.

@mason You echo my thoughts.

@mason Agreed. People with this attitude passed CAFE, which is one of the reasons why pickups are so popular.

@mason >Might as well ask for higher grocery bills If you framed it as a way to punish fat people, there'd probably be a good amount of support for that.

@mason My desire for higher gasoline prices has nothing to do with the environment. It is strictly a desire to see fewer trucks on the road and or laugh at them when it costs them $200 for a fill up. I drive a lot, thus have a great deal of anecdotal evidence that pickup trucks and their drivers are the scourge of road, parking lots, etc. There is literally nothing funnier than seeing a pickup driver scrape or hit something because their commuter car is so comically large. I know people love them, but that doesn't mean I have to.

@danio3834 Im on board with punishing fat people with higher grocery bills.

@thegamper Although I partially share your position, I say blame the eternal fail of gov't for those comically large commuter vehicles.

@thegamper Who is more to blame in your opinion, the drug suppliers or the addicts?

@thegamper Wow, I never thought to take someone elses pick-up truck personally

Ditto on trucks, except for making me sad. But I can't agree on hoping for $5/gal gasoline. Although that wouldn't phase me much personally. The stats don't make me sad, but I just don't understand pickup trucks. To me it's like volunteering to drive a really crappy car with horrible blind spots. But if it's what people like then more power to them I guess. I just hope that they don't go nuts with this and EVERYONE starts building trucks and ignore cars. It's already hard enough to find a good lightweight 2-door with a backseat. Maybe I would enjoy a pickup truck if it had a roof height lower than 60". But I guess there isn't such a thing. Unless I open craigslist and look for an El Camino.

@DevilsRotary86 I just don't get this, despite what you read on the interwebs most people who buy trucks do so for a good reason. Just because when you see one without it's bed full or it's not trailering something doesn't mean it wasn't yesterday or maybe tomorrow.

@Lie2me Note that I didn't criticize on them being utilized or not. I don't really care if you do or not; it's not my business. Again, buy whatever you like. It's your money, enjoy it how you see fit. I can only assume that people buy trucks because they like trucks. What I said was that while I respect that people enjoy their trucks I don't understand why. I have driven trucks on rare occasion and ridden in them more than a few times. From my experience they are simply awful to drive.

@danio3834 "If you framed it as a way to punish fat people, there’d probably be a good amount of support for that." Although that wouldnt be a bad idea, that was not my intention. With the increased cost of oil comes the increase of all goods. Nothing escapes the wrath of the oil gods when prices go through the roof. Tweedle Dee tree hugger thinks he is only punishing those that drive larger vehicles but he will be feeling the pinch as well. Some people cant see the Forrest for the trees.

@thegamper " It is strictly a desire to see fewer trucks on the road and or laugh at them when it costs them $200 for a fill up." Either your a hopeless green weenie or you don't get out of the city much. Folks in the country have a very real need for trucks. Farmers rely on them to make a living and put food on their and your table. They also feel the pain at the pump more than anybody because of the high volume of fuel they consume. My family farm averages 150+ gallons a day during planting season. Your brainless wishes of us bleeding every month when when we pay the fuel bill is pretty short sighted to say the least. But don't worry, we'll be sure to pass the costs on to you when our profits go back into the red.

@DevilsRotary86 "From my experience they are simply awful to drive." So is a Civic with 3000 pounds of stone in the back. Just sayin.

@DevilsRotary86 ... and I absolutely detest sports cars, but I wouldn't care if everybody else drove one

@DevilsRotary86 "So is a Civic with 3000 pounds of stone in the back. Just sayin." That's why I don't put 3,000 lbs of stone in a Civic. And if you don't have 3,000 lbs of stone in a Civic it's an OK car to drive. Not great, but it's OK. With a truck, it's awful to drive. With 3,000 lbs of stone, now it's awful to drive but weighed down with 3,000 lbs of stone.

@Lie2me " I never thought to take someone elses pick-up truck personally" Tell that to the Ford, GM and RAM owners who flipped me the bird when I drove past them in my Tundra with 9X15 trailer behind it. Happened to me in a lot of places, among them Eloy, AZ, Hastings, NB, Overland Park, KS, Dalhart, TX, Sparks, NV, and Oceanside, CA. Them red-neck boys and girls just don't like that Tundra....

@DevilsRotary86 - all depends on where you drive and what kind of driving you enjoy. Driving on the freeway is boring unless it is busy then it tends to be stressful. Most paved roads don't get interesting unless you exceed the posted limits. I can spend a day on back country logging roads in my truck and rarely ever go over 50mph and have a blast dodging holes, washouts, blow-down trees and assorted wildlife. Sure most SUV's can do the same thing but not with the versatility or utility of a pickup. Most SUV's are street biased anyway and would get stuck or break in areas I tend to go. I personally don't like seeing trucks used as soccermomobiles or brodozers but then again I don't like seeing performance/sports cars being used as "lookatme" commuter cars.

@Lie2me I don't know man. I have driven an import truck for some time and never got the bird. The closest to vehicle hatred I've seen was BMW riders when I had a KLR650, but even they didn't flip you off...they just tended to not return the wave. I think the most anger I've seen directed at vehicle drivers goes towards the Prius for some reason.

@thegamper We capped out at 4 bucks a gallon or so in metro Louisville. There was much consternation some time back about V6 F150's getting the 26 gallon tank versus the 36 of the V8. So if Gas went a full dollar over peak here to 5 bucks a gallon and I got an F150 with the biggest damn tank available I'd still have to pump 20 bucks onto the ground to get your mythical 200 dollar fill up. And I have a great deal of anecdotal evidence that the internet is full of people that say dumb stuff.

@Lie2me In my part of the country, Prius drivers always seem to keep in the left lane and drive the speed limit, or less. In NM, we're supposed to drive in the right-hand lane unless passing. That Prius drivers do this could be because the left lane is usually the smoother, less worn of the four-lane highways. But even on two-laners, the Prius drivers always seem to drive the speed limit, or below. That tends to p!ss a lot of people off who like to go at least 10 over the limit. As far as getting the digitus impudus flipped my way, it's probably because those places I mentioned are where Tundra trucks there are few and far between. I've caught people staring at both my truck and the wife's Sequoia, looking inside, pointing and waving, and even took pictures of them without them knowing. At the Eloy Pilot station I had a whole gaggle of rednecks looking the truck over, talking amongst themselves. My Tundra was the only one there at that time and must have caused a "whatizzit" moment in the desert rife with domestic pickup trucks.

@mkirk And what it really boils down to is that most Americans choose to drive what they want to drive, regardless of the cost of fuel, maintenance, upkeep and insurance expense. I would much rather drive something that I want to drive than to be crammed into a pregnant roller skate or a sardine can on wheels because the EPA would like to turn all of us into Europeans. Hell, even my German cousins and their families drive the biggest and baddest they can afford. My Portuguese relatives OTOH? Very few of them even own a car. They rent one for the annual vacay.

Bitter, much? You wish for $5.00 gas? Why, so everyone who uses something other than the prius you drive, especially to work, will be forced out of business or face lay offs because the company cant make money running a fleet of trucks at that price? Food prices, really prices on all items would rise sharply, possibly out of reach for some. Not that they can afford the gas to drive to the store in the first place. Who built your apartment/house? Was he driving a Saturn or an F-250? Did the guy who put the roof on arrive on a city bus with all the materials and tools required for the job in his pocket, or did he show up in a truck or truck-like vehicle (full sized van, which gets similar mpg as a pickup)? Do you grow all of your own food? If not and you buy it in a store, how do you suppose it got there, fresh and ready for you to buy? A Nissan Sentra or a truck? You hate trucks and their owners so much that you wish for a total economic collapse, sky rocketing prices on food and other goods, millions of people out of work just so you can toot along in the car pool lane on the way to your yoga class and not have to look at a Ram in the next lane? You are an idiot.

@JohnTaurus Don't worry John. I tried to be a voice of reason as well, but quickly learned I was under witted.

@JohnTaurus Like Americans really need cheap or cheaper food. Just look at them, Americans are already some of the fattest people on earth. All that cheap food mostly accounts for quantity rather than quality. Chicken and beef mostly bread on corn and hormones in cages, corn based sugars used as the base for all sugary foods, etc. Food may cost a lot more in Europe, but an average European sure eats a lot better and healthier than an American, even in Greece. Cheap food is just like all that cheap gas, which mostly results in bigass trucks and SUVs/CUVs mostly being used as a single person suburban transportation device. I often hear the excuse people need trucks for towing stuff, yet in my fairly well-to do suburb in Texas, most trucks come without a trailer hook and many have their truck bed sealed. For the most part, these serve as an ego booster for macho men with money but not much refinement or style. Having said that, trucks don't annoy me on the road as much as the SUVs, which always block the view of everyone driving behind them because absolutely every SUV apparently absolutely needs to have its rear glass tinted and impenetrable for light.

> I guess I will never understand the popularity of trucks. Paranoia, fear, image, over compensation. Same reason all these tards in my neck of the woods are packing heat in church. This whole country has lost its mind.

@Jacob You live in a suburb, that's most of the problem right there. I can't tell you why people in the city choose to buy trucks, but then again I can't tell you why people choose to live in a city. Or suburb, or whatever. There is a big world outside of your concrete jungle and I assure you trucks get used as they are intended.

@LectroByte Carrying a fire arm in this country has been one of our fundamental rights for the last 225+ years. Where the hell have you been? Drinking the Cuomo koolaid much?

@mason When a bunch of really smart dudes sat down a couple hundred years ago and read what they had spent months creating they decided they had missed some really important stuff. The second thing they came up with was that whole keep and bear arms bit. But I am sure you know better than Franklin, Madison, and those guys. Had they had pickup trucks back then they likely would have enshrined the right to own them some where in the top 5 because 'Murica! And I'm not sure how a truck addresses paranoia unless you are one of those zombie fearing folks in which case you need a diesel rig you can live in I guess.

@mason "Carrying a fire arm in this country has been one of our fundamental rights for the last 225+ years." I have the right to call you all sorts of awful names under the first amendment. It does not mean it's moral, or even polite, for me to do so. A similar analogy exists between being allowed to carry a firearm versus packing heat in Starbucks or at church because you're either hypermasculine, have a persecution complex, a raging case of paranoia, or all of the above. Just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean you should do so at every opportunity.

@psarhjinian I for one have no problem with a law abiding citizen who has passed a background check and has no criminal history carrying a gun everywhere he goes. Do you think its coincidence that 99% of public shootings occur in gun free zones? The people that do these horrendous crimes are cowards in every aspect. They aren't man enough to confront someone with a gun who is capable of defending himself, so they prey on schools, malls, libraries, and any other public place that bans firearms. The only people that are affected by "gun free" zones are the law abiding ones. The other side don't care. But I know your solution, just ban them all together right? Yep, that will make it all better.

@psarhjinian "The other side don’t care. But I know your solution, just ban them all together right? Yep, that will make it all better." It works in other countries, just not the US, because just about everyone has a gun and the checks on ownership are awful because FREEDOM! It's kind of sad: the US does need sensible gun policies, but it would take years for the guns in the system to age out---during which you'd get the worst of both worlds---especially with the relative craziness of the gun movement. Personally, if America is going to refuse to make adult decisions about firearms, I feel it needs to make adult decisions about supporting people with addiction and mental health issues. Unfortunately, the political wing that opposes sensible gun policy also refuses to have any truck with sensible health care.

@psarhjinian "Unfortunately, the political wing that opposes sensible gun policy also refuses to have any TRUCK with sensible health care." Freudian slip?

@psarhjinian The US has by far the highest gun ownership rate in the world. An average of 88 per 100 people. Even the number two country is nearly half of the US at roughly 55 per 100 people. But the US does NOT have the worst firearm murder rate. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of less than 3 per 100,000 people. When you look at the 27 countries with a higher murder rate and look at the number of gun owners per 100, the results are staggering. Our guns don't need to go anywhere, we simply need to tighten the belt on the justice system and as you mentioned improve on the registration of firearms and background checks. I also agree 1000 percent that we need to focus more on the mentally ill. This doesn't mean dope them up with more narcotics, that's why we got so many dam crazies running around to begin with. Severe the umbilical cord from the pharmaceutical industry, get rid of all these dumb pain and psych meds and get some REAL help for these people. Our society is being poisoned with meds, and insurance companies are making billions in the process. There's a lot wrong with our society but the 2nd A has nothing to do with it.