Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows

Loads of insecure people, most of the ones I see are vanity purchases for people.

Even the majority of trades people are better off with a transit style van as its more weather and secure for tool/material storage while having a larger load area. Even landscapers do use vans in the UK, although not all annoyingly.

Sure, farmers might find a 4x4 pick up cheaper and more reliable while good off road than a defender style vehicle, but that's about the only group who benefit from it.

Even people that work at height such as those who work on lamp posts or power lines tend to have a specialized van or lorry with a lift built in than some shitty pick up.

My street is approximately large enough for one horse to walk through without stepping on very many orphans. That's the spec the roads here were built to, but now they've got fatso cars parked all throughout and you can barely ride a bike past my house.

I'll accept 4WD as a requirement, but why does it need to be a large truck? Wouldn't an AWD car, like a Subaru or VW, work just as well?