Not really, England, Aussie, and NZ all use 'pickups' quite heavily... we call them Ute's. Each seems to have their preferences. In NZ we love toyotas, they're the right size, robust, good 4wd for getting through sticky spots etc. Aussies seem to like holden utes (technically a car). Poms have a thing for rangi's (Range Rovers). The thing about the RAM is it would be shocking for the average NZ farm, it's to big, it'd get stuck, wouldn't be able to get through tight spots etc. Plus most farmers prefer diesel engines, they give more torque etc.
I just looked up what a Ute is. That's not a truck. That's a car with a bed. Where I'm from we just call that type of vehicle an El Camino whether it is or isn't an actual El Camino.
And I don't agree with a full sized American pickup being too big for a NZ farm. NZ is twice the size of Pennsylvania and I saw plenty of full size pickups working on the farms up in the valleys this past August.
Althouh it might have alot to do with NZ being an island.
You generaly only get a pickup stuck when you're doing something stupid with it. Regular farmwork and most off-road driving they can handle with ease.
But still. I'm not saying the vehiclles are bad, or that the whole population there are using the wrong tool. If that's what works than more power to them for using what works.
I dislike it, when someone takes a vehicle, any vehicle; and out of the blue compares it to something that performs a completely different task and then complain that this vehicle can't do that task as well as the specialist vehicle.
It just frustrates me when someone can make a living spouting inane and stupid things about stuff like this. Pass it off as great knowledge, or that he's making some grand point of fact. Which is what he was trying to do in that video. And then throw in stupid, out-dated, tasteless, stereotypical jokes that aren't funny on top of it all. The entire effect on me is that I feel as though he is going completely out of his way to insult me.
All in all... he just reminds me too much of my college Professors. And anything that reminds me of college has a tendancy to overly upset me.
So I apologize if I went a little batty in this thread. Shoot me down a couple more times ingame for it.
