[jandrese]

Pickup trucks aren't for carrying a family around. The whole point is to have a large open cargo space for building materials, equipment, etc... If you want to haul a family use a sedan or minivan. Those back seats in crew cabs are always cramped and uncomfortable anyway. They are a terrible tradeoff, and yet the entire automotive industry has gone all in on them.

[jaredhallen]

What if you need to haul things while simultaneously carrying a family around? I don't find them to be a terrible tradeoff at all, and I expect that the reason the entire automotive industry has gone all in on them is because I'm not an outlier in that regard.

[freemint]

> What if you need to haul things while simultaneously carrying a family around?

Have one partner drive a sedan/wagon with the kids and another partner haul. A lot more economical too.

[rascul]

How is it more economical to drive the truck and car instead of just the truck?

[freemint]

Because you can drive such a truck https://preview.redd.it/jxpnmzv586e81.png?width=1024&auto=we... if you do not need to transport a family and a sedan and those two will weigh less and have better combined gas mileage than american larger truck. If you relax the assumption that you always transport both a family and a truck load you allow for more powerful trucks and still come out ahead.

In addition you do not need to waste gas if either capability goes unused and the mileage of transporting people won't depreciate the more expensive truck faster.

[jandrese]

Get an ute then?

[rootusrootus]

> Those back seats in crew cabs are always cramped and uncomfortable anyway

Huh? Show me a single sedan with the rear seat legroom of an F150? Heck, how many come within six inches of having that kind of legroom?

No wonder you think pickups aren't for carrying a family around.