[piva00]

There's a market, it's tiny compared to the USA but I've seen bigger trucks like the Dodge RAM, Ford F-250, and similar peppered around Stockholm's area more affluent neighbourhoods/municipalities.

When I lived in Huddinge (a higher income municipality with lots of villas/detached houses) it seemed like 1 every 5 houses had at least one of those trucks parked in their garage, some had 2 or more. Same around the Danderyd area...

I've noticed the uptick in larger trucks, and bigger SUVs around the streets here for the past 4-5 years.

I really hope this trend doesn't continue, it sucks.

[theshrike79]

Yeah, we have those in Finland too. They're all for pavement princesses. They're always immaculately detailed, not a scratch, dent or dirt stain on them.

If people need a "truck" for actual work, they'll get a Toyota Hilux. And even those tend to have a hard shell over the bed essentially making it a van with huge ground clearance.

[rsynnott]

Throughout Europe, total sale of _all_ pickup trucks is about 100k/year. US annual sales are in the region of 2 to 3 million.

[panick21_]

It will continue unless we legislate against it. There are many things that can be done.

[theshrike79]

As long as we don't incentivise them like they (accidentally?) did in the US by having large enough vehicles be exempt from most environmental regulations...