Trucks over cars

that is a lot of assumption to project

Agreed. Trucks have become more of a social status symbol than in past years for sure. Their glorification in the "wanna be redneck" group is probably a big part of that.

I enjoy driving trucks. I drive them at work every day, from small pickups to medium duty trucks. I get it-- it is fun to tow stuff and move heavy loads and whatnot. It doesn't change the fact that it's pretty wasteful to do it just for the hell of it.

>I don't have to worry about snow or flash flooding to stop to continue on my path.
This way of thinking must be why there are only SUVs and trucks turned on their roof whenever I'm driving in bad weather

A truck with a pickup bed is a pickup truck.
A car with a pickup bed is a ute.

Does it have direct injection?

Typically everything on a truck is built stronger. They do get worse MPG than cars though, typically. You'll pay more at the pump, but for the most part trucks will go 250K before giving you any issues.

Also, if you're buying a older truck, compared them to modern half tons first. You'll likely find that many new half ton trucks have very similar tow capacitys to older 3/4 and 1 ton trucks.

Insurance is cheaper.

They're good as A-B beaters and you can put them to work.

Trucks have crash boxes

Sorry you dumbistanians need to call utes "trucks" to feed your egos and small dicks.

that really depends on the car and truck being insured

will a truck be cheaper to insure than a camaro? most likely

will a truck be cheaper to insure than a honda civic? doubtful