Comparison left vs right for a craftsman who doesnt know which one he should buy:
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l/r same bed size
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r lower bed for way easier loading/unloading
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r less likely to crash
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r less fuel consumption and costs
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r less expensive to repair
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r easy to park
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r easy to get around in narrow places like crowded construction sites or towns
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r not participating in road arms race
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l You get taken serious by your fellow carbrained americans because ““trucks”” are normalized and small handy cars are ridiculed.
So unless you are a fragile piece of human, choose the right one.
I feel like you’re taking this discussion way too personally. You don’t need to defend your own purchase here. I already granted that anyone’s choice of transport is hugely influenced by environmental factors, and in the United States those favour very big personal vehicles.
Even if that weren’t the case, there will always be niches in which a specific choice makes sense, even if the choice were broadly asinine (which - again - choosing a large vehicle is not if you’re in the United States). I am not (and no sane person in this thread) is arguing that there are no valid use cases for these vehicles, even in a country where infrastructure and society is designed around smaller vehicles.
Yes, the load a minitruck can carry is a lot less than a large truck. That doesn’t take away the fact that the focus on huge personal use vehicles in the United States broadly has a lot of negative externalities.