[QUOTE 4097615, member: 43827"]Why do people in the UK drive these huge kick-ass 4WD trucks? I can understand it if you're a farmer or a builder who has to lug stuff around, or needs to chuck the odd dead elk that you've shot in the back, but nearly all the ones I see in our city are shiny things without a scrap of mud or any dents in them.
They've always got butch names such Shogun or Warrior or Serial Killer (OK I made that one up) and I have a theory that ownership would drop rapidly if they were compelled to have names such as Petunia, Fairy or Geranium.[/QUOTE]
there is, or used to be, a big tax advantage for having one as a company car. A light commercial used as company van had a very low benefit-in-kind tax, so there was a great demand for fairly posh vehicles which could be counted as a van. Irish import Discovery "vans" with no rear windows fir instance, or these big pickups - wheras if you had a £50k jag, or Discovery (car) then you'd have your arse taxed off.