What's in your garage?

[deerfield]

My wife came across a conversation in the twitter world that made me smile.

In this case, the conversation was connected to a short piece in the online magazine The Federalist about the sale of pickup trucks. Link: http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/04/...-drives-truck/

In this piece that has a political bent, the author points out that last year the top three best selling new vehicles in America were full-size pickup trucks. Not crossovers, SUVs, sports cars, or sedans. But pickup trucks, of which, in 2016 more than 162,000 were sold.

I was aware of their popularity because of where we live in rural Virginia, but not aware of just how popular pickups are in general across the country. As reported by AutoBlog, these are the 2016 new vehicle sales numbers:

1) Ford F-Series - 69,651;
2) Ram 1500-3500 - 47,792;
3) Chevrolet Silverado - 45,380;
4) Toyota Corolla - 32,272;
5) Honda CR-V - 31,884;
6) Toyota Camry - 30,707;
7) Toyota RAV4 - 29,348;
Honda Civic - 28,184
9) Honda Accord - 27,204; and
10) Nissan Rogue - 26,459.

Link: http://www.autoblog.com/photos/best-...#slide-3625527

While I am not taking a side with or against the author’s politics, I did find humor in responses that apparently resulted from this question, which was not well received by journalists: Do you personally know someone that owns a pickup truck?

As mentioned in the Federalist piece, according to a market research firm trucks (with Ford leading the way) are the most popular vehicles among Republicans and Subaru is the most popular choice of vehicle for Democrats.

I have to chuckle. In my garage is a Ram crew cab pickup. Next to it, as you face the garage, on the left, is a Subaru.