http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klZpwlgwOw
t;dr: the best-selling vehicle in the world, the Ford F150 is a piece of shit! [Jeremy Clackson]
I don't understand why so many american males have this insane urge to pay $50k to drive these things. Not being american I view trucks as utility vehicles. Used for construction work, or logging operations, not driving to the office. In my mind it would be like driving a tractor or front loader around town, simply silly.
So Clarkson says that the Brits are "just to sophisticated" to buy a pickup.
Really?
A nation that has been in continuous decline for at least 115 years, produces NOTHING other than the occasional sheep and some pretty good cheese, is a technological backwater, worships an inbred "royal" family (seriously? It's 2015, folks, might be time to get rid of those ridiculous twits), still largely clings to an archaic socio economic based system upon who your great great grandparents were (as opposed to you actual ability- no wonder Britain has been fading for so long, while the USA, which is largely merit based, thrives), and goes berserk over "football," a sport they invented (but can't play worth a damn) is just sooooo sophisticated.
My ancestors had the sense to leave the fading British Empire well over 100 years ago to find better opportunities in the USA. I love to visit. It's nice to see a country that largely hasn't changed in 100 years. It's slow, quaint, cute. But far from important.
Clarkson is a buffoon. An entertaining buffoon, to be sure (well, he's entertaining when he's not out bullying/slugging people he disagrees with, anyway). Top Gear is one of the few UK shows I actually watch on occasion.
BTW, that big, dumpy, blowhard, bully, Brit (Clarkson) also hates bicyclists.
FWIW, I don't drive and F150, I prefer my Chevy Silverado.
Final point, that extremely tricked out F150 is NOT one you will find on the roads very often. Not a lot of people (Americans or otherwise) drive 380+ HP vehicles. Frankly, if an American were to spend that kind of money on a pickup, he'd probably just buy the F350 instead.