Guys who buy new trucks are usually posers who are too dumb to build and engine or transmission or design a suspension. I notice they tend to want some look or image, especially for new lifted trucks with all the bolt on accessories. Get to know any reasonably well and they'll cry a river about the payments. It's both funny and sad.
Don't ASSume anyone who makes a different choice than you is some sort of idiot or "poser" or broke.
I'm a multimillionaire who drives a full sized truck (Chevy Silverado), bought new, and I love it.
I'm probably smart enough to "build and engine" [sic] since I have two engineering degrees and an MBA, but why would I unless I absolutely had to? See, that's why I got those degrees, so I would have enough money to hire people like you to do the grunt work, should I need any done.
Why do I prefer my truck to a car?
Mostly, I prefer the way a truck rides to a car. I'm a big guy, and I prefer the upright seating, as opposed to slumping down on the floor (as is the case with car seating). I also like that trucks have a much better view of the road (larger windows, you are up higher). I can't stand driving my wife's little Beemer (and she can't stand driving my truck, to each his own, I guess).
And yeah, they come in handy. A lot. It ain't easy to pick up anything from Home Depot in my wife's car, but with a truck, it's easy. Or helping people move. Hell, I even helped my company move, twice. Both times when the move was over, they let me haul away a bunch of free furniture that was left over. I'll never need to buy office furniture again. I couldn't have done that with my wife's little passenger car.
We also do a lot of work with animal rescue organizations. You can fit, maybe, two medium sized dog crates in the back seat of a passenger car, and it's a difficult to shove them in there. Plus you have to worry about keeping the upholstery clean. God forbid the dog takes a piss in someones passenger car. My truck can take 8, easily, it's easy to load and unload, and if a dog pisses in it, I just wipe the bed down, no big deal.
About the only thing I don't like about my truck is the poor gas mileage. But given that I don't drive a lot of miles in it, it's not really a problem.
Oh yeah, one more thing, trucks hold their resale value VERY well, at least here in Texas. Much better than passenger cars. My truck is more than 13 years old, and still worth about 40% of what I paid for it (a car typically loses 60% of it's value in 5 years).
When this one starts to have mechanical problems (it runs great right now), I'll probably get another pickup.