Unfortunately compact pickups aren’t really a thing any more.
As a homeowner and a parent this would be a great vehicle for me — having the utility of a truck bed.
Not everyone that owns a home does work on it themselves but trucks are very useful. Today my only options are rent a truck or put a trailer hitch on my van and pull a trailer when I need to haul stuff. That’s so much more hassle.
Honestly, I'm not handy at all and I've only owned my home for a couple of years, but the desire for something with a truck bed grows more every summer, it's just so damn useful to be able to do something as simple as pick up a lawn mower or a ladder or not worry about the size of the flat pack we're getting from Ikea.
I do quite a bit of DIY and I have a skoda octavia combi (which would be considered small in the US). honestly the only thing i have difficulty with is drywall panels, i have to tie them to the roof bars.
obviously a truck would be much easier, but if I'm redoing a house I'll need to rent a light dump truck anyway for at least 1-2 days just to get all the old junk out, so I do the big material buy at the same time
As a homeowner and a parent this would be a great vehicle for me — having the utility of a truck bed.
Not everyone that owns a home does work on it themselves but trucks are very useful. Today my only options are rent a truck or put a trailer hitch on my van and pull a trailer when I need to haul stuff. That’s so much more hassle.