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I'm 6'4" and have driven tons of cars and owned a few. Stepping into a proper pickup was the first time I thought "oh, a vehicle designed for me." I'm also a carpenter, so it is essential to my work. Memes like this are low hanging fruit.
Yes, we do have a size problem in the USA. Is everyone that drives one of these trucks a selfish, tiny-dicked, backwards-thinking asshole? No, and honestly, the majority of the people that I know are like me and need a work vehicle like this. More than half of them are in a union. We can point out the absurdity of the size wars when it comes to American vehicle design, but stop picking on pickup trucks.
I'm 6'4" as well and I fit in just about everything that's not clearly a compact car. I fit fairly well in Honda and Toyota sedans, and drove a Civic until 2018, when I bought a Tesla Model 3. That was okay, I fit but it's low, too low for my tall legs really getting in and out Traded that in recently and got a Polestar 3, which is a larger SUV.
Big work vehicles aren't the issue, as long as they're used for that purpose, it's the pavement princesses that are the problem. The ones that rarely or possibly even have never seen a day or work. They're all over the place.
There are a lot of owners of these pickups that use them as their primary vehicle and grocery getter. Then they try to justify needing the truck because of the two days a year they actually use the bed to bring something back from Home Depot or towing a trailer. Both of which have daily alternatives available either through a rental company or from the store itself.
You tall folks should pick VW New Beetles. An average-sized person can wear a top hat while driving one of those because the roof is so domed.
(If you must drive at all, of course -- obviously, the real best choice is a bicycle with infinite headroom.)
I'm 6'4 and easily fit in my mx-5. And you know for a fact at least 90% of those trucks are grocery getters "because I like to drive up high, it makes me feel safer, and more of a shitbag"
Plenty of tall people drive small cars. Can't you just use a smaller truck?
Amen.