Over the years, I have owned several pickup trucks. The most recent had a camper shell. This was very convenient for traveling. I could find any quiet place off the main road and get some sleep. Recently, I helped a friend look for a pickup. I discovered that modern pickups are bloated caricatures. Like drugstore cowboys, they're "all hat and no cattle".
You can't find a new pickup without a "crew cab", "club cab", or "extended cab". You can't find 'em. And every inch of the "super cab" either makes the bed shorter or the truck longer. To get a bed long enough to sleep in, you'll need a truck longer than the Titanic. It's hilarious to see the camper shells they sell for these. How do you sleep in there? Curl up in a fetal position? What?
"Oh no", you say, "They make pop ups that extend over the cab". Old school camper shells are one piece where the only moving part is the back window/hatch. Pop up shells need to, well, pop up, and they need some kind of folding platform to extend over the bed, and they still need a back window/hatch. That's a lotta moving parts, which can and will fail, not to mention the time it takes screwing around popping it up and breaking it back down. I'll be twenty miles down the road by the time you get that thing folded up.
This just sets me off about other undesireable features of modern cars. Wow, lookit that fancy computer screen! How you gonna turn off the heater in mid-July when the fancy screen goes on the fritz? What about when it's raining and the electric window doesn't wanna go up? Who really thinks starting and stopping the engine at every traffic light is good idea? You're wrong about that, maybe you should get an electric car where the battery can catch on fire. Finally, who needs internet in a goddam car? Sneaky corporate bastards are just using it to spy on you just like they do with your phone (you do have "share location" on your phone turned off, right?... right?... sigh...).
People buy pickups and 4wd cars these days to show off; "lookit me! I'm a cowboy! I go off-road!". From the shiny appearance of the fancy 4wds I see, maybe off-road means the driveway or the taco-bell drive through. Hey, it's your money, but unless you're pulling a horse trailer or hauling building materials, do you really need a road-raging behemoth that guzzles more gas than an army tank? Yeah, I don't think so. You could buy an old truck and restore it for less cash than you'd pay for that hillbilly pimpmobile.
(ridiculous truck generated with AI)