JohnRE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116346067756504687
The irony here is that people mostly buy pickups in the UK as a tax dodge. Modern pickups are as nice inside as normal cars and can carry as many people. So if you’re self employed you can get one and if it meets the requirements it counts as a commercial vehicle and you can pay less tax.
This is why you don’t see as many Ford Ranger Raptors (the high end ‘cool’ one) because the extra ‘Raptor’ bits mean it’s payload capacity is too low to count.
Close that loophole and they’d (mostly) vanish.