The guy who made it explicitly rejected a van for his purposes. Maybe we should let him decide how to do his job?
Your argument is the extreme minority who make this decision differently than everyone, exclusively limited to countries that have heavy government incentives to do so, being free to make an impractical choice somehow is rational because they are free to make a decision. Surely you can appreciate why I can’t accept that as an argument for why that demonstrates it’s a suitable vehicle for that purpose.
. . . very small niche of of tradesmen . . .How many niches does it take when, all together, they’re no longer niche cases?
Most people would argue a majority. Even if we relax it to something more common like, at least a quarter of tradesmen in more than 2 developed countries, this example wouldn’t qualify as more than niche. I mean, the actual hard to swallow fact is tradesmen almost definitely wouldn’t prefer pickup trucks without the extreme tax advantages in the US/CAN biasing towards them, as is evidenced by countries where the government handouts aren’t so generous.
The guy who made it explicitly rejected a van for his purposes. Maybe we should let him decide how to do his job?
How many niches does it take when, all together, they’re no longer niche cases?
Your argument is the extreme minority who make this decision differently than everyone, exclusively limited to countries that have heavy government incentives to do so, being free to make an impractical choice somehow is rational because they are free to make a decision. Surely you can appreciate why I can’t accept that as an argument for why that demonstrates it’s a suitable vehicle for that purpose.
Most people would argue a majority. Even if we relax it to something more common like, at least a quarter of tradesmen in more than 2 developed countries, this example wouldn’t qualify as more than niche. I mean, the actual hard to swallow fact is tradesmen almost definitely wouldn’t prefer pickup trucks without the extreme tax advantages in the US/CAN biasing towards them, as is evidenced by countries where the government handouts aren’t so generous.