# Why Don't Asian People Drive Trucks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887 "2006-10-10T02:45:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/21 "2006-10-10T18:42:12Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu Tashoya] \ It’s because they’re all driving Mercedes Benzes and BMWs, and neither company makes trucks. \ [/QUOTE] I thought they drove cars because cars are generally faster, more manoeverable, and are better able to help them avoid being painted with wide brush-strokes… ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/22 "2006-10-10T18:48:04Z")
Lot’s of the Koreans around[here](http://www.ci.salisbury.md.us/) drive pick-em-up trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/23 "2006-10-10T23:01:40Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] I thought they drove cars because cars are generally faster, more manoeverable, and are better able to help them avoid being painted with wide brush-strokes… [/QUOTE] …and are vastly superior to trucks for purposes of drift racing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/24 "2006-10-11T00:15:42Z")
How many people in general drive trucks where you live, and what kinds of people are they? Are they young to middle-aged, or older? Do they have families, and do they live in homes with garages? Do you live somewhere suburban, urban, or rural? Are people there likely to hold jobs or have interests that would benefit from owning a truck? I would submit that if you live in an area where there aren’t many Asians, where people are likely to have families, in a large city, or in a community with a grayer population, there is more going on than “Asians don’t drive trucks.” Factors other than preference can dictate what you drive. For what it’s worth, my Asian parents, who live in Honolulu, use my dad’s pickup truck as their sole means of motorized transportation. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/25 "2006-10-11T00:27:27Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu Tashoya] It’s because they’re all driving Mercedes Benzes and BMWs, and neither company makes trucks. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: That’s such a retarded stereotype. (seriously, is that even a stereotype?) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/26 "2006-10-11T02:07:59Z")
Actually, the vast majority of Asians I’ve met will only drive Japanese cars. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/27 "2006-10-11T18:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] :rolleyes: That’s such a retarded stereotype. (seriously, is that even a stereotype?) [/QUOTE] Not really, though I did adapt it from a running joke my friends had in high school where it at least seemed like 90% of the Korean kids were dropped off by mothers driving Benzes. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/28 "2006-10-11T19:45:23Z")
Like AudreyK said, area matters. I moved to SEA from TX, and trucks are less common here than back in TX – so much that for a while there, I was counting the trucks I saw on the road every day (I have a ~40min commute each way) and shaking my head. In TX I’d have racked up high double digits easy with a similar commute. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/29 "2006-10-12T03:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Gozu Tashoya] \ It’s because they’re all driving Mercedes Benzes and BMWs, and neither company makes trucks. \ [/QUOTE] Someone forgot to tell [Mercedes Benz](http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/trucks.html) that. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/30 "2006-10-12T17:44:17Z")
[QUOTE=boytyperanma] Pick-ups are generaly bought and used by people that have a use for them. Most people wouldn’t buy one if it wasn’t needed in their line of work. [/QUOTE] Not around these parts. Pick-ups are a status symbol for the goat-ropers (aka drug store cowboys). It pisses me off for mutiple reasons: It’s driven up the cost of trucks until they cost more than cars. It’s encourages the manufacturers to build foo-foo trucks so that now, if you want a truck to do real work with, you have to special order it. So all the manufacturers come up with a ‘heavy-duty’ model. And then all of the goat-ropers trade in their un-sullied regular pickups for ‘heavy-duty’, diesel, 4x4 … You can just smell the testosterone as you drive down the freeway. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/31 "2006-10-12T19:12:20Z")
[QUOTE=Tully Mars] You can just smell the testosterone as you drive down the freeway. [/QUOTE] Not in mine, you can’t! 😃 But yes, jacked up, big tires, ridiculous sound system in a truck they’ll never get dirty. Pretty common around here too. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/32 "2006-10-12T22:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] Someone forgot to tell [Mercedes Benz](http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/trucks.html) that. [/QUOTE] You can’t get a Benz truck in North America. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887/33 "2006-10-24T15:06:59Z")
[QUOTE=Surreal] I’ve noticed that it seems to be extraordinarily rare for an ethnically Asian person to drive a pickup truck, but at the same time it seems to be remarkably common for a Caucasian person to possess a truck, even when there doesn’t appear to be any need for them to do so. Has this been your experiece as well? [/QUOTE] I never, _ever_ see Asians driving any vehicles from Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler, truck or otherwise. Most of the time, it’s Japanese brands, with a few driving German imports. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-asian-people-drive-trucks/375887.md?page=1)