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Get a Life, Get a Truck.(Column)
Byline: Rich Ceppos
The vehicle-reviewing business is awfully good these days. With about 1600 different models on sale, there is a mother lode of new-and- improved to keep up with. It's a hard job, but we do it for the public good.
On any given day, our cave-like parking garage at One AutoWeek Tower houses at least a dozen and a half vehicles. The variety is staggering. Their sporting intentions are manifold.
New GMC Yukons parked next to Porsche Carreras. Lexus IS 350s nuzzled up to Hyundai Sonatas. And always the BMWs, Audis, Benzes, Dodges, Fords and their high-performance variants. A vehicle for every mood and every need.
My most recent need was to haul stuff during the Memorial Day weekend. So when I went to the sign-out book in search of a truck, what did I find?
A bunch of staffers had beaten me to it. No one had laid claim to any of the hot iron downstairs. It was the trucks that had gone first.
This is telling. A garage full of sex-mobiles, and the beasts of burden are the first picks.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Get a Life, Get a Truck.(Column)