Why a pickup?

Powerdude wrote:
The problem is that the manufacturers cheapen everything year after year, in an effort to cut costs.

So what once was considered good enough to tow something, is now automatically suspect, and what was once considered heavy duty, is now barely enough.

So now you have to spend more $$, or at least do some serious research, before you buy something as complex as a tow vehicle.

SUV's are supposed to fill a market niche, and that market niche is "family car".

That niche does not tow as frequently as truck people, and so the "family car/SUV" market research shows that, and thus it does not get the heavier duty components that trucks use (most of the time, not necessarily all of the time). So, you have to do your research.

Idk, I'm not that old man, but I must have missed the "quality" years back in the good old days. But what I remember is engines that lasted 100-150k tops, transmissions that lasted less miles than that and things like drum brakes and c rap rusted together.....or apart.
Not sure how a run of the mill _______(insert your favorite half ton pickup or SUV) with huge 4 wheel disks, 6-10 speed transmissions, 400hp and a chassis that is light years stiffer than any old "quality" pickup could be considered cheaply constructed.
Really, what was considered good enough to tow _______back in the day now suffers from a bunch of internet experts that never really worked vehciles to their breaking points and now have a wealth of knowledge and specifications and opinions at their fingertips to either tout or gripe about.

You give me a new Chevy Tahoe and you take a perfect factory condition 1978, 88 or 98 K10 suburban and guess which one will tow safer and with more authority up and down the hills.