To add to what others said, it used to be that the absurd pickup trucks were all customized. Someone would take a truck as produced and sold by the manufacturer

To add to what others said, it used to be that the absurd pickup trucks were all customized. Someone would take a truck as produced and sold by the manufacturer and add "lift-kits", maybe modify fenders, and add huge wheels and tires for some off-road purpose. Or just for the image of some off-road purpose. These would not always be street-legal but there wasn't much enforcement and it wasn't a high percentage of all the vehicles on the road. Trucks roam the streets today, in their factory configuration, that make those lifted 4x4 trucks from 30-40 years ago seem like reduced scale toys. It's madness. The most cartoonish, distorted adolescent fantasy proportions have been mainstreamed and normalized over decades. It's a Truck Body Dysmorphic disorder.