>>Your residential or city dweller certainly doesn't need those vehicles, however, if you live on a ranch and have to carry fencing or other equipment around, you may very well need one (not the hummer of course :o)
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>Goodness. We'd better ship some trailers over asap.
> I had no idea hitching things onto the back of your vehicle or using what we like to call roof bars was unknown over there.

It actually is unknown. Over the years there I got the impression that vast majority of Americans have very little clue about packing things, or generally lack the skill to maneuver things into tight spaces. They never had to - they were told they need a bigger car/house/bag instead, and they believed what they were told.