I don’t know Julia but I know the manufacturers kept making the big rigs more comfortable and powerful with leather seats and all the options. Cowboy Cadillacs. I think people liked the feeling of the power and superiority they felt driving them, instead of tooling around in a little teeny box. Whether advertising created the demand I just can’t say, but I find it difficult to believe advertising is that powerful. But maybe that’s because I like to think myself immune to the effects of advertising and rely more on product reviews etc.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.