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Not when you're on a scooter, I would think.

Having been to both (but not having driven a scooter in Atlanta) I'd suggest scooting around Paris is very different than scooting around Atlanta.

In the past 20 years or so we’ve seen the emergence of car-based SUVs and minivans, but large (and at one time, all) SUVs and vans are trucks with modified bodies.

They're a long shot from the big lifted pickups though

Car-based SUVs are not like trucks. All of the full size trucks sold in NA have SUV counterparts also on the road, and they are exactly like trucks.

For example, the Wagoneer is the SUV version of the RAM.

The Suburban and Tahoe are the SUV versions of GM trucks.

The Land Cruiser, Sequoia, and Lexus LX are the same platform as the Tundra.

Etc.

Automakers don’t do one-off light trucks. They are all shared platforms.

>"We're basically a truck market," said Denis Ducharme,

And, I mean... I lived there. Saw many more trucks than anything else on the road.

https://www.calgary.ca/roads/conditions/traffic-cameras.html

Traffic camera feeds suggest this is not the case by a long shot? I don't have a particular stake in this race though.