the rise of American super-sized pick-up trucks in Australia

It’s a sunny winter morning in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and at the Tynan Motors car yard there are six monster US pick-ups in a row. They make even the nearby Jeeps, SUVs and regular utes look tiny. Most are RAM 1500s, which are huge enough, but to the right is an even bigger bopper, a RAM 2500. It’s well over six metres long, has a stonking great diesel V8 engine and weighs more than twice as much as a typical family SUV.

I’m…