Driving in Hawaii

Is it me or is the Ford Explorer not a big car? A little over a year ago I would have thought so too, but not any more. It came to me the other day as I was sitting in the traffic that no, the Ford Explorer is not a particularly big car. The Dodge Ram Truck, GM Sierra Pickup, the Toyota Tundra and Hummer among many others make the Ford Explorer appear rather small! Back home I thought it was considered a fully fledged 4WD but over here it only attains SUV status.

The pickup is king! Oahu has a population of just under 1 million and somehow there is one car for each person (which you realise is not a lie when you get stuck on the H1 during peak hour). Extrapolating even further every second driveway has at least one pickup in it and it is not unusual to see two. Doing the math ……... well I'm not that smart but it equals a lot of extremely big cars. In Australia I used to marvel at the size of the Ford F150 of which you would see once a month, here every second or third car (truck) is at least that size if not bigger.

The funny thing is that the pickup truck appears relatively normal on the roads of Hawaii. The monster truck is something that I thought only ever appeared at the speedway or on the Simpson’s. The unmistakable sound of the monster truck tires whirring only serves to complement the surreal look of a car that you need a ladder to enter!