Top Gear claimed that this is the best selling car in the world...

If Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear asked that what is the best selling car in the world, chances are you'd get it wrong because the best selling car in the world ISN'T ACTUALLY A CAR.

This pickup truck doesn't work in Britain!

It was actually the Ford F150 and you wouldn't guess it that this isn't a car but this is a business phenomenon. There are more F-Series pickup trucks in the world than there are Australians. They sell nearly a million of these every year and that's a 107 an hour. Unlike the VW Beetle or the Toyota Corolla, they sell 107 an hour in North America, meaning that someone's buying now, and now, and now, and now, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. In general, we buy everything American; from their food, beverages, TV shows, music, and we even buy them on their walls, but we don't buy their pickup trucks. Why is that? We'll find out at the end...

This pickup truck doesn't work offroad!

This here is the Ford F-150 SVT Lightning that was launched in 1999 and it comes with substantial suspension modifications. The 5.4L V8 engine comes with a supercharger and it churns out 380HP and 0-60mph in 5.8 seconds. This leviathan beast will outrun a German sports car and with the supercharger, it sounds like a jet engine! But the question is, why don't we buy it? Here in America, everyone who walked in the countryside will be eaten by wild animals so they need a car with a gun rack but here in the Philippines, it's not. Here in America, everyone has a dream of being an outdoorsman, where as we really don't have that dream.

In America, when you want some logs with fire, you load your truck with chainsaws and headed out in the forest. What we do is going in the shops. What I'm picturing in my head now is that I went at the Festival Supermall in Filinvest, Alabang. I went shopping for some clothes, then going at the Comic Alley to see some anime figures, posters, and something something. Later, I went to see some movies. And then, I went for some grocery shopping at SHOPWISE. Yep, we're finished shopping at Festival Supermall but it really doesn't make sense for this pickup. Also, this truck is rather thirsty and quite large in European roads. You can't also bring it offroad because this is a RWD or because you might scratch the paint. There is also one small reason why we don't need a pickup truck and the main one was this; IT'S RUBBISH!

This is actually made with technology that was familiar to any 19th century tunneling contractor. It has a ladder chassis which is made from old shovels, the brake discs are the size of milk bottle tops and the interior doesn't match.

Like what the good old pioneers do...

Pickup trucks like the Ford F150 doesn't work in the Philippines because we're a bit more sophisticated and the only way this Ford F150 SVT Lightning work is at Gran Turismo 5 because in this game, it's a bit more quirky than that....

*With thanks to Jeremy Clarkson