Everything is bigger in Texas!

This is something you will see in quite a few places in Texas, especially on t-shirts: "Everything is bigger in Texas". Well, I don't know about 'everything', but the state surely is and the vehicles people drive surely are.

The state is too big. Being in Austin, which is almost at the center of the state, one needs to drive at least 5-6 hours to reach the state border in any direction.

Texans seem to love trucks. They want the biggest, baddest trucks even though they use it only to go to their office and HEB/Wal-mart. I think pulling a huge truck out of a narrow parking lot gives them a sort of kick. The people who park their shiny new BMWs/Hondas/Toyotas next to these trucks pray to the God the most! Some of the trucks, like Ford-350 and Dodge Ram 3500 are obscenely big. They are big enough to be run as city buses in Bangalore ;-) If Indians continue their new-found obsession with big cars, they may eventually sell such trucks in India. If that ever happens, I think bike riders will consider passing UNDERNEATH these monsters, just like they pass all around the small cars now. "Hey, how did the underbody of my Dodge truck get dents?"