This one isn’t directly about cars, but it does go some way to explaining the mentality of people that buy giant trucks that have never been used for any sort of work. That is, people who live in cities but identify as “rural” people.

Academic sources linked in the video:

• A comparison between perceived rurality and established geographic rural status among Indiana residents.

• Self-identified rurality in a nationally representative population in the US.

• Concordance of Rural-Urban Self-identity and ZIP Code-Derived Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) Designation

• Rural Identity as a Contributing Factor to Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.