They’re not banned. I live in the country and there’s a lot of Dodge Rams, Ford Rangers (and the odd Fx50 imports round here.

UK is also the spiritual home of the Land Rover, and those fuckers are insanely big now. The ionos grenadier is a beast also…

The argument is almost always “I need it to tow”/drive it over field a hill but it’s typically some farm lad running it on red diesel and claiming it’s for farm purposes (on his way to or from the pub)…