So yesterday I was talking about how there are no pickup trucks in Dubai (see Patriots), and then today I get behind a Ford F-150 on Al Wasl Road.

So, for the record, there are a handful of full-sized pickups here. Yes, "full-sized" as I'm not counting the little Toyotas and Mitsubishis that the workers drive.

Since the full-sized pickups are so rare you know that someone paid a lot of money to import them, probably from the States.

Not that there aren't plenty of huge honkin' SUVs out there. We have all sorts, from the Nissan Armadas to the Ford Expeditions to the Lincoln Navigators to the Cadillac Escalades to the Lexus LXs to the Volkswagen Touaregs to the Porsche Cayennes.

Tons of Toyota Land Cruisers, too, including something called the Toyota Prado, which I guess is the Lexus GX in the States.

But not too many trucks.

A few though.