Why are Americans so obsessed with pickup trucks?

Go to Google maps and enter street veiw in a random town or city in Europe and you won’t see a single pickup truck. You’ll see vans, box trucks, land rovers, but no pickup trucks. Mostly, what you see is identical compact cars.

Now enter street view in a random town or city in the US and you see pickup trucks galore. I count things like Suburbans, Blazers and Escalades as pickup trucks because anyone who owns one, calls it a truck.