Ahmed writes: “Red, I am shopping for a new pickup truck. Should I go with a foreign or domestic model?”

Ask Red says: The line between want is foreign made and what’s home grown is blurred these days. Toyotas and Nissans are built in the states while Chevy, Ford and Dodge makes – what we think of as domestic – are half breeds with many of the components produced in Canada, Mexico and beyond. Choosing the right one depends on your lifestyle. If your one that likes to tow double-wide trailers or fully-loaded cement trucks through rings of fire and up ramps that lead to nowhere, then a Chevy or Ford is in order (at least that’s what the company’s TV commercials tells us). Got the stump of a Sequoia tree you need to wrap a chain around and yank from the ground, go with the Dodge Ram. But in my book, the baddest pickup truck on the planet is made by Toyota. Think about it, whenever we see news reels of insurgents in Somalia, Libya, Sudan and other “religion of peace” regions they are always loaded in the back of Toyotas swinging machine guns from side to side. Newsweek even dubbed them “Guerilla Trucks” in an October article. Let the good old boys keep the trucks with the “Pissing Calvin” window stickers. I’ll take one that comes with its own Howitzer any time.