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** It could simply be the best he can afford. The guy is making next to no money in his contractually-obligated role and is barely given any support by the state, the hospital he sort-of works for or Maurice.
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** Also, it was 1990. The massive SUV was not nearly as commonplace as it is today. There were plenty of big cars, and tough cars, sure, but they were vastly outnumbered by more standard vehicles rather than being a huge part of the market. Remember, ''RoboCop'' only came out three years earlier, and at that time a big gas-guzzling SUV was still seen as enough of a city slicker anomaly as to be worthy of ridicule.
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** Also, it was 1990. The massive SUV was not nearly as commonplace as it is today. There were plenty of big cars, and tough cars, sure, but they were vastly outnumbered by more standard vehicles rather than being a huge part of the market. Remember, ''RoboCop'' ''Film/RoboCop1987'' only came out three years earlier, and at that time a big gas-guzzling SUV was still seen as enough of a city slicker anomaly as to be worthy of ridicule.
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A 20-year-old, TWO-WHEEL-DRIVE pickup to reach remote patients in rural Alaska with? This is one of those applications where a big SUV actually makes sense- 4WD to reach remote locations, plenty of flat space inside the heated interior to lay someone out in if necessary. Sure, mission creep is an issue as there's probably not the budget for a full-fledged ambulance, but still...
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** Also, it was 1990. The massive SUV was not nearly as commonplace as it is today. There were plenty of big cars, and tough cars, sure, but they were vastly outnumbered by more standard vehicles rather than being a huge part of the market. Remember, ''RoboCop'' only came out three years earlier, and at that time a big gas-guzzling SUV was still seen as enough of a city slicker anomaly as to be worthy of ridicule.
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*** Just having a wood stove isn't THAT unusual in Alaska (and has the major up side of not failing like a furnace fan if a storm takes out your power.)
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**The state pretty much washed its hands of Joel - they had too many doctors in their little scholarship program and unloaded Joel onto Maurice. Maurice didn't really care about Joel's actual performance of his duties as a doctor. He just wanted to be able to sell the town as having a doctor. Notice that Maurice put Joel in a disgusting run down office space with no competent support staff and got him a rat infested house where the only heat source (in Alaska!) was a wood stove. I was always under the impression that Joel had the terrible run-down truck because that was all that he could afford with his own money while living as an indentured servant.