The Dodge Dakota was only made between 1987 and 2011. The S-10 was made from 1981 to 2004, and the Ranger was made from 1983 to 2012. I think they were all discontinued for safety reasons due to their small size, and I know the resale value on them was high last I checked.
The other models listed have basically always been around and still are. What is up with small trucks and their drivers getting DUIs??
It does, but there's been a trend from car makers to make bigger and heavier trucks for years. I don't think there's been a real light truck on the US market for like a decade or more. They just keep getting bigger and more expensive and driving in to the luxury car bracket.
A buddy of mine was able to get his hands on the new maverick and I was able to drive it around. The thing is itty bitty. I had to move my motorcycle mid winter cus someone was trying to steal it and the bed fit the bike perfectly and drove great with the load.
On top of that he averages Prius fuel economy around town because its the hybrid model and can go like 5-600 miles on a tank. Its not as neat as an old single cab ranger or tacoma but it certainly punches above its weight class. I really hope more people realize they don't need their big trucks and opt for a maverick.
They got killed because rollover protection standards got stricter and it would have been harder to re-design the smaller, existing platforms for those than to just build bigger trucks, and the fact that larger vehicles have looser fuel economy requirements meant that small, fuel efficient trucks were less profitable.
What is up with small trucks and their drivers getting DUIs??
They're all pretty common as fleet vehicles (and also I believe the Grummann LLV postal truck is technically an S-10 depending on how they're collecting the data) in and they were all generally less expensive on the used market in like the mid-2000's. So I guess it'd be a function of having lots of them around being driven a lot more than anything else.
The Dodge Dakota was only made between 1987 and 2011. The S-10 was made from 1981 to 2004, and the Ranger was made from 1983 to 2012. I think they were all discontinued for safety reasons due to their small size, and I know the resale value on them was high last I checked.
The other models listed have basically always been around and still are. What is up with small trucks and their drivers getting DUIs??
Didn't compact trucks get killed off because of the Chicken Tax?
I thought that only affected imported compact trucks? I don't really know
It does, but there's been a trend from car makers to make bigger and heavier trucks for years. I don't think there's been a real light truck on the US market for like a decade or more. They just keep getting bigger and more expensive and driving in to the luxury car bracket.
A buddy of mine was able to get his hands on the new maverick and I was able to drive it around. The thing is itty bitty. I had to move my motorcycle mid winter cus someone was trying to steal it and the bed fit the bike perfectly and drove great with the load.
On top of that he averages Prius fuel economy around town because its the hybrid model and can go like 5-600 miles on a tank. Its not as neat as an old single cab ranger or tacoma but it certainly punches above its weight class. I really hope more people realize they don't need their big trucks and opt for a maverick.
They got killed because rollover protection standards got stricter and it would have been harder to re-design the smaller, existing platforms for those than to just build bigger trucks, and the fact that larger vehicles have looser fuel economy requirements meant that small, fuel efficient trucks were less profitable.
They're all pretty common as fleet vehicles (and also I believe the Grummann LLV postal truck is technically an S-10 depending on how they're collecting the data) in and they were all generally less expensive on the used market in like the mid-2000's. So I guess it'd be a function of having lots of them around being driven a lot more than anything else.