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.
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.