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 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.