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Even within the limited segment that does actually 'need' a truck, American trucks are unnecessarily large. I drive a pickup every day at work, I was still shoc
by eigenvector 8y ago
Even within the limited segment that does actually 'need' a truck, American trucks are unnecessarily large. I drive a pickup every day at work, I was still shocked when I went to Texas seeing a half-ton pickup truck be the default vehicle everywhere.
The Toyota Hilux, probably the most common working pickup truck in the world, would look like a toy in a suburban American mall parking lot.
- NegativeLatency 8y agoYou can thank the US government for that. :/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
- rasz 8y agoEighties-nineties Toyota Hilux maybe, those do look like toys compared to 2018 model. Modern Hilux is just as fat as any other US truck.
- anfilt 8y agoI really hate how big trucks are in the US. I wish there were something slightly bigger than a Kei truck. I would really like a something like that.
- thrower123 8y agoBlame emissions standards. They effectively killed everything in the Ford Ranger, Chevy S10 size range, and pushed the survivors up into the size parameters of what an 80s or 90s half-ton pickup used to be, if perhaps not the weight, due to steel vs aluminium/plastic construction. Notably, modern Toyota Tacomas dwarf their predecessors.