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The case against American truck bloat
- EricE 6y agoJust thinking how much better this article would have been if Twitter didn't exist. Despite that, I to find it annoying that all the true mini trucks have disappeared and the author nailed it - larger vehicles are extremely profitable. Normally competition would solve this, but unfortunately we are left with the chicken tax - that lingers to this day and prevents true competition. Hyundai, Mahindra and many others have very cool mini trucks that the stupid chicken tax is effectively blocking. Lacking competition, the currently entrenched truck makers have all decided to stop producing cheaper trucks and here we are. https://www.thoughtco.com/chicken-tax-4159747 https://www.thoughtco.com/chicken-tax-4159747 It's why the Subaru Brat had seats in the bed. Indeed, that's not the only impact of this inane tariff. I would encourage folks to search themselves - ironically Ford got hit with complications of this stupid law and had to ship vans with seats and then rip them out. It's a perfect exercise of unintended consequences and in general a poster child for why less regulation is often better unless you have a REALLY effective process to iterate and refine over time said regulations.