IDK what op is annoyed by in particular, everyone with any interest in cars has their own bone to pick with the way the regs are structured. Personally, I'm fr

IDK what op is annoyed by in particular, everyone with any interest in cars has their own bone to pick with the way the regs are structured. Personally, I'm frustrated you can't produce something like a 1990 NA Miata anymore or the tiny pickups that also existed around then like the Ranger or even a Hilux. Oddly enough the EPA is largely responsible for pickups growing into the size of dump trucks lately. They mandate anything vaguely car sized to have very stringent efficiency performance but if you just make the vehicle into a "light truck" those laws don't apply. As a result everything needs to be built like an absolute tank to survive a crash with these behemoths.