Not ever. But apparently there's some new model called the Champ that starts around 10k, and has people who want simple trucks raging out. For good reason, it's a solid looking simple truck.
We’ll need to fire all the industry plants in the EPA before we can legally have a small (fuel efficient) truck here in US. Our emissions laws were written by Big Truck.
This isn't argumentative. Do you have anything i can look at to see why the EPA et al would not want a light, cheap, fuel efficient truck?
is it capture by Ford and GM? Are there even trucks as small as the Nissans that had the 2400 motors (or 2600)? I live near enough texas that every truck is way too big, so i don't see many new, small trucks. A lot of people have the old, nearly all metal, small trucks.
Right, because the EPA has made them illegal in favor of larger, less fuel efficient trucks. This paper covers the topic well^, you can also see many examples searching online for “EPA Small Truck Footprint”.
Hey, thanks for replying! I read the title of that paper and immediately knew what it was going to prove. I have a recollection about this from 10 years ago, but for some reason it didn't comport with "it's the EPA's fault we can't have nice things"
you'd think the https://www.nhtsa.gov/ would have something to say about regulations encouraging increased "box height" or grille height; which results in worse outcomes in nearly all accidents (could be all, but i don't feel comfortable asserting that.)
