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With news that the Ford Ranger and the Dodge Dakota are moving to a mid size truck next year and Toyota and Nissan having already stopped making their pickup tucks there are now next to zero pickups left. They only pickup truck that I can think of that still exists is the Chevy S10.
Why is the pickup truck going extinct? They serve as a useful tool that fills a certain niche unlike anything else. If you don't need 4 wheel drive and want something that gets good gas mileage with a 6ft bed for a reasonable price, a pickup is the perfect fit. A pickup is something to just drive around town and lug some wood or furniture or make a dump run with, but today's choices only offer overpriced, over sized, gas guzzling mid size trucks.
If I were Honda, I would come out with a small 4 cylinder pick up truck and fill the void in the pickup market, thoughts?
Where do you get your info from? Toyota and Nissan are still making pickups and will be for a very long time. The Tacoma is the #1 selling mid-sized on the market. The Ford Ranger is gone from the US market for now. The new one will only be available overseas. Don't know anything about the Dodge. The Chevy doesn't make the S10 and hasn't in many years. The pickup is the Colorado which is mediocre at best.
With news that the Ford Ranger and the Dodge Dakota are moving to a mid size truck next year and Toyota and Nissan having already stopped making their pickup tucks there are now next to zero pickups left. They only pickup truck that I can think of that still exists is the Chevy S10.
Why is the pickup truck going extinct? They serve as a useful tool that fills a certain niche unlike anything else. If you don't need 4 wheel drive and want something that gets good gas mileage with a 6ft bed for a reasonable price, a pickup is the perfect fit. A pickup is something to just drive around town and lug some wood or furniture or make a dump run with, but today's choices only offer overpriced, over sized, gas guzzling mid size trucks.
If I were Honda, I would come out with a small 4 cylinder pick up truck and fill the void in the pickup market, thoughts?
I hear station wagons with fake wood paneling might be going out of favor as well as the El Camino and Ranchero.
With news that the Ford Ranger and the Dodge Dakota are moving to a mid size truck next year and Toyota and Nissan having already stopped making their pickup tucks there are now next to zero pickups left. They only pickup truck that I can think of that still exists is the Chevy S10.
Why is the pickup truck going extinct? They serve as a useful tool that fills a certain niche unlike anything else. If you don't need 4 wheel drive and want something that gets good gas mileage with a 6ft bed for a reasonable price, a pickup is the perfect fit. A pickup is something to just drive around town and lug some wood or furniture or make a dump run with, but today's choices only offer overpriced, over sized, gas guzzling mid size trucks.
If I were Honda, I would come out with a small 4 cylinder pick up truck and fill the void in the pickup market, thoughts?
Because V6 powered V6 small pickups have almost reached full size trucks in price and (low) MPG, so there's hardly any reason to buy a small truck.
Truck sizing has become like pizza sizing. I rent full size pickups for work, and drive my '95 F150 to the rental place. New full size trucks absolutely dwarf mine, (especially the Toyota) both inside and out. When I took my truck to a Ford dealer for a recall, I sat in a new Ranger. It was significantly larger than the '87 I bought new. So the old small doesn't exist, the new small is the old medium, and the old large is like a new medium. But the new large is actually huge, so I don't know how that fits in.
As an aside Enterprise told me that they no longer rent mid size trucks, because no one really wanted them any more.
I think there is still a market for a basic but nice 4 cylinder small truck. But it has to be priced properly. When they climb past $20K, there's no point in buying one. There was another thread on this.
Truck sizing has become like pizza sizing. I rent full size pickups for work, and drive my '95 F150 to the rental place. New full size trucks absolutely dwarf mine, (especially the Toyota) both inside and out. When I took my truck to a Ford dealer for a recall, I sat in a new Ranger. It was significantly larger than the '87 I bought new. So the old small doesn't exist, the new small is the old medium, and the old large is like a new medium. But the new large is actually huge, so I don't know how that fits in.
Its amazing how small the small trucks were when they first came out. The Datsun, Chevy Luv, Ford Courier and the Mazda. I don't think the engines reached 2 litres.
Death of the Pickup truck would bring America to a crawling halt. If anything, smaller pickup trucks are loosing demand due to cost fast aprouching full size truck prices.
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