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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
 That's what I'm saying. It's exactly what everyone asks GM for but nobody seems to like it.
The car-based utes basically are the S-10 and Sonoma of today. There really isn't a market for compact trucks anymore. Hell even the midsize truck market is a gamble, Ford isn't too keen on resurrecting their midsize program or bringing the global Ranger to the NA market. |
Well, with Ford & Dodge out of the game everybody else can get a bigger slice of the pie now.
I think the main problem that the smaller trucks face is was an engineering push to 'go bigger' -higher towing, more payload, bigger engines, etc. But from anything I've heard, people who want smaller trucks generally weren't asking for improvements there. They want something with a bed for oversized/bulk cargo (its hard to haul gravel in an SUV) or maybe they've got a snowmobile/jet ski or something that only weighs a few hundred pounds. They don't need a truck thats capable of towing 3 tons (let alone the 4 or 5 ton capacity of some half ton pickups). By and large, they wanted something that was efficient & small enough to not be cumbersome when driving around in town.