I have heard people lamenting the loss of small trucks for 20 years. There has never been another one as small or as light as a Ford Ranger or Toyota RN Pickup from the 90s. Rangers stopped being made and the Tacoma that replaced the Pickup got larger every model year until it was bigger and heavier than the original Tundra. It really is ridiculous because people love the utility of those smaller, more efficient old trucks. (More efficient relative to their contemporaries, at the very least. Other efficiency improvements would have come to them as well, if they still existed as a category.) Not everyone wants a land barge.
A Renault Kangoo has twice the storage space as a F-150. One of those fits in the street parking spaces around here. The other sticks out a significant amount on all sides.
Big american SUVs are not only big. They are also just badly designed.
I bought a Ford Maverick a few weeks back and absolutely loving it. Itβs the size of what used to be the Ranger before the Ranger grew to be an F150, the F150 grew to be an F250, and so on.
