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Wow! I am sorry if I touched a nerve here, but the Govt. regs. I was referring to, are the exact ones that were mentioned back at me about the Japanese "Mini Trucks" making them too expensive to have here. I am referring to the Kei trucks, not old little Toyota or Datsuns. They were very good trucks, but were not in the "Mini" Kei class. It would be nice to have a vehicle for every purpose, but that's three vehicles to insure, register, park ( many HOAs will not allow multiple vehicles outside), maintain, and originally to produce. I am not saying everyone "needs" a (name the suv) but in many cases they do make sense, sorry.
Growing up, we always had a SUV, whether it was a 51 or 61 GMC pick up with a camper, or a 65 Chevy Suburban, or a Dodge Ramcharger. The Dodge was a daily driver and took the place of 3 vehicles.
On plowed roads you can drive most anything, in the sand, rocks, wash's, and up unplowed trails, pulling trailers, trees out of the road, etc. No one vehicle works as good as a 4x4 truck.
This is why I am here, try to make our existing vehicles "better",
and to come up with new vehicle from scratch, which will take a large step forward, sorry if that offends.
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