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Originally Posted by SuperTrooper
If fleet sales drove the market you would be right, but the general public that buys the majority of these trucks wants more.
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Or perhaps the people who make decisions on what to build THINK (because of all that advertising from the other builders of oversize pickups) that people want more.
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Why did the Tacoma get bigger? Because that's what people wanted.
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Then how come I didn't buy one? And how come you still see a lot of the '80s models, like mine, out there on the roads? There are two sides to this: the truck makers built what they thought a lot of people wanted, but then people like me who wanted something even smaller could only buy what they offered.
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Nobody owns these vehicles because they didn't want them. You can't blame the automakers for giving the people what they want.
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Not so. Again, I can only buy what they chose to make. I want a small, two-seat hatchback that gets good gas mileage. If Detroit, and indeed the Japanese, don't choose to make such a car, I can't buy it no matter how much I want it.
The plain fact is that Detroit deliberately drove the market towards large vehicles with its advertising. When small cars like the Mini were offered here (against the conventional wisdom), they sold well.