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Originally Posted by mcrews
Didn't know toyo had a full size pickup in 88???
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Toyota's had a useful-sized pickup since at least 1968. (The 'Stout' - I owned one in the mid-'70s.) What they haven't had until fairly recently is a bloated equivalent to the American "full-sized"* pickup. The strange thing is that I have friends who own these "full-sized" trucks, yet I can haul as much or more than they ever do, and go places they don't even think of going.
So if the goal is really to improve fuel economy, it would seem more sensible to simply build smaller, and spend some money marketing that.
*A bit of double-speak that always reminds me of the marketers who refer to fat women as "full-figured".