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Originally Posted by jamesqf
The curious thing is that though the trucks have gotten larger, as far as I can tell without a tape measure, the beds are still the same size.
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Instead of engineering some efficient solution to deal with the safety, emissions and fuel-efficiency requirements, it's just easier to beef everything up and hope the rednecks would be fool enough to bite the bait and keep buying those gas hogs for a higher price, even though their payload ends up lower than the one of a typical European compact van. The regulations remain favoring full-size trucks, even though most of their utilitarian purpose is long gone and they've been turning into an exercise of gross excess. It's really quite odd to figure out that a Diesel-powered version of a compact truck is not so easy to make compliant to EPA standards while a full-size which is more energy-intensive to manufacture and operate is favored.