I think i saw someone say in the US a “commercial small truck” is exempt from various regulations (efficiency /pollution or something ) that apply to “cars”, so end up more expensive for that too.
This is true; “light truck” is the classification.
Basically, it would have been annoying and more expensive for car manufacturers to meet the standards, so they just started producing and promoting a bunch of vehicles like SUVs that technically classify as light trucks and thus are exempt from them. American consumers are American and thus love dumb big things for the sake of being big, so that was a pretty good gamble.
Yes, there are loopholes for “commercial vehicles” that aren’t regulated as strictly, which is why pickups keep getting bigger and have such bad efficiency
It also creates weird counter-incentives, like no small/mid pickups. Manufacturers don’t want to build small to mid sized pickups because they would be subject to more stringent efficiency, emissions , and safety regulations, whereas large ones are not
Also those fuel efficient vehicles got more expensive to make up for sales.
I think i saw someone say in the US a “commercial small truck” is exempt from various regulations (efficiency /pollution or something ) that apply to “cars”, so end up more expensive for that too.
This is true; “light truck” is the classification.
Basically, it would have been annoying and more expensive for car manufacturers to meet the standards, so they just started producing and promoting a bunch of vehicles like SUVs that technically classify as light trucks and thus are exempt from them. American consumers are American and thus love dumb big things for the sake of being big, so that was a pretty good gamble.
Yes, there are loopholes for “commercial vehicles” that aren’t regulated as strictly, which is why pickups keep getting bigger and have such bad efficiency
It also creates weird counter-incentives, like no small/mid pickups. Manufacturers don’t want to build small to mid sized pickups because they would be subject to more stringent efficiency, emissions , and safety regulations, whereas large ones are not
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Maverick, probably. Comes in FWD hybrid. Love mine.
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