[misterp266]

Have you wondered why nobody offers a small pick up truck anymore? They will lie and tell you that there’s no demand. Every year trucks get bigger and bigger even if they have a 5’ useless bed. They are also priced out of reach for a lot of people. No more basic small regular cab pick up with a 6’ bed that the majority of people could afford.
I own a 2011 Colorado regular cab short bed. I no longer need a big truck but I still want a truck. Now it needs to last forever because of the convoluted CAFE rules that all manufacturers need to follow. The basic formula is, wheelbase times track divided by 144 to give you the trucks “footprint”. Plot that against the graph below and you’ll see why small trucks no longer work. My Colorado footprint is 44.4. In 2023 that would be required to get about 41MPG. It gets about 20.
The bigger the footprint, the lower the MPG requirement.
It’s wrong!