Our trucks really weren't always big like this, for example, a stock S10 from any model year in which they were produced in the US, is significantly smaller than a stock Colorado you can pick up off the lot right now.

And even as far as vans go, the whole point of the minivan was to have something that can seat a lot of people but still be smaller than both commercial work vans that had been converted for passenger use and station wagons which were the popular family haulers around the time that minivans launched here.

We went from actively *trying* to shrink things down with the likes of the K-cars which famously saved Chrysler from their initial bankruptcy in the early '80s, and even the early minivans which were derived from the K-cars, and even small trucks even up into the early '00s were genuinely small, back to where everything is stupidly massive except for maybe sports cars. Hatchbacks are all but dead here, for example, and are sadly even dying out in the EU now.

This is no defense of car dependency, but the rise of huge vehicles in the US is a recent construct.

pruwyben

2025-11-30 21:56:41

Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39682530

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Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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