• Steven McTowelie
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    262 months ago

    Maybe US car manufacturers could, y’know, make their own compact trucks? 😀

      • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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        162 months ago

        No, they’re run by ancient douche bags that are constantly finding loopholes in the current laws that allow (if not encourage) them to make bigger vehicles.

        If they were desperately trying to hold onto the past, the new Ford Ranger reboot wouldn’t be nearly the same size as an F-150.

    • @DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      that requires a shift in design and engineering, not to mention retooling the actual manufacturing process

      less expensive to just keep selling shit in the status quo. change is effort, effort is waste, waste is less profit margins

    • Mike D.
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      12 months ago

      They don’t have as much profit as large trucks. Capitalism strikes again.