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[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] Lucien@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And the Toyota is likely a 1-ton model, meaning it can haul more weight in its bed than the Ford. One of my first jobs was at a delivery company and we used a lot of these little Toyota and Isuzu trucks because they could get into smaller locations easily and they could haul more weight.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This bullshit is because they want these pickups to be "multi purpose"

Its now a family vehicle! Take your kids to school and go straight to work after!
Safer in crash tests since you decimate sedans!

Go to BJs or Costco and load up on all the toilet paper you want!!
See even farther down the road with higher and brighter headlights! Sedans will let you pass when you blind them with these touchlights!

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

A little of this. A lot more of, truck manufacturers are now either uninterested or incapable of making vehicles that exist inside of legal emissions restrictions, so they blow up the wheelbase to class it up to SUV class. The bigger the vehicle the less restrictive emissions laws are.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180263/epa-tailpipe-emissions-loophole

this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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