(US) I’ve noticed over the past couple of years that “small” trucks are starting to shrink again. Seems they finally hit critical mass.
I fucking pray this is true. All I want in a vehicle is a late 90s style pickup with a single cab and a full bed to drive on the highway. I don’t need passenger space, I don’t need ridiculous ground clearance, I don’t need an engine powerful enough for towing. I just need something to haul furniture and lumber around in, maybe some yard waste if I ever manage to afford a house. Bonus points if it’s electric.
If nothing like that comes out I’ll just keep driving my Honda civic until it disintegrates and borrow my dad’s shitty Colorado when necessary.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re currently still huge. But I saw a 2024 or 2025 Tacoma a few weeks ago that looked a fair bit smaller than the previous year models. I’m hoping we’re on the rebound and that they’re going to continue to decrease in size. Guess we’ll see but I’m hoping so too.
I will say that I love a (tiny) extended cab - Toyota calls/called them the “access cab” and on the old (early to mid-90s) S10’s I had I think they called them a “king cab”. Having space in the cab to store tools, camping/emergency gear, etc is really nice. There are ““seats”” there in the Tacoma, presumably to get around the chicken tax, but they are horrible to use as such. The ones in the old S10 folded up into the side walls which was awesome. They were out of the way but available for the 0.0001% of the time you needed them and those actually weren’t too horribly uncomfortable since they faced the center of the vehicle instead of forward.
Yeah the ones with like a 1.5 cab aren’t terrible but I don’t want something that’s dedicating a whole ass second seating area for passengers when I don’t ever drive other people around. Being able to fit an entire desk/bookcase/bedframe in the bed is far more important to me (and being able to get it out without having to climb because I’m short as fuck).
I fucking pray this is true. All I want in a vehicle is a late 90s style pickup with a single cab and a full bed to drive on the highway. I don’t need passenger space, I don’t need ridiculous ground clearance, I don’t need an engine powerful enough for towing. I just need something to haul furniture and lumber around in, maybe some yard waste if I ever manage to afford a house. Bonus points if it’s electric.
If nothing like that comes out I’ll just keep driving my Honda civic until it disintegrates and borrow my dad’s shitty Colorado when necessary.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re currently still huge. But I saw a 2024 or 2025 Tacoma a few weeks ago that looked a fair bit smaller than the previous year models. I’m hoping we’re on the rebound and that they’re going to continue to decrease in size. Guess we’ll see but I’m hoping so too.
I will say that I love a (tiny) extended cab - Toyota calls/called them the “access cab” and on the old (early to mid-90s) S10’s I had I think they called them a “king cab”. Having space in the cab to store tools, camping/emergency gear, etc is really nice. There are ““seats”” there in the Tacoma, presumably to get around the chicken tax, but they are horrible to use as such. The ones in the old S10 folded up into the side walls which was awesome. They were out of the way but available for the 0.0001% of the time you needed them and those actually weren’t too horribly uncomfortable since they faced the center of the vehicle instead of forward.
Yeah the ones with like a 1.5 cab aren’t terrible but I don’t want something that’s dedicating a whole ass second seating area for passengers when I don’t ever drive other people around. Being able to fit an entire desk/bookcase/bedframe in the bed is far more important to me (and being able to get it out without having to climb because I’m short as fuck).