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SAME BED SIZE
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.
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!
Part of the whole multipurpose craze is also just that few people can afford to own multiple vehicles anymore. My dad owns a little hatchback for a daily driver and a fuckoff big pickup for when hauling needs to be done but he can only do that because he knows enough about vehicles to buy and fix cheap old piles of crap and keep them going. The average person doesn't know how to do that so they need to buy newer vehicles and those vehicles are heniously expensive now so buying one daily driver is enough of a struggle let alone buying a seperate work vehicle. If they need to both take the kids to soccer practice and haul things then I can see how someone might think a suburbitank is a good idea.
But like you said, there are also a lot of people who own these massive trucks but don't need them. If the paint on the truck is unblemished or there isn't a spot of dirt on it then that driver can go fuck themselves because clearly the only utility that vehicle is serving is as an ego prosthetic. Real working vehicles get beat up. Seeing a clean spotless truck is like seeing a mechanic without a spot of dirt on them; they both clearly aren't working.
95% of the fuck off pick ups I see in the city are basically mall crawlers. The bed really never seeing any kind of real use. Not a spot or scratch anywhere on the damned things.
Over the 10 years I've lived in my apartment complex there are more and more of these big ass oversized trucks parking in our lot and 1 of 20 looks like it's being used for it's purpose.
ESPECIALLY WHEN I SEE A PICKUP WITH FUCKING RIMS ON IT!!
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
Good read. Thanks. Nice to see the EPA is trying bit corporate lobbying is the constant battle.
Legallize is its own language and people make a career writing in loopholes and preserving profits. Public safety and global stability be damned.