>New midsize trucks are just as large/larger then full size

airbags

>>17458767
Fuel economy, actually.

>>17458763
>MUH SAFETY
>MUH ROLLOVER PROTECTION
>MUH AIRBAGS

I'd love if everyone could boycott modern automobiles and stop buying them, but that would be difficult to coordinate. Why buy a new car, when a used one runs and drives just fine and has character to boot?

>>17458783
Nobody would boycott that because people actually value those features.

>>17458783
Again, none of these are reasons that trucks are so massively oversized now. It all has to do with avoiding EPA standards with heavier and heavier vehicles.

>>17458803
Wouldn't a lighter/smaller vehicle get better MPG tho?

>>17458808
Larger vehicles don't have to meet the same expectations as smaller cars. This is why we will never see light trucks in the US.

Maybe Trump will eliminate CAFE altogether and let the market decide on fuel economy.

>implying full size trucks haven't been 80 inches wide for the last 40 or 50 years
They only get slightly longer with every generation because longer hoods look more MUH MANLY and to provide more interior space so that suburban dads can drive them to the office and haul their family on the weekends.

>>17458817
It's always the government...

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This is why.

>>17458817
this. in america, emissions standards for new vehicles are based on wheel base or some arbitrary shit like that.