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by toast0 975 days ago
People import kei trucks, even though importing is a pain, so there's some demand for small trucks. If the MPG standards were addressed, I think it'd be a hard sell for a real 80s style small truck (although, I'd buy one), but a 1998-2011 style Ranger is still pretty small. Build it with a c-max/ford fusion PHEV power train +/- RWD, stuff the batteries under the bed (like the 1998-2002 Ford Ranger EV, get pretty good gas mileage and decent EV only range. Doesn't need to be huge.

But they don't let me design cars.

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> If the MPG standards were addressed, I think it'd be a hard sell for a real 80s style small truck

They'd just have to be EVs instead of ICE.