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Now, if only they would revive the light trucks of the 1980s. Even the new Ranger looks massive (perhaps, that’s only looks though?).

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We had a 3rd-Generation Toyota 4WD that was simply amazing -- I think we sold it with 350K miles on it, and it's probably still running today. I looked at a recent Tacoma, and was shocked at how huge they'd gotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Third_generation_...

The new Tacoma is basically a ringer for the old Tundra.

no they are massive. the new tacomas are huge. i miss my 99 ranger :(

I was thinking about a Colorado and even those are huge compared to my old B4000 (Ford Ranger with a better grill). The Colorado was also the most uncomfortable truck I've ever sat in.

It'll probably never happen because pickups have such a big profit margin, they wouldn't want to sell a lower end one when people are buying the bigger ones. Also, you have to pay extra taxes to import trucks, so you either have to build them in the US or raise the price.

The Chicken Tax was going to be repealed as part of the TPP, but that obviously imploded.

I have a ford ranger from 1998 and a mazda b3000 from 2000. Both are stick shift and have over 250k miles on them

No I am not selling them even though parts are starting to get hard to find

They really are larger. You can't even buy a single cab Tacoma in the US anymore.

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