Growth of Midsize Pickup Trucks
Noticed the chart below from Pickup Trucks.com, that the Midsize segment continues to expand, and that includes older models, not just the newly introduced "twins" vehicles? Seeing fuel prices are l...
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Fuel prices don't mean much here Robert.
A couple of things: in the USA, fuel is fairly cheap at the pump, even when "prices are up" because we do not tax the consumer to death ( like the EU countries do ).
The second thing is, most consumers of these vehicles in the United States have a good enough job or enough money in the bank that fluctuating fuel prices means little.
We buy and drive what we want. If other markets demand small, underpowered, hard riding trucks, that have good fuel economy and a high payload, then so be it. Try to sell that here and it would fail in the marketplace overnight.
When I need to haul a "heavy load in a pickup", I use my F350 dually. When I am just doing light work, or daily driving, I drive my Nissan Frontier. Right tools for the jobs.
A couple of things: in the USA, fuel is fairly cheap at the pump, even when "prices are up" because we do not tax the consumer to death ( like the EU countries do ).
The second thing is, most consumers of these vehicles in the United States have a good enough job or enough money in the bank that fluctuating fuel prices means little.
We buy and drive what we want. If other markets demand small, underpowered, hard riding trucks, that have good fuel economy and a high payload, then so be it. Try to sell that here and it would fail in the marketplace overnight.
When I need to haul a "heavy load in a pickup", I use my F350 dually. When I am just doing light work, or daily driving, I drive my Nissan Frontier. Right tools for the jobs.
