Close your eyes and imagine it’s 1979. A first-term Democratic president struggles with unemployment, malaise, high energy prices, and embassy trouble. The landscape of today looks like the landscape of then, but there’s one important thing missing: The compact pickup. Where did they go? The small pickup was an indelible symbol of America’s lowered expectations in the Seventies and Eighties. Now that crappy times are here again, where are the paper-thin truck beds and wheezy-but-indestructible four-cylinders to pull them?
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Tagged as CAFE, compact trucks, EPA, Euro VI, full-size trucks, Government, NHTSA, Regulation, Station Wagons, Trucks, wagons
Tagged as CAFE, compact trucks, EPA, Euro VI, full-size trucks, Government, NHTSA, Regulation, Station Wagons, Trucks, wagons
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