Why no small pick up trucks anymore

[jfkbengals]

(05-26-2018, 12:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Pick up trucks are still very popular, but the best I can tell they no longer make a small or "compact" pick up.

What they call "small" pick ups now are like full size pick ups from 30 years ago.

Seems like there would still be a market for them.

Fuel Efficiency Laws

The regulations are based on size of the vehicle.  Bigger vehicles obviously will have higher fuel consumption.  It's rumored that actually played a large part in Ford dropping all non-truck/SUV vehicles other than the Mustang.

With that said, I thought I saw something about Ford talking about bringing back the Ranger, which was a small truck.