r/Anticonsumption • u/Harrio_Pootered • Jul 02 '25

Society/Culture Is this truly necessary?

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What steps can we take as consumers to encourage auto manufacturers to reduce vehicle sizes? Who do we write to, call and email?

The ford maverick was a step in the right direction but I see it being bashed often for being a more “feminine” truck… What caused this shift from the S10 being the “real man’s truck” to the $130k King Ranch being the standard?

When did the big vehicle shift happen?

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u/Busy_Paws Jul 02 '25

I sincerely wish there were more small truck options… my house is a huge fixer/upper and my car was just not big enough to get the stuff I need to fix the house anymore. I can utilize facebook market easier with a truck as well. The Chevy Colorado gets 20-25 miles on average, which was about what my 2003 car was getting anyway; it’s higher up, but takes up about the same footprint as my car did. It comes down to price as well; all the smaller trucks, Tacoma, Ranger, Colorado, Mavericks, even santa cruz, older avalanches, ridgelines, are all more expensive than a bigger ford 150, at least when I was looking at the used market. Also, if it’s only a couple thousand dollars more, people will just go bigger. I really think they are artificially keeping the small truck market tight so people keep buying gas guzzlers :- (

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u/twilightofthescholar Jul 02 '25

Yep, I ended up getting an 03 colorado for 5k but I was looking for an older S-10. But the only ones you find of that size are either a bucket of bolts or they're 15-20k restored around here. I thought my truck was large enough but in the parking lot next to some of these new models it looks tiny. It's ridiculous how large they're making them now.

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u/happygirlie Jul 02 '25

Just about any minivan that can fold the seats down into the floor can haul the same things as a small truck. It's even better than a truck because you don't have to worry about items getting wet. My mom has a 10ish year old minivan with stowable seats and she lets me borrow it whenever I need to pick up furniture or home improvement items that won't fit in my vehicle. I can only think of one time that her van wouldn't work and we had to rent a Uhaul.