Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
I was wondering why I couldn't find a small truck when last I bought one. I got a Toyota Tacoma, but it is "huge" compared to what I was looking for, and compared to the small Toyota I had in the '80s.

Subarus also seem excessively huge - when we got my now-ex-wife an Outback, we were looking for something to replace our expired Volvo wagon, and remembered Outbacks as being station wagons. Imagine our surprise on the lot to find they had ballooned into large-ish SUVs.

I'm currently on a quest to get a decent, old, diesel, Toyota HiLux - there are a few importers of such treasures now. I almost pulled the trigger on a lovely Ford Model A pickup last year, but it was way too nice for how I'd use it, and I would have felt bad.
I've been shopping the Ford Maverick truck as a replacement for my Tacoma. Comes with a hybrid engine, relatively cheap, good reviews by Car and Driver and Consumer Reports. Rumor is that Toyota will be coming out with a smaller pickup to compete, possibly hybrid or EV this year. A bit smaller than the Tacoma and probably more zippy than my four cyl. manual. I do miss the older small Toyota pickups. Possibly my favorite car ever aside from the '57 Studebaker of my youth.