Elon Musk opening his mouth is a stunt.

All I want is a small engine pick up truck with not cell phone modem or gipity.

I'm not even going to watch this.

Byd has production cars in China that jump over potholes.

Tesla has a car that will never go to production, and contains a volatile bomb inside that would likely kill everyone within a certain distance in a crash. And it probably isn't anything other than a motor on a chassis

All these tech reviewer YouTube guys spend the first 5 minutes saying "it's really dumb" and the next 25 gushing over all "amazing engineering" They're all drinking the kool-aid, they just don't like the flavour too much.

Honestly do not understand how no car manufacturers have figured out that people want small pickups. But markup is clearly better on massive ones so they keep making them bigger and bigger.

Honestly do not understand how no car manufacturers have figured out that people want small pickups.

Because people kept buying F150's instead of Rangers en masse? The F150 outsold the maverik by 5-6x in 2025. It outsold the Maverik and Ranger combined by 3.5x in 2025.

But markup is clearly better on massive ones so they keep making them bigger and bigger.

Markup is probably better, but they've also spent the last 30 years aggressively marketing big tough manly truuucks.

Definitely has nothing to do with smaller trucks being more expensive than large ones.

Also nothing to do with regulations forcing larger trucks every year to keep the fleet MPG rating they've been chasing.

Byd has production cars in China that jump over potholes.

Wut?

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/byds-electric-hypercar-can-jump-on-its-own-but-why

Sure It's not a 10000psi fragmentation grenade in a stunt car that will never go to market, but it's the next best thing

They have. Hyundai and Ford have small trucks and Toyota is releasing one in the next year or so.

Both the Santa Cruz and the Maverick are smaller than the Toyota Helix.

Definitely has nothing to do with smaller trucks being more expensive than large ones.

Smaller trucks are cheaper. Looking just at what shows available at my local Ford (I'm sticking with them as a brand for this discussion) their F150s start at 54,000 CAD (4WD, 4 door, 2.7L V6) Their Maveriks start at 40,000 CAD (AWD Hybrid, cloth seats, steel wheels). The cheapest Ranger is 49,000 which is shocking. The little trucks ARE cheaper.

Also nothing to do with regulations forcing larger trucks every year to keep the fleet MPG rating they've been chasing.

I was recently watching a video on youtube about this that cited some research that suggests that the effects of that are massively overstated.

I agree that government should be doing something different to push people to smaller vehicles though.