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But they're essentially illegal. CAFE standards are based on vehicle footprint since the late 2000s (you know - when they suddenly quit making small trucks). As the standards get stricter they just make trucks bigger to keep from failing to meet CAFE.
Yes, that's why I replied to a comment about the laws needing to change.
Though the benefit of the law is that the standard engine on the Ford Maverick is the hybrid, since having the ICE as the standard wouldn't meet CAFE.
If the Maverick had been possible to obtain when my Colorado died last summer it's definitely what I would have bought.
Instead I got an NV200 mini cargo van, and I'm pretty happy with it. Though the smash cargo vans just all got discontinued by all the manufacturers too because of CAFE.