They're not buying new trucks, usually. Manufacturers are in business to sell new vehicles, not used. As long as new truck buyers aren't interested in small trucks, there won't be small trucks. The "luxury" items on new trucks are cheap to make; leaving them off will only reduce the manufacturing cost of new trucks…

Not going to get people to write a check for a new one.

Not in the US. Anyone who can afford a new truck can afford the fuel. People who drive fullsize trucks as car substitutes won't drive cramped, rough riding minitrucks. If you have small loads to haul for work, they're probably too valuable to carry in an open truck bed.

Only about 16 years, if you count the NA and NB. The current car is a new chassis.

In 1985, the 3.8 would have been the MPFI version rocking 125hp.

Miata/Stratos 2012: Hope

The solution to bringing it to the broken car would be to equip a special truck to transport it to the car. Perhaps with some sort of hydraulic boom in the bed to lower the pusher to the ground.

Honestly, Matt Millen is the last person I was thinking about today.

They're on my list after I do Gene Siskel.

Take a wrecking ball to every monument that Joe Paterno built to himself, and we'll listen.

Awesome. Now, find us a whole Ed Hardy shirt sculped from produce.

Shown: Concept for Masturbating Drummer's new album, Stick-y Fingers.

If you keep the body clean, it mostly dries out. It takes insects and scavengers to consume it.

In financial news, after a rebound this spring, stock in Gary Johnston and Associates has reached a new 52-week low this morning in brisk trading.

I'd count each dismissed charge as a separate miracle. Leave it to St Jopa to get canonized with the hat trick!

Lawyer/Navy Seal, barista/musician. All the same.

But until the ecology collapsed, it successfully defended itself against predators by confusing them with flowery language.

Just gotta give it full throttle.

It would have to be skinned all the way around to use the Cadillac fenders and doors. The rear quarters are Cadillac, not the generic barrel-crosssection station wagon.

They did make a Tempo wagon, but it's disguised as an Escort.