Our Readers Think These Automakers Should Make A New Pickup Truck

Mazda

As personification who lives successful nan United States, it is intolerable to flight pickup trucks. Millions of nan things are sold successful our beautiful, nightmarish state each azygous year, from crossover-based pickups for illustration nan Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz to hulking heavy-duty trucks for illustration the Ford Super Duty and Ram 3500, and immoderate different niches successful between. It seems for illustration much and much automakers are coming retired pinch caller pickups each nan time, pinch nan astir caller announcements coming from Hyundai and Kia.

That led maine to my mobility from past week, wherever I asked our assemblage to show maine which car institution they deliberation should beryllium adjacent to travel retired pinch a caller pickup truck. Your answers ran nan gamut from affordable to high-end, but nan astir celebrated reply was a marque you whitethorn not beryllium expecting: Mazda. A batch of you think Mazda should make a caller truck. I don't deliberation that would beryllium a bully business decision, but it would decidedly beryllium an absorbing one. Without further ado, these are my favourite answers:

Nissan

Nissan. The Titan is gone. The Frontier has gone afloat upper-level midsize. The Ford Maverick is showing mini trucks are selling. Nissan still has a coagulated estimation pinch trucks truthful it makes a batch of consciousness to make what group want – a smaller, much businesslike pickup that doesn't costs a mini fortune. Keep it betwixt $28K-$32K, passable backmost seat, 1990s colors, and watch it alert disconnected of nan lots.

Submitted by: Xavier96

I deliberation Nissan should do a Leaf-based truck.

Mazda

Realistically? Chevy needs a Maverick competitor.

Non-realistically? Mazda. Something for illustration nan Slate truck, but pinch an IC motor (or hybrid) and a manual.

It would beryllium cool to person caller Mazda mini-truck. Make it disposable pinch each powertrain they have, including nan large consecutive six from nan CX-90. If they could get a hybrid version, too, that would beryllium awesome. Give it a bully dose of nan ol' zoom-zoom, too!

Let's get weird pinch it. Mazda, Rotary, Hybrid, Cab-over, Option level furniture pinch fold down sides, Available successful Soul Red Crystal

I deliberation a small, Maverick-sized motortruck would fresh good into nan Mazda portfolio. Something sporty and light, pinch either a manual 4-cylinder turbo aliases nan Toyota-sourced hybrid strategy from nan CX-50.

The Mazda BT-50. It technically does not count since they already make it overseas and would request to beryllium imported. So it fails nan QOTD, but it is still my pick. As personification mentioned earlier, 80k+ trucks are now nan norm. Picture a Tundra competitor, built connected nan CX-90 platform, pinch Mazda's saccharine Kodo creation connection and their 3.3 mild hybrid I6. I deliberation it would beryllium a deed and springiness group successful nan marketplace for afloat size trucks much options.

Submitted by: Crucial Taunt, Stillnotatony, half man half carnivore half pig, JonRob 951, Dano Nahabedian

I don't deliberation anyone would bargain a caller Mazda motortruck successful nan U.S., but possibly I'm wrong!

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I'll spell pinch MINI. MINI Backcountryman. Left nan point a bit, chunky tires, 5 ft bed. What's not to like.

Submitted by: Funkatron

You tin already bargain a Mini ute — conscionable get a utilized ex-Red Bull promo car.

Lexus

Lexus should build a pickup because they've already sewage each nan reliable motortruck courage from Toyota—same bones arsenic a Toyota Tundra—they conscionable cognize really to make it thrust quiet, smooth, and past forever. Imagine a motortruck that tin still haul, tow, and return a beating, but nan wrong feels amended than your surviving room, for illustration a Lexus GX 550. You'd get nan spot you really need, positive comfortableness that doesn't deterioration you retired connected a agelong drive, and it'd astir apt tally longer pinch less headaches than astir of nan fancy trucks retired location now. That's a motortruck a feline could usage each week and still bask driving connected nan weekend.

That's an fantabulous idea. And there's already precedent. Toyota has made respective Land Cruiser pickups complete nan years, and it's rumored they're bringing 1 backmost successful 2027. It would beryllium a elemental point for Toyota to switch complete nan GX beforehand clip and interior fixed that it and nan Land Cruiser Prado are mechanically identical.

Submitted by: Papa Chris, MrMcGeeIn3D

It's kinda chaotic that Lexus hasn't done this yet.

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Volvo. I would person loved to spot a Volvo pickup during nan 80s and 90s astatine nan tallness of their bulletproof bricks. Although that era is gone now, I deliberation nan institution could still propulsion disconnected a pickup today. They already make semi motortruck cabs, and moreover if it doesn't travel to nan U.S., Sweden's surface science would still beryllium conducive for a Volvo pickup.

Submitted by: Giantsgiants

Volvo decidedly should do a ute.

BMW

BMW. For nary different logic than I deliberation a 3 bid based mini truck/Ute would beryllium an absolute ball

Submitted by: JaredOfLondon

Yes. Especially if it's based connected nan caller i3.

Plymouth

Something truthful dumb, it mightiness work: Chrysler. Give america a softer Ram truck. Fully clasp it'll beryllium a parking batch queen, and will spot only nan occasional container of ungraded from Home Depot. Lean into nan truth astir pickups are conscionable Minivans for Men™️ pinch a furniture anyways.

We've already seen pinch Lincoln Blackwood and Escalade EXT that these motortruck buyers don't want to beryllium seen arsenic wanting a softer truck. It has to beryllium a "working man's" motortruck pinch each nan macho branding nary matter really luxurious it got. Triply truthful pinch emblematic RAM buyers.

I mean, if they were assured capable of their manhood to bargain nan car that they really need, they would've bought that Pacifica anyways. A vinyl tarp successful nan backmost is perfectly capable for those occasional Home Depot tally and nan covered rear hatch is much useful for nan remaining 99%.

Submitted by: Scoobie2, Var

Plymouth made a bunch of trucks, but it's astonishing Chrysler ne'er did.

Honda

Honda tried and had immoderate occurrence pinch nan Ridgeline. They should conscionable downsize it to compete pinch nan Maverick. Have 3 trims, base, hybrid and type R. Base trim comes pinch si motor standard, hybrid gets nan extreme civic hybrid setup and nan TypeR of people would get nan turbo K.

Submitted by: Minivanman

Approximately 3 group would by a Honda Type R pickup but I for illustration your thinking.

Mercedes-Benz

Living Texas, group really effort to judge prime ups tin beryllium luxury vehicles, truthful why not conscionable spell each nan measurement pinch it pinch a afloat sized, half ton prime up truck. Build them present to get astir nan "chicken tax". If group will salary past 100k for King Ranches and nan like, they'll HAPPILY driblet 180k for a MB truck. Hell, moreover make a Maybach version. There's wholly a marketplace for it pinch nan lipid magnets successful nan south.

Mercedes Benz. Forget astir nan forgettable, conscionable for illustration everyone else, Nissan based X-class. Take a low-floor Metris van, make it hybrid AWD, support 2 seating rows, and chop disconnected nan back, make it into a 6' L bed. Semi-cab complete pinch bigger wheels and butch-up nan look. Something that doesn't beryllium yet successful nan N.A. market, but should. They already make a Sprinter van pinch AWD. A mid-size pickup would beryllium awesome. Every mid-size pickup has a $60K+ version, which is successful M-B territory.

Submitted by: Marcus C, Singletrack

Mercedes already does motortruck versions of nan Sprinter, but a luxe motortruck based connected the caller VLE would beryllium awesome.

Startech

i cognize it whitethorn sound weird, but Range Rover, deliberation a 4 doorway scope rover pinch an existent furniture and each nan trappings of modern scope rovers, for illustration Jason Statham successful business casual pinch flipflops.

Submitted by: TexasJalopySlinger

Great idea.

Toyota

I dont get why toyota made nan corolla transverse erstwhile they could person made a corolla aliases rav4 based pickup. Expecially erstwhile they person a decent corolla hatch and nan rav4 already

Toyota, who is astir apt already making one. Between Maverick's occurrence and Santa Cruz' deficiency location of (quite a shame), I'm guessing group are looking for thing inexpensive and applicable much than lifestyle. So thing for illustration a Corolla Cross pinch a bed? I'm guessing a RAV4 based motortruck will beryllium excessively expensive.

Submitted by: Var

I person to ideate Toyota will person a Maverick competitor connected waste wrong nan adjacent fewer years, they'd beryllium dumb not to.