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title: "Is the Regular Cab Pickup Doomed?"
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# Is the Regular Cab Pickup Doomed?

By Tim Esterdahl

Published: 2016-09-13T18:53:32+00:00

![Featured image](<https://pickuptrucktalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/6a00d83451b3c669e2017eea558b9f970d-800wi.jpg>)

![6a00d83451b3c669e2017eea558b9f970d-800wi](<https://pickuptrucktalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/6a00d83451b3c669e2017eea558b9f970d-800wi.jpg>)For the past several years, truck manufacturers have been adding more double and crew cab pickups to their build orders. They say customer demand is behind this increase, but could a combination of factors — the most important of which is pending federal corporate average fuel economy regulations — ultimately cause the regular cab pickup to disappear? It could, and here’s how.

 

*Read more on [Pickuptrucks.com](<http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2013/04/is-the-regular-cab-pickup-doomed.html>).*

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