I have to agree with most of the comments here.

Most vehicles that are sold around the world are made to be practical for their surroundings and where they are most likely to be used. As road networks expand, and populations become more urban, the Honda Civic becomes more important.

The simple, mechanically based engines with few bells and whitstles will be more of a thing of the past. Aside from the overlanding and rock crawling communities, few people will EVER push their trucks even close to the limit of what they can actually do. Marketing though is the big reason why a truck has massive towing capacity....not because we NEED it, but because we THINK we need it.

To me, the advent of 3-D printers will be a HUGE boon to the overlanding area where people can more easily produce one-off designs and really start to customize their rigs. Right now we are really dependent on a few really smart engineers and some great companies like OME for developing the next hot thing.

I think a lot of folks have great ideas and cool designs, just no real means for implementing them. I hope that 3-D printing is a way that people could literally start to make entire vehicles out of their garage. I have already read an article on one guy that re-made a classic car. Then you could have your brand new 1970s Toyota! How sweet would that be??