The year was 2005. The only screens in a Honda Civic were an algae‑green LCD clock and the odometer display. Audi had just invented LED running lights. You could still buy a Pontiac Sunfire or Saturn Ion. The hottest truck in the land was the Viper‑powered Dodge Ram SRT‑10, and it weighed 5,130 pounds for starters, making it a little on the heavy side. In fact, if you averaged the weight of every configuration of every half‑ton pickup sold in the United States that year, it’s very likely you’d come to a figure around 5,000 pounds, roughly equal to two Honda Civics of the era. From that 2005 pickup baseline weight, read on as we roll a few modern SUVs onto the scale to see which of them now outweigh the full‑size trucks your parents drove two decades ago.
