Actually, the BRAT wasn't able to get imported as a truck, (I don't remember why), so they put those seats in the bed so that it could be imported as a passenger Vehicle.
Blasphemer!🤬
I heartily agree with Creeker. NOTHING but a Jeep badged vehicle is a Jeep. And most times, a Cherokee, Wagoneer, Comanche, Gladiator, Compass, etc. are called just by those names. The ONLY Jeeps just referred to simply as "The Jeep" are the CJs, YJs, TJs, JKs, or Jls, (Wranglers for the non Jeeper among you). Anything else is Blasphemy.
THESE are what are called "Jeeps"!
I think that GM came up with it as a category for the S-10 "Baby" Blazer, as Sedalia Dave said in the mid '80s.
I know that my 1979 Jeep CJ 7 was titled as a "Multi Purpose Passenger Vehicle" in Ohio.
I would concentrate on wholesale business. If I'm making widgets, my distribution is going to be more efficient sending 10,000 units to Bigmart in a single shipment than it would be to send 3 units to Subdeacon Joe. Now if Subdeacon Joe WERE to want to buy straight from the factory that would be fine, but it would cost me, and so him, more to pull, package, and ship, (per widget) his order.
In the same vein, the "Giving away of the Bride": One of the male head of the family's primary responsibilities was the protection and the providing for the women in the family. In "giving" his daughter to her new husband, he was also passing that responsibility on to him.
Some years ago I was shipping something and paying with my Debit Card. This was before chips, so I was sliding it. The first one didn't take. I tried again. No good. Now if you remember, if it didn't work, you were supposed to slide your card quickly. I tried that but to no avail. The clerk told me to slide it slowly. I questioned that, mentioning that the standard was quick. He said,
"Hey, this is the Post Office." It worked.
That would probably require a space walk. Not knowing any better, I'd guess that everything involved in doing one often enough to get the result might be more expensive than new gear.