Maybe it is common but I've never come across it.
I am in New Orleans right now and have just taken back my 3 day rental - a Toyota Tacoma pickup - one of these, very nice and shiny in black. www.toyota.com/tacoma/
First thing was how high up it is. I doubt SWMBO wouldn't have been able to get in and out as she has minor hip problems. I don't have a tape measure with me but I'd say the door opening is getting on for 2ft off the ground, with no step (just above my knee height).
Next it was OK to dive, usual autobox, and felt quite economic. I did about 400 miles in three days and when I filled it it took just over $40 and a (US) gallon is only $2.67 (just over £2) so about 15 gallons - so actually the maths tells me that it wasn't THAT economical after all.
Anyway my main query is steering and braking. It had a really tight turning circle, which is handy when you do U turns on the highway here. But the tighter you turned it, the less it wanted to move. On it's tightest lock it was like the handbrake had been left on, and forcing it to move you could hear the tyres scrubbing along the tarmac. Is that normal? I wondered if is rwd and maybe that'd be why, though it almost felt dangerous sometimes as you have to give it some quite serious beans to get it to move and that resulted in a lurch forwards.
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Pickup - weird steering/braking new
Pickup - weird steering/braking new