On December 3, 2025 President Donald Trump called for American Automakers to manufacture a smaller, more affordable pickup truck for the American consumer to fight inflation and offer consumers an alternative to the average $66,000 price to purchase a half-ton pickup truck today - compared with just $20,000 for the average full-size light-duty pickup truck 30 years ago.

The American Bantam® Muritruck® is the truck America stopped building — and the one America needs most right now.

Built and assembled in the United States using American steel and American workers, the Muritruck® starts at $22,450 - about the same price a new Ford F-150 cost 30 years ago in 1996. Muritruck puts out higher horsepower than that 1996 F-150 did, carries more than double the payload, and gets you to work without a six-year auto loan.

No other new pickup truck in America comes close to this price. The nearest competitor won't let customers out the door for less than $30,000 - and their truck is built in Mexico. The Muritruck® is built in the USA.

Muritruck® will launch in two configurations: a Dually two-door regular cab and a Dually four-door crew cab - America's most capable compact truck. Both have full sized beds which can easily haul 5 x 8 foot sheets of plywood with the tailgate closed. As an added bonus, the sides of pickup bed fold down to turn the Muritruck into a flat bed.

The Muritruck payload is over 4,400 pounds, around double a stock Ram 1500 or F-150 in a truck that starts at $22,450. All Muritrucks come standard with essentials every working pickup truck owner must have: air conditioning, bluetooth enabled stereo speakers, and a truck that simply works without breaking the bank. Future options include automatic transmission, upgraded interior, four-wheel drive, and a premium edition Muritruck with an American leather interior.

American steel. American assembly. American workers. America ingenuity. American Bantam. Muritruck® is America's truck, built for the people who actually need one.

American Bantam Car Company was established in 1936 by Roy Evans who was born Barrow, Georgia. In September, 1940 American Bantam invented the original Jeep for the US Army. American Bantam delivered the first Jeep prototype in just 49 days and was the sole manufacturer of U.S. Army Jeeps until 1941.

What many people don't know is American Bantam also built America's first compact pickup trucks in the 1930s, making American Bantam the ancestor of every compact pickup truck on the road today. American Bantam delivered compact pickup trucks to the U.S. Army in 1939 which eventually led to the U.S. Army in American Bantam's factory in Butler, Pennsylvania, hashing out the production of the first Jeep.

American Bantam Car Corp. was reorganized in Delaware in 2020, with the goal to revive the original Bantam® automotive adventure lifestyle brand, to bring manufacturing from China back to the United States and to build affordable American off-road vehicles and work trucks that today's auto industry has abandoned.