The no wheel wells was one of the first things i noticed when they opened the bed (AWESOME!). It makes me wonder about the width but i would imagine its the same as any other truck just without the protrusions.
Obviously they cannot magically make the wheels go away. The bed has to fit between the wheels, above the wheels, or have wheel well protrusions. In the case of the CT, the bed is between the wheels, but there is more room between the wheels because there is less need for sideways wheel clearance due to the choice of rear suspension. A conventional solid rear truck axle needs room for the wheels to tilt with the axle. A solid axle can also have some side-to-side sway on the springs. In the case of an independent rear suspension like the CT has, the wheels are more precisely constrained to move only vertically by the suspension linkage, so less clearance is needed. They may have widened the wheel track slightly as well.
I have heard the bed of the CT is 57" wide which is a pretty generous distance between the wheels, but the entire bed is that width which is slightly more narrow than conventional trucks are beyond the wheel wells. My conventional Chevy pickup 6.5' box is 50" between the wheels, but 62" at the top rail edges, 60" wide at the tailgate opening, and about 67" inside the bed under the rails.
My original comment about the CT bed being cramped was about the length. In a conventional truck with a 6.5' bed, you can in fact load a cuboid volume box that is 78" long, 48" wide, and 48" high in the truck and close the tailgate because the smallest length of the bed from the inner edge of the front top rail to the tailgate clears 78". In addition, there is another couple of inches of room under the front rail down to the floor of the bed. Also, above the rail there are also a few extra inches of clearance before things hit the back window of the cab.
I fear the nominal 6.5' length of the CT bed is only at the floor of the bed because its cab slopes back over the bed, taking about 6" of usable length away from the cargo bed up at the window. And the back window of the cab is the thing your cargo will be pushing up against if its more than about 18" high (unless its tall enough to hit the roof edge where the roll top turns the corner which overhangs yet another couple of inches).
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