I'm one of those 70%. When my grandfather was in Hospice he wanted me to have his pick-up truck so I kept it. Not trying to justify it, just telling my story.
Corporations create money Citizens want handouts I would support a corporation any day as well And finally You forget where you live This is America a capitalist society We will capitalize on anything including you That's a fact 💯🇺🇸🥴
@@MartinGonzalez-sl2kj It’s ironic that you mention handouts when corporations receive billions in bailouts and tax breaks-much bigger than anything the average citizen sees. Supporting corporations without understanding how they’re propped up by government aid shows a clear lack of knowledge about how capitalism actually functions. A strong economy relies on a balance between corporate success and the well-being of its citizens, not blind allegiance to one over the other. You might want to brush up on basic economics before throwing around terms like 'handouts' and 'capitalism' without context.
yeah, small trucks and cars feel awesome to drive. favorite car i ever drove was a pos used geo metro in the 90s. went from detroit to baton rouge often on like 40 bucks, and felt like i was racing the whole time. couldnt kill the thing. got desroyed by a drunk driver smashing into it parked outside my moms one year.
@Alex-dh2cx I was born in the 90's. Ford Ranger is a mid size truck and despite being huge on the international market, it did dismal numbers in the USA because nobody wants these small baby trucks.
@@farzana6676 they sold over 300,000 units a year of the ford ranger in the 90s. S10 wasn't that far behind the ranger. That's half the sales of the f150, but still well ahead of most other models. You're just full of shit
@@farzana6676tons would love these cheap cars/trucks but tariffs are high and American companies don't build them because they want the higher profits of the more expensive cars.
@blendo12345 I mean I have an old s 10. I don't use it as a work truck often. But it is helpful when I move too and from college. That's why I like smaller trucks, you have the bed if you need it but it's not a huge waste if you don't use it often
Facts. My Dad (retired now) was a tradesman his whole life. He used to buy a new pickup truck every three years in the 80s and 90s. They were cheap. No normal person wanted them. And then they started making the quad cab and adding all sorts of bells and whistles to the interior that where once you wouldn't give a crap about getting in dirty, now it would be like getting in someone's Bentley with mud on your boots.
@@ozvega.57dude thats bs, i live in western nc (clay county) and ppl drive jacked up trucks that are as clean as my mustang. Most dudes who drive them around here do not do any type of work involving these trucks. I hate those things so much lol
@@senorjuanwick9818 As a neighbor just a bit more east, don't worry too much. They're getting laughed at by anybody who is A. not in the same car and B. not in the same kind of car.
I work in a lumber yard and it’s hilarious when people come in with those big trucks and have never hauled anything in them. They’re always so cautious of scratching the truck bed.. ITS A TRUCK BED
It feels like nonsense when people don't have liners in their truck beds. Why drive a vehicle that's horrible for driving and has poor storage space if you're not actually using the main feature of it
In Iraq I used to see those bongo trucks loaded to the max with goats, people, produce and miscellaneous tools. I can confirm that those little trucks are a workhorse 😂
bonggo is the name of KiA comercial truck😅 like Hyundai Porter. it represented by overloaded cargo. in developing era, S.Korean workers love overload. so 1 ton allowed Bonggo and Porter reinforce their body strenth upto 3 tons.
i heard they're only allowed for off-road use.. I would love to get one to be able to get moved into my new house but i doubt i'd be allowed to drive it on the road without getting a ticket
@@eyadhamza3147 here in TN they made it off road only so it is basically a paperweight if you wanted to use it for say grocery shopping. Lobbying at its finest
Exactly Ford pickup trucks were much smaller in grandads day and you'd better believe granddad got everything done with that truck. These ginormous trucks Americans are brainwashed into purchasing and going in huge debt are ridiculous as a mass buy.
@@tw8464 there hasn’t been anything my 2003 Ranger hasn’t been able to do. I only have 2WD also. They don’t want to ever make a simple, practical truck for blue collar workers anymore because they’ll lose money when people start doing their own repairs again! When my Ranger inevitably dies I’m going to get another early 2000’s Ranger.
@@sorrowcat2724 exactly you're absolutely right. I miss the Rangers. They used to be widely available and could get them used for very affordable prices. Miss those days. Would love to see Ford bring back a solid affordable Ranger.
If toyota sold a truck the size of the 80's pickup with a manual transmission and no computers, manual transfer case, and hand crank windows I would never buy anything else. Until then I'll keep my manual tacomas running as long as I can.
Americans don't buy trucks with big motors and big beds to use as a work truck: These trucks are mainly used to drive to work, the lake, the park and are not necessarily purchase as a work truck....
@LightBlue-l5j it absolutely will not. An estate car won't tow my landscape trailer with 2 mowers on it. Nor will it transport a load of gravel. Nor will it tow my 6 horse trailer. There are a ton of people in the US that still actually haul and tow and work blue collar jobs. You can't just spray out the back of your estate car with a hose after you throw an old toilet and a bunch of ripped out tile in the back to take to the dump. The idea that an estate car is "always better than a pickup" just shows that you have no idea whatsoever what people use pickup trucks for. 2 days ago I ripped out a whole bunch of carpet and padding at a house where they had very badly behaved cats. You want me to try to jam 800 square feet of pee-stained carpet, padding, and tack strips in the back of a station wagon, and then drive to the dump with the back gate open? No thanks. Pickups are far superior for that. I was very happy to be driving an F-150.
The issue is that in the US small trucks are restricted on a federal level and cannot be driven on a highway. On top of that the EPA has laws against small engines because they arnt as efficient for their size as say a big block V8. Stupid i know but unfortunately the US auto industry is locked down by legislation lobbied into being by the likes of Ford, Gm and Dodge. End lobbying.
State level. Theres an article on a guy trying to make them street legal in Colorado and he was railroaded by local car dealers and others. Shit was infuriating to read.
Yeh they sell them here but they are now trying to regulate them to make it so you can't register a license plate for it because supposedly "it's not safe for public roads" meanwhile you register a classic Ford with no doors or roof and drive that on the freeway.
As a person who live where these small trucks/pickups are the norm, driving these things at our not-so-fast highway are indeed scary 😅.. Ive been driving 1000cc Suzuki Carry and Daihatsu Hijet, i won't push myself beyond 80km/h in these things. I can't imagine people driving them on American highway. Slight breeze or a small hatchback passing you probably could make them wiggle. Tough, outside highway they will be fine. Slightly bigger pickups like Mitsubishi L300 or Australian utes probably make more sense for American highway..
Doesn't matter at all as these trucks are imported from times before those regulations and also because they are imported they don't have to meet the US regulations as long as they meet the requirements to be able to be imported. If not they get blacklisted to import
Well believe it or most Americans use their trucks sorry you don’t know how to hook a trailer up that small ass truck would be used like a golf cart in most places of work it’s pretty useless except for mulch and gravel honestly
Every office worker I see that drives a Silverado 3500 is a poser. Pick ups do have practicality to them as the bed on the are able to be taken off and changed into something else like that other vehicles configuration or put something else but the frame is so beefy that it was designed to haul much more than the average office workers equipment. Plus engines in modern pickup trucks now use cylinder deactivation and stuff to get better gas millage but it is all unreliable.
I would drive that for sure. My biggest fear is all these tiny women in monster trucks that can't hardly see over the steering wheel using me as a speed bump.
You're one of the smart ones buster. People in America will buy a 2000 square foot house and the top line tundra, for 1 person and complain that they can't afford anything.
as long as Im american, i can easily find a friend with a truck. i got a middle aged man, an elderly man, and a young adult friend... ALL with trucks. at least the older men have jobs they use their trucks for. 1) lawn care 2) Mobile Auto Repair 3) the young guy just uses it as a personal vehicle 😅 Personally I love SUVs. its a masculine family car. that I can use for commuting 28 city 34 highway mpg, it has up to 70 cubic feet of storage, a panoramic sun roof. I have a love-hate relationship with its price. i got it brand spanking new and i plan on keeping it till the wheels fall off, BUT.... its a nissan rogue so im kinda concerned for its reliability rating. but so far so good, ive put on every mile from 000 054 until its current 75k miles. my favorite was 69,420. 😂😂😂 and 50k. but what does suck is my towing capacity is only 1000 lbs. but again 99% of my driving is EXTREMELY FUEL EFFIECIENT for a non hybrid SUV. if push comes to shove, I can Pay U-Haul or Home Depot $20 to rent a truck. again, I got lots of American friends with trucks. so why waste my money on a gas guzzler when I dont work with freight. much respect to truck drivers, but I hate em. gas is also much quieter than diesel trucks. jyah jyah jyah jyah jyah jyah jyah jayh... brum bruum brumm. my dads truck was so loud, we could sneak as kids to turn off the games and TV when my folks got home. then they got a Car. and so many gotcha moments cuz gas is just so much more quiet.
I live in Japan these trucks are one step above riding in clown car. Super uncomfortable tin cans. I know a few people that own them specifically to haul large things that can't fit in our tiny cars. The roads here in japan are super narrow so trucks and cars are built a lot smaller than US cars.
@@noco7243 My guy 😂 the biggest problem with these tiny trucks it they literally can’t go 60mph on a highway without blowing up speaking to a non American about our cars and roads is pointless they have zero knowledge and can’t comprehend America
@@simplelogic9090 Wow, thats amazing. Ill buy a truck and sit around waiting for calls from people moving or buying mulch so I can haul them around and show off the power of my truck.
Whilst this is true, this is also America, land of the FREE. Meaning anyone should have the FREEDOM to CHOOSE to take the risk of harm to oneself in the event of an accident. I've seen this argument over and over again, and my rebuttal to said argument is this: motorcycles. These aren't safe? Motorcycles are less safe. Want to ban these? Whelp, I guess motorcycles should also be banned
I heard that so many times...... It haven't stopped me from riding my Harley.... When your time comes, you can be in an Abraham M1 Tank (capable of surviving a nuclear blast) and still drown in a canal..... (True story) That happened in the Irak invasion.
@@ixCGAMExi i never insinuated that the ban on Kei vehicles should continue. The ban is stupid. But the massive vehicle epidemic precludes people adopting smaller vehicles. Its the same reason not everyone rides motorcycles. The general trend will continue because the consensus remains that larger car= safe from other cars, whether or not this is true is up for debate.
Honestly I think it more has to do with the near 100% mortality rate in crashes. Because other 35 mpg trucks exist. And are legal. But they also don’t put the driver in a flimsy cab right in front of the load, in most cases anyway XD
@@ElCapitanGamesnot to mention these trucks with 2 full grown men can easily flip forward when brakes are applied and it’s going to fast. It’s hilarious to see a truck somersault tho
Crazy the amount of people thinking they’re pulling 10 yds of mulch with one of these… like are we really classifying people who use their truck as a work truck as dumb .. crazy Somebody who owns a truck for no reason, I guess but that’s may even be ego / desire to feel big or safe who tf knows
not really bold if it’s true. Most people who buy SUV and Trucks do not use them for their primary purpose. Suv and trucks serve as a clever marketing strategy to sell cars and to get people to buy more, bigger things. Back then, trucks were never a popular driving choice. Now, trucks represent a certain lifestyle and belief system to many Americans. it’s all a fantasy created by marketers. for instance, people buy 4x4 thinking they’ll need it when in reality the most they’ll ever touch is some snow. Or in commercials, theres a reason a man in a big deep voice is telling you to buy a truck and drive it thru mud and canyons and shit (cuz it looked cool and that image sells to men with cash) but in reality, no one offroads, hauls, and carries payload everyday (or ever lol think 4runner moms) unless you work in a specific industry which most people don’t. of course there are exemptions but the numbers don’t lie, most people should be driving sedans but capitalism, ego, and american culture stand in the way.
"made for resupplying small convivence store and deliveries to people living on hills and mountains and not any kind of heavy hauling at long distanced with uneven terrain."
They are sold but they are not street legal in many states. They work great on farms and in woods. Might want to change the wheels to UTV or ATV wheels and tires.
@@allegorx58 they work great, sure they won’t go through deep sand and flying of huge rocks but they’ll drive through farm fields, a few inches of mud, snow. Which is what 99% of pickups do. And most “off road” vehicles don’t see anything beyond a paved road.
@@allegorx58 Clearly said that it was 4wd, and if needed, lift kits are available for anything. I used to have a '77 Datsun 720, standard height, took it out in sand and rough stuff all the time. No problems. Why? Because it was so light. Also knowing how to drive in that terrain helps.
Those trucks are illegal in America do to the fact that they well are front heavy to the point that they flip constantly. Its not dumb to ban an item that kills people from functioning. The entire beds of the K trucks weigh about 20 pounds but the front weighs about 500 pounds. The K trucks are designed where the weight is pushed forward. They are also front wheel drive and they are front wheel breaking. So when they break the back flies up and they flip. When going down hill they back flies up and they flip They are too low to the ground in the back to where the gravity has to be even ground or they flip.
1. SUVS and pick ups are the death machines The us passenger fatality rate triple because of the and I think there are new regulations that make them safer. They are safer to drive safer for cyclists and pedestrians better for cities and fuel economy while having a larger bed with more space and I think the engine and fuel than back wheels and other things are under the bed to keep it from overturning. These trucks are made for for working not for the family and they are better at working than modern pick-up trucks
He said it _will_ do 80+, not that the engine would be happy doing so. I'm sure it would be screaming in the top of 5th to do 80 MPH, and most certainly not getting 35 MPG. Not to mention the fact that it's completely unsafe beyond 35 MPH in a frontal collision. No safety of any kind, really. Absolutely better suited for low-speed, rural or inner-city, use. If you want to cruise at 80 MPH on the way home with a couple bags of groceries in the bed, buy the Tundra. If you live in Japan, buy a Kei truck because you'll be hard pressed to park a Tundra at the grocery.
@@tynewlinYes but the main point in the video is not just about the differences between the trucks, but our cultures themselves. In Japan you will not find many vehicles on the streets big enough to kill the occupant of a Kei vehicle at regular inner city speeds. In fact most passenger vehicles on the roads are Kei cars and all kei cars are built to be safe in crashes with other kei cars. Then you need to understand that Japanese drivers tend to take great pride in their driving skill and penalties for violations are bad enough. But if you do something stupid or not pay attention and cause a bad accident, you will be charged, you will go to jail and serve HARSH time and there is no probation. Again differences between cultures not the trucks themselves.
@@AcuraLvR82he is saying we should buy those little toys. We carry loads or tow boats or trailers. That's smaller than a Honda Civic with a space for a payload it can barely support safely. You also need parts support and warranty support. I think this video shows two extremes.
The 1999 and newer ones that are about to be import legal will definitely do about 70 mph all day, which is all you really need. People try to drive too fast nowadays and most don't have the skill for it. Also, if we started importing these officially to the US they could put slightly larger motors to up the power to more like 100hp. India, for example, gets them with slightly larger engines.
Tommy I love you but only a stupid person would drive that little truck in America. Who do you think gonna win in an auto accident in that little thing?
@@SuperSm13Crash tests are only relevant if you are hitting an immovable object as the IIHS does dont get me wrong the IIHS has contributed to much safer cars but if you take the worst crash rated pickup from the last 10 years and crash it against the highest rated compact SUV or sedan you will still fare better in the truck most crash tests aren’t relevant in day to day life. They are just a simple guideline
Those trucks are illegal in America do to the fact that they well are front heavy to the point that they flip constantly. Its not dumb to ban an item that kills people from functioning. The entire beds of the K trucks weigh about 20 pounds but the front weighs about 500 pounds. The K trucks are designed where the weight is pushed forward. They are also front wheel drive and they are front wheel breaking. So when they break the back flies up and they flip. When going down hill they back flies up and they flip They are too low to the ground in the back to where the gravity has to be even ground or they flip.
Who cares if you do not tailgate and drive like an idiot you will be fine. I’ve been driving over 45 years and had one accident many years ago where I was following to close. 2 second following rule works.
The only reason why the bed is that small is because most Americans buy a truck as a status symbol anymore. Most of those guys don’t need a bed and probably can’t use a hammer lol
I suppose it’s all about what you call real work. I know that there really is that set of people, but basically everyone I know actually uses their trucks. I even bought a Kei truck a few years back, and almost instantly sold it. Payload capacity is like 1500lbs (at like 30kmh/20mph) including occupants. This means with two big sumbitchs in the front and 12x 80lbs bags of concrete in the back you are maxed out. Two people can mix and pour 12 bags in an hour. My F350 needs a whole pallet of concrete in the back (42 bags, about 3400lbs OR more than the weight of the whole kei truck fully laden) just to make it ride right. I can get 5 (technically 6) people and 3 pallets (126bags) of concrete to a job AND actually get it up 20% grades driveway. It gets better. On a highway trip I would get about 5-6mpg (possibly up to 8mpg if the drive was long enough). So even if the Kei truck got 40mph it would be losing the efficiency race at the 6th / of 10 trips. That’s not even including that the F350 would still get 12mpg towing the empty back meaning the Kei truck really lost on like the 4th or 5th trip. At 20miles each way the diesel would burn about 5 gallons of fuel. The Kei truck would burn its entire 10 gallon fuel supply in the 400 mile trip (20x2x10). The Kei truck was great for delivery and some tradesmen in the city, and even for some of us car guys that are just trying to move around body parts, tires, engines, etc.. they make sense, and they’re cool/obscure, but not what I would call a work truck.
@@_martian101 The regulation put a limit on how powerful a car's engine is depending on its weight. This was to prevent excess emissions from engines that were more powerful than they need to be. However they also held pickup trucks to these standards, but most pickups went over the limit since the law didn't consider the cargo the truck could carry, so am empty truck did have more than enough power to move itself. This lead to the trucks getting heavier so they could use the same engines. This probably very oversimplified and some details might be wrong, but to my understanding that's the gist of what happened.
A pick up truck was meant to be a utility vehicle not be a sports car. Pick Up trucks are meant for farmers, business workers and construction workers not be used for egotistical macho reasons.
@@jamesm.1467 Why would you not want to upgrade to the armored military vehicle that was designed for combat from the pickup you jerry rigged to do so? If anything your argument supports the Toyota truck, as it was seen as a good alternative until they got actual combat vehicles.
Americans are buying it though. So its not the lobbying. Its what people want and buy. If Americans quit buying these things and decide to drive motorized horse carriages, you'd be surprised how quickly the auto industry would provided them carriages to meet that desire.
Actually it's because of the EPA, ironically. There's a great video on RUclips that goes into detail about how certain EPA restrictions actually make it so small trucks that we used to have, like to the Ford Ranger or Toyota T100, can't legally be sold in the US anymore.
@@JSPHism How is it the only options? There are countless of sedans and station wagons, vans, that are a smaller alternative. It's the American people that buy these trucks. So the auto lobby satisfies the demand.
More like CORPORATE hunger for profit has them building and selling you much more truck than you need or want. Don't tell me the S-10 and Ranger didn't sell well. They would just rather sell you an F100 or Silverado. Sure, Ford is making the Maverick now, but have you priced one? It's not Uncle Sam that's deciding these MSRPs or making dealers charge over it!
They actually are trying to ban these. I'm so sad. It's because of safety but seriously someone needs to make a compliant truck in this size. Extended bed even. Be Top!
In India Kei trucks are fully commercial trucks. We have many small grocery stores in neighbourhoods and these trucks are used to transport goods in those small stores on daily basis. In our local language we call them "Chhota hathi" means "Small elephant"
Lookup CAFE regulations. There are dumb laws pushing the trucks to be bigger to avoid fuel economy targets based on the number of sq feet in a rectangle between the four wheels. We used to have small trucks like Tacoma and Ranger (in the 90's), and they cannot make them that small anymore due to US laws. This also impacts Canada since they are not going to make a vehicle for such a small market.
It's more a loophole the car industry was able to weasel in and nobody closed it. The car industry always wants to sell bigger cars as they're easier to make people believe are worth more. People will always pay more for a bigger car even if the value wasn't actually there.
@clockworkbadger2363 Bigger cars aren't actually safer, what they do is they just change the dynamics of a crash. If two cars crash the smaller one will take the bigger impact and forces, but in reality two larger vehicles hitting each other is just as bad or possibly worse than two small vehicles doing the same.
The laws you refer to would be the emission standards that a small truck does not have to meet and this is the reason for these so called trucks being pushed onto the public, they also have an awful safety record
I used to own a pickup truck. It was not a big truck to prove that I was an "alpha male." The problem is that everyone asked me to help them move, pick up crap, etc., for them.
@@toddsalisbury3851 you haven't seen the "ford f*cking ranger!" video memes out there. Rangers are extremely versatile, and I owned one for 20 years (and yes, everybody asked to borrow it to haul their stuff around).
@@beepbop6697 yea my ranger is great! But everyone looks for dude with bigger truck to help even if itd be easier with lower bed. Yea i dont have as wide of bed because i have the side step model but works great for kayaking and home depot trips
Asian vehicles do not meet most N. American emissions and safety standards. I had one in the Philippines and wanted to bring it back but it couldnt be registered here.
@@jerry-xx8mu The obesity statistics, man. 40% of population is obese, 30% overweight, and almost 8% morbidly obese. Which leaves 22% of Americans who are able to fit inside this thing.
I mean, he's completley right... in italy they have similar things, they call it ape car and it's a small thing that has 3 weels and a 50cc engine. Latley the company that produce it decided to make it with a 125cc engine by factory, not 50cc anymore, because they realized that 50cc wasn't enought. It can carry a lot of stuff, go where normal cars cant and it had (with 50cc engine) good pulling power at the cost of going like 5mph. Now with the new engine it goes much faster and has even greater power to weight ratio and for me that thing does wonder. They are hard to find because it's a really requested little thing between youngsters and by a little part old mans and people that work for tje county or f0r construction company.
That's what I thought. (Plus I have magic that protects my shit) Well, some crackhead stole my 95 hardbody PU and thrashed the engine and transmission overnight...after meticulously cleaning the cab, including the instrument display, in a meth-fueled cleaning binge...and BEFORE getting chased and tackled by cops for driving inside walks and up one way streets. Crackhead will learn to drive your manual transmission on the fly.
That's the kind of thinking that gets your trucks stolen. Have you forgotten that 99% of motorcycles are manual and all of those guys can drive a manual car that's nearly a million people alone not including semi truck drivers,car enthusiasts, immigrants, baby boomers. Millions of people in the USA can drive manuals
Wouldn't be a death trap if more people bought regular cars with crumple zones and safety features compared to these "light trucks" that can run over normal cars as easily as a sherman tank.
@@leonnitsch6508 how you going to pull trailers with anything but a fullsized truck? That would make road transportation of many many goods and services extremely expensive and difficult.
The mini truck is ok in Japan because the cars are small there and people drive slower but a deathtrap in the USA were people drive their 3 ton pickups like maniacs.
@@BrianCommentToyota has plants here chicken tax is nullified. Toyota would rather sell the Tacoma. Fact is the small cabovers are lame only good for tiny roads which america doesn't really deal with.
Its not like that, its the import regulations, different countries diff standards not only in emissions but also in safety features etc. oddly, yes, a big engine can be more efficient and less polluting than a smaller one when that smaller one has no systems in place to limit pollutants. To those who whine about the epa, you clearly didnt live in the time before these standards where on some days outside looked like a foggy day until you looked toward the sun and realized nope its not fog, the color of this crap means its a whole lot of shit in the air.
@@Leo-hwru there’s the CAFE standards for fuel economy, which (of course) allow higher fuel consumption for larger trucks. That’s perfectly fine, some jobs need a full size truck and all things being equal they need more fuel. The funny thing, though, is that they demand fuel economy 40+ mpg if you want to make a compact truck (not even kei sized, even if you just wanted one the size of the little old S-10’s and rangers etc.) meanwhile 20-something is good enough for a larger truck like the F-150. Because of this, it’s easier for manufacturers to meet regulations for full sized trucks.
Who, if not Americans, elects the American govts to represent them and implement their desires?! 😒🤣🤣🤣 'Entitled' puerile Americans - always looking for someone else to blame for their own shortcomings. SMH
The problem with bigger cars is they’re less safe for the people outside the car and in them. We should be aiming for everyone to be in more reasonable sized cars so everyone is safer
I’m not driving that tiny “truck” up a mountain road. It depends on where you live. Most truck owners need their trucks where I live and all of us really need 4x4 or AWD because it’s mountains. We have a lot of Subaru drivers and suv drivers, and they also do well. Anything that’s 4x4 or really good AWD. You can’t live in the mountains without it. And if you haul stuff or need multi-use, trucks are just the best option. I personally haul stuff constantly that I wouldn’t want in the back of an suv and I don’t work in construction, just an average homeowner taking things in an out, doing my own landscaping, home renovations & gardening etc. In the area I live in most people also have to haul their trash to the dump because the mountains means trash pickup is unavailable . I just downsized from having both an SUV as a primary and a small truck as secondary to a singular truck. Because I don’t need two vehicles but I absolutely need a truck. Definitely can’t do a small truck as primary with two kids, two dogs and the terrain here. Driving up high elevation on rough, narrow, gravel roads, no barrier between the edge and your vehicle is difficult driving. That little truck would absolutely never make it. I would not even attempt it, actually. If you’ve ever had to white knuckle your way backwards down a mountain you’d never risk it.
Nothing "dumb" about not buying something you can't legally register and drive unless it's at least 25 years old and already clapped-out. Change the laws so I can buy and drive a new one and I would in a heartbeat.
Don't tell the YT audience you want the laws changed - tell your politicians. Oh, sorry. I forgof. That's the responsibility of 'they'. You know. As in "they orta do sumfin". 🤣🤣🤣
They are also incredibly dangerous. They are designed for Japanese roads, with much lower speed limits. Even so, the crash scenes even in Japan at low speeds are sometimes horrible when these are involved.
@@biggtomm2000utAnd yet, I could drive a 50's Beetle on public roads legally. Don't see why Kei trucks should be singularly unique for 25-year-plus import or registration- outside of regulatory capture or political pearl-clutching.
@@theAsteriskit's any import car that the law applies to. there have been attempts to get rid of the law but american automakers have deep pockets and pay for a lot of lobbyists and whatever else it takes to make sure they don't have foreign competition.
@@Btobebone Oh, I'm not moaning merely about the import age restriction, but rather that I can restore or import nearly anything else that old, and the state will register it for public roads without batting an eye- but, come the Kei truck, my state will suddenly get very worried for my safety, and refuse to title or register it, even though I can still import and own it just fine under the federal 25-year-rule. That feigned sudden concern over safety- where **no** such concern is to be found for other vintage or collector vehicles- is my primary complaint. I don't buy their justification- that a Kei truck *specifically* is too dangerous to allow, where they have no issue with- say- an MG roadster, or a vintage 1940's motorcycle being registered and used on public roads. Bear in mind you can still- and many do, due to simpler mechanicals- operate a tractor-trailer from the eighties or far earlier, often lacking ABS, in interstate commercial use, without ABS and so forth, up to an 80K-pound gross. The amount of ire states afford Kei trucks in particular, ostensibly over safety, is laughable. Hell, I'd even be amenable to a restriction of no controlled-access roads for them, given their handling and size, but instead we just get a petulant, total refusal to title and register. They'll generally even let you title and register *other* Kei cars if they're old enough- just not a Kei *truck*. (In inquiry before deciding whether or not to purchase, they even said they would be able to register a Kei van based on the same core design, but not a Kei truck.) It's utter nonsense, capricious regulatory whimsy.
The only country in the world with so much freedom yet so many people are ashamed of this country calling America dumb. Leave and go to a 3rd world country then
@Leah-yz4rj You mean diesel prices? Country boys like me actually use the beds of their trucks, as well as haul trailers. We use diesel trucks due to that fact that there is so much more torque in the engine than a regular gas "truck". You'd know that if you actually knew hard working men.
well we buy normal trucks because they are comfortable and can be used for work you think that tiny k truck is comfy? also i highly doubt that has much towing power. The k truck is a street legal side by side
Everything makes sense if you just think instead of talk. An era of easy money printing made way for gainful employment and high wages that created complacency in the citizenry. Complacent citizens elected corrupt politicians who passed legislation that are backed by bribes and intense lobbying. This is giving way to an era of legalism where politicians are elected on their promises to pass laws that supposedly benefit the American people when in reality they rob Americans ability to live reasonable logical lives. All the while the Federal reserve uses its ability to print money has an international weapon to keep the rules-based international order in check while keeping its citizens to poor to create political change and unseat the tyrants in charge.
Soo it’s our fault YOU can’t live within your means? You need money to start out anywhere, not just America. Oh wow a dig at guns, y’all sure like our money though, sure like our support and tech. (Try stand on your own 2 feet) That’s the awesome part of America, you can get that little piss ant toy of a car, and I can have my 6 wheeled beast of a truck. It’s whatever floats your boat here.
@@fjbslgiefunny thing is, they say that as is they drive small vehicles. They still drive big suvs.... Also, it's just how it is being a liberal, you just think the other side are uneducated idiots, poor, driving in trucks they can't afford. The reality is much different, and imo, I've noticed a far more subtle racism in cities. The nicest people were in places I would have thought I'd get lynched originally.
you forgot the fact that the kei truck got lobbied the hell out of the USA by the US car manufactures banning them in several states, citing safety reasons. Which is a load of BS.
They are kinda unsafe considering the speed differences of Japan and America. Average Japanese speed limits are around 20-30mph - even highways are only 50mph most of the time. Much slower than in the US.
@@oat1000 I've been the owner of a 1995 Honda acty sdx 4x4 KEI truck for over 2 years and what you say is a lie You fail to mention the extreme dangers of Harley Davidsons or other motorcycles! Of course you will say that's a different class of vehicle, RIGHT 🤣 !!! Not a automobile ha ha 🤣 Look if you drive these Mini Trucks on secondary roads like 95 percent (city driving ) to the Home Depot or Loewes like most drivers do and use your brain 🧠 they are a safe efficient cost savings means of transportation! I love ❤️ my Honda acty, don't knock it tell you tried it!
@@oat1000 ehm im not trying to be an ass here or even trying to say that I'm knowledgeable, but the legal speed limit in Japan on highways is 60mph, and normal roads its 40 mph. its more like they cant get to those speeds because of traffic.
@@BRAINFxck10it's a mixture of both. Americans want larger vehicles because there are larger vehicles. If you're driving a Corolla and pull up next to an f250, you'll see that the bumper is about your head height. And then you imagine yourself getting T boned at an intersection, and that bumper taking your head completely off.
@@BRAINFxck10I will be willing to say I rather be hit in my 9,000lbs SUV than this tin can POS. And to boot, I don't need the extra expense of an extra vehicle on the insurance.
Dont blame americans. K-trucks have to be imported because of insane EPA legislation which makes buying a new small truck in the US nigh impossible, once imported it is also nigh impossible to legally drive them on roadways. Americans aren’t stupid. Politicians are.
Amen on politicians being stupid! Also, that smaller truck is made for just one thing. Hauling something in the bed. That's about it. Is it cheaper and economical to use? Sure it is. But, the bigger truck can do the same thing.... AND transport the entire family at the same time. It can haul more weight, tow a large trailer, like a 25' camper. It has higher ground clearance and can go more places off road. I can't even begin to imagine how many gadgets & options like GPS, Bluetooth, satellite stereo, remote start, memory steering wheel and pedal settings, heated and cooled 6 way power seats & steering wheel. Power windows, traction lock, on demand this and that, back up cameras and blind spot alarms. And, let's not get into the HUUUUGE list of aftermarket items available... like snow plows, auxiliary lights, lift kits, big tires and performance goodies....
Politicians did not advocate for these regulations. Half of the regulations on the books were DEMANDED by your forebears to combat corporate disregard for lives or safety and corporate avarice. And the other half were demanded by corporations to protect their profits or markets and to a lesser extent to keep Americans employed so they can afford to be consumers. Pull your head out of the simplistic drivel from Rupert Murdoch. These trucks are illegal because they don’t meet collision safety standards, emission standards, or because importing them would mean Honda and other manufacturers would have to stop selling OTHER vehicles on which they make a much larger margin in the US. E.g. Audi did not sell the TT in the US in 2006 because they are only allowed a specific average of fuel economy across all their brands, and the American market wanted their eight cylinder cars more than the 3.2 six. Once more, stop blaming politicians for the fact that the PEOPLE press for greater safety and cleaner air, and the US corporations don’t want foreign car manufactures to kill the domestic car industry. Car makers like Toyota kept making their trucks bigger because that is what Americans kept BUYING. But me, I bought a Maverick the moment they were available. Smaller truck. Decent mileage. Adequate power. Seats 5. Carries 1500 lbs in a bed just the right size. A mere 30k.
It's not the consumers. it's the policy makers who are dumb and not letting these trucks in for safety regulations. *edit: -Yes, you can IMPORT them yourself. It will likely cost more than what the truck is worth, which defeats the purpose of it being affordable. -Yes, we voted for these policy makers on the majority. But when was the last time anyone in the government cared about what voters think or want?
Not safety, CAFE. Based off of the wheel base vehicles need to have a certain mpg, small trucks like old rangers, S10s, Highluxes, and the like need to get over 50 mpg to be sold and imported otherwise there are penalties assigned. By making vehicles larger the manufacturers can avoid those penalties. A problem with the mpg is that it's not realistic and that many of the emission reduction measures installed in vehicles actually hurt your mpg
You can have them in the US, if you address the passenger side safety and emissions issues Or it has to be older than 25 years. Websites like boekei USA and cars from Japan sales em legally. idk why people keep saying that these are banned, they aren't. You just gotta meet the same regs every vehicle in the US does
Call me dumb then come to rural MN in a light to moderate snowstorm. I'm conservative as all get out and I drive a golf cart to work in the summer months. These mini trucks don't have what it takes to battle our winters, clearance, horsepower, traction, or insulation.
I’d say it’s about half and half, everyone knows someone with a huge truck, if you asked them to help move furniture they’d have a cat! No way! Not going to scratch up my truck! While the other half have families and jobs that require hauling things and coworkers and pulling trailers. It really is crazy, if all I’m doing is driving to and from the office, I want a little sports car! Fun to drive, sporty and comfortable, good on gas. Why people who don’t need trucks buy trucks makes no sense, it’s hard to park, rides rough, much harder to wash and keep clean. I’m a firm believer in buying the vehicle for the purpose you intend to use it for.
You got that right- when I was younger we had a 94 Mazda B2300. It was 69 inches wide - the 2024 ranger is 79”. Then again, *I’m* 10 inches wider than I was 30 years ago, so I guess I have no room to judge 😂
That's not correct. In 49 cfr part 523 there is no minimum size limitation on light duty trucks. There are minimum safety and of course other requirements that make engineering challenges in making things tiny. Plus marketing dictates Americans like big trucks..
@skippynj1979 It's just based on the wheelbase and track; the fuel mileage minimum is so high they can't meet it or fall just short of it they have to be big to meet fuel economy standards and achieve the required gas mileage. The EPA standards require small trucks to have a minimum of around 44.5 miles per gallon, making it difficult for them to meet the requirements... so government regulations are preventing us from having trucks like the old courier or s10, because those would get around 30 to 35 mpg which then makes people by trucks that get 15 to 22 mpg. So to save gas they are wasting it. Bureaucracy at work.
@@stweasel I wouldn’t blame it all on bureaucracy. The intention to make vehicles more efficient was “good” in theory; though arguably more aggressive than it should have been. A key problem is that manufacturers abused the hell out of loophole meant for bigger/taller vehicles. Trucks became huge. Sedans became bloated crossovers.
This vehicle would not work for my everyday needs. Sure, I go to the store with my truck, but I also work in heavy tools, pulling boats and pulling mentally disabled 16-year-old kids out of ditches in the winter because they try driving on icy roads they are not skilled enough to be on. But I also want to survive when someone crashes into me, and you think it won't happen. I'm telling you one wrong decision from a reckless or drunk driver will alter your life for good if you survive.
@@yaboidre5672I doubt that you're the current average size American, this person is referring to the new size not what Americans used to be in the early 2000s and earlier. Are you 350 lbs?? or under 200 (the old size)?
@@trophyscene5015i know americans are way overweight but i feel like you pulled 350lbs out of your ass because its pretty rare that I see someone THAT big
@@trophyscene5015 The average American man is around 200 lbs, which is still larger than most other countries around the world, but 350 lbs, really? lmao
@@TheYumpster Yeah. He spewed typical gen-z bullshit. If he actually thought about it, there are many cons to having a keil truck in america. The reason we never had the option was because of the chicken tax and the 25 year import rule. Our government blocked our freedom. Those trucks are good for inner city or sidewalk utilities, but not for rural areas or work. They can't drive highway speeds, haul weight, tow, haul a family, or last a million miles like a Cummins. That is the beauty of the American pickup. They can do most tasks well.
Statistically, these are actually safer than large trucks. Lobbying got them banned in the US because corpos wanted to get around emissions regulations.
@Minurz No they're not. Don't be delusional. A front end collision in this will likely destroy your legs. Probably also lack airbags. A crash between this and a Corolla, you'd likely die in this.
It's not dumb. Only 23 state ALLOW these on the roads, due to lack of seat belts , air bags , ect. Where I live WASHINGTON if you get caught driving on the roads it's a fine , impounded, and about 1200. To get it back .. some towns dont enforce it but I found out the hard way after waiting 2 yrs for delivery of mine.. State classified them as farm vehicles, off road only... Sucks😮
@@CorvetteC8ZR1 oh i didn't know that, it's expensive to maintain abroad. They are cheap to buy like the jetta but are notorious for having something go wrong within a few 10k miles.
@@MemeL0rd13 thats not even true. Thats all the fault of americans themselves. European cars need EURO95 or EURO98. You guys fuel it with shiddy 87 or 85 fuel and wonder why it breaks. Ive had german cars for 100.000 miles with 0 problems.
@@Aposte-quotation 100000 miles* is very little... Even the suzuki mehran can do 4-6 cycles before the engine needs to be replaced. Small mechanical issues can be fixed by yourself and tape.
@@MemeL0rd13 its because i never drive a car over 100.000. I sell it. I like newer cars. But what i meant was. I drove all kinds of german cars from new to a 100.000 with 0 issues. But ford raptors blow headgaskets every 30.000 miles i heard.
@@nathank2289our oversized trucks tend to kill anyone who isn’t also in an oversized truck that’s how my brother died his sedan got hit by a lifted pickup
This is my issue with the "truck culture". It's a bunch of city folks who want a truck for... reasons. They have inflated the market so now trucks are more expensive. Ridiculously so.
@@amateurcrastinator9523 exactly, the cabs are as fancy as a Bentley driving up the cost, they don’t have any ground clearance anymore, the ones on our ranch we use the most are a 69, 70, 72 Ford F-250 4X4s sure we have a couple nice ones for pulling horses and livestock. But wow a friend just bought a F-350 4x4 truck and it was 90000 Bucks ridiculous
I too have a real truck, rubber floor mats, manual roll up windows, manual transmission, lock/free hub front differential, manual shift transfer case. That truck has not been on the market now for 15 years. Today it's automatic junk for every thing. No manual lever to shift into 4WD, no a switch and motors move the same lever. Nothing but more automatic junk that breaks.
For some reason long beds seem to be harder to come by nowadays. I don't see why you wouldn't want a long bed. If you never haul stuff you probably shouldn't have a truck anyway. They cost more to insure because they cause more fatalities and they use more fuel. They also often blind others as the headlights are right at mirror level with sedans. Most truck owners I don't think consider or realize that as they often ride my ass when I'm doing the speed limit. No matter how close they get Im not speeding to please someone in a rush. Now even police with trucks and suv's are doing it however I suspect they are trying to push folks so they can then have a reason to pull you over. The Kei trucks should be allowed so we can have brand new ones in the US.
It's sad that people are trying to make that Japanese truck undrivable on roads. It's probably lobbying, because it is probably easier to make your competitor's products illegal than to actually compete with them.
They are not trying to make them illegal? They’re trying to make them undrivable on roads. Which is still stupid. Look how good of fuel mileage, the Volkswagen got how many barrels of oil you were saving there but they were bitch about the emissions and they’re trying to do that with gas engines to. Because supposedly electrics is better. Some of the older cars got a lot better fuel, mileage, my old car would sit for hour running, and the fuel gauge would not move, but I sit there with newer cars and I see the gas gauge Jess, dropping right down in minutes and they don’t want you to run them but I bet you that are the government doesn’t have the same rules on them
@bubbatools6701 the EPA does not exist to improve gas milage. A great deal of what the EPA, like many other aspects of every government does is try to justify their existence. Part of this is to create non existent problems. At some stage, you get to a point of diminishing returns and start chasing after shadows i.e. problems that do not exist or are not important to justify the effort or expense invested in the solution.. At this point l, the organisation's become burdensome rather than constructive. One does not have to look too far to see examples of this - just read up on things that have been banned recently or other issues that greatly enrich growing numbers of special interest groups. If one wants to see this in action look at the NRC that is so hide bound by regulation of their own making they have not approved a new Reactor Design in the last 50(?) Years in spite of Billions spent on meaningless paperwork.
American truck buyers are not dumb. Your K truck is a death trap. Sorry the US Gov has the EPA forcing our truck manufacturers build bigger trucks. (I still drive a 2003 Ford Ranger (small truck).
They don't make these for the American market anymore. Back in the 90's I drove a 1995 Nissan pickup, I loved it, it was dirt-cheap to buy new, economical and no-frills but rock solid durable and reliable.
The problem is NHTSA rigs the CAFE to keep the big 3 in business. The "footprint" rule Condo sized PUs get away with 16mpg Small schtuff now required to get 55mpg If a small Datsun size PU is imported there is a million dollar fine . . . But they have never clarified if that fine is per 😮 vehicle sold
Why these can’t be driven on the road is beyond me. If it’s “less safe for the driver” then why are motorcycles allowed. It’s dumb and needs to be changed.
Well, true. However, if we would stop allowing people with room temperature IQs and similarly shit credit scores to drive, our roads would be a bit safer... and less congested.
People who constantly rant about large trucks are usually those that have never had cause to need/own one. They're also likely the people policing disabled parking spots because the person doesn't 'look' disabled enough for them.
@@izza6998look it up, Californian fuel regulations cause giant cars. Fuel efficiency standards are based on a ratio of vehicle footprint. Bigger footprint, they can use less efficient engines. That's why all cars are ballooning in footprint. I love fuel efficiency regulations (I'm a hybrid/electric driver - money where my mouth is), but they need to reign in the vehicle footprints at the same time as ramping up efficiency requirements .
Anyone I know who actually uses their truck has a long bed. Like, I absolutely love these k trucks, and they're absolutely great for bringing feed around the farm, but they really aren't road safe to be a daily. Especially with the way that the big 3 are going and the trend of larger cars it would be insanely dangerous in an accident.
The problem with newer trucks is you can’t use them for a work truck unless you’re 6’4” and can reach over the side. Older trucks were belly button hight sides and the newer trucks are nipple to shoulder height.
Small pickups have always been popular in the States. However US politicians have eliminated the choice with the stupid chicken tax and idiotic EPA regulations.
@@carlenger9707 However, they still aren’t an actual thing being sold in America. The ones here are old, imported from elsewhere models, usually from Japan, sold on the secondary market.
Even if you bought it new and shipped it here from Japan, wouldn't the government refuse to give you license plates because of emissions standards and perhaps even safety standards? I'm not sold on the idea that Americans just don't want the small Japan truck. I've looked into buying a car from Mexico and bringing it over to Texas... Well, it's complicated to do that, legally.
We have overinflated safety regulations to make up for bad drivers. These trucks will never be sold as the automakers oppose any simple reliable transportation. Not enough profit in this. They only offer $60k trucks with multiple screens and heavily optioned that most cannot afford.
The funny thing is those big pick up trucks aren't really that safe. I'm pretty sure those, and SUVs, were made and pushed, marketing wise, was to get around safety regulations.
I have a 2009 Smart Fortwo that I have made several trips of over 200 miles. Only has a 10 gallon gas tank but only use a half tank during the 200 mile trip. 80 mph toll roads multiple times during the trip. Greatest gripe is no cruise on this older model.
@@user-bw4jm1bv1i Partially. Car manfacturers here in the states get a tax break on anything this made on a truck chassis, which SUVs are also made on, so they have way higher profit margins on them. They do get to ignore other rules and regulations like gas effciency and ride height, but the major draw is the tax break.
You speak foolishly Kei 'trucks' are absurdly small, underpowered and uncomfortable, unsafe and unable to safely haul more than a 6' trailer. The avg. American who barely uses the bed of their truck and haven't driven manual in 30 years would not be interested in a Kei 'truck'. You complain about f150s for 60k, here in Australia a Ford Ranger or Toyota Hilux will easily set you back 65-85,000. Have some perspective for goodness' sakes.
Take a look at the truck market right now. Dealers are hurting cause no one is buying. Manufacturers forcing dealers to stop pice gouging so the trucks will sell
The problem with small trucks is that they aren't capable of hauling an overinflated ego.
That truck limits the amount of passengers you can carry.
😂
Says the guy who can't afford a real truck!
LOL
@@conservativepatriot2837 said the guy with the hurt overinflated ego 😂
Oh dear, how the snowflakes melt…
I read somewhere that like 70% of truck owners don’t even use their trucks for truck purposes.
70% that’s a bit low
I'm one of those 70%. When my grandfather was in Hospice he wanted me to have his pick-up truck so I kept it. Not trying to justify it, just telling my story.
It’s closer to 90%
Because a majority have tiny peckers and this helps.
Isn't the purpose of a truck to look cool and burn lots of fuel?
One was made for actual work, the other is made to sell you the idea of hard work and get you in debt.
which is that?
The truth hurts!
Those K trucks are pretty amazing! I want to get one!
Can’t wait to “do work” hauling a skid steer or camper with a kei truck 😂 yea right
@@owenbearden5769 you have to remember, overseas anything above 7700lbs requires a commercial license/insurance/etc.
Iirc Japan is only around 7000lbs
It's more like we don't have a choice. American politicians decide to protect corporations instead of citizens.
Corporations create money
Citizens want handouts
I would support a corporation any day as well
And finally
You forget where you live
This is America a capitalist society
We will capitalize on anything including you
That's a fact
💯🇺🇸🥴
@@MartinGonzalez-sl2kjtruly a slave mindset.
@@MartinGonzalez-sl2kj It’s ironic that you mention handouts when corporations receive billions in bailouts and tax breaks-much bigger than anything the average citizen sees. Supporting corporations without understanding how they’re propped up by government aid shows a clear lack of knowledge about how capitalism actually functions. A strong economy relies on a balance between corporate success and the well-being of its citizens, not blind allegiance to one over the other. You might want to brush up on basic economics before throwing around terms like 'handouts' and 'capitalism' without context.
id 100% would rather be in the big truck than that small truck in an accident, people are compleltly forgeting about safety
@@ARTIF4CTT its because everyone started buying big dumb cars man...Japan doesnt have that problem because they dont worship Vehicles
80mph in that thing would feel like the shuttle launching
I used to own a Yugo GV.
You are not incorrect.
@@NarwahlGaming got the idea from my old chevette myself
lol 😛
Down hill with a tail wind.
yeah, small trucks and cars feel awesome to drive. favorite car i ever drove was a pos used geo metro in the 90s. went from detroit to baton rouge often on like 40 bucks, and felt like i was racing the whole time. couldnt kill the thing. got desroyed by a drunk driver smashing into it parked outside my moms one year.
“Now the engine is also tiny…”
*50% of Americans have left the chat*
Not even the issue of it being small, it just has no power.... beyond hauling things on pavement that weigh less than 600lbs, they're kind of useless.
U NAILED IT!
Yeah I need a V8 to drive on the streets in the city
Having a V8 is Americana 🇺🇸
@@marcusbrown188 Absolutely. a 150cc V8 :D
Complain to congress, light cargo vehicles have an insane tariff on them.
Meh, American car companies don't produce them either because nobody wants to drive those kids toys.
@@farzana6676 guess you weren't around before the 90s, when the epa finally killed that market. Smaller work vehicles were really popular.
@Alex-dh2cx I was born in the 90's. Ford Ranger is a mid size truck and despite being huge on the international market, it did dismal numbers in the USA because nobody wants these small baby trucks.
@@farzana6676 they sold over 300,000 units a year of the ford ranger in the 90s. S10 wasn't that far behind the ranger. That's half the sales of the f150, but still well ahead of most other models. You're just full of shit
@@farzana6676tons would love these cheap cars/trucks but tariffs are high and American companies don't build them because they want the higher profits of the more expensive cars.
I never understood why people buy pickup trucks as family cars, they are not family cars.
Yes they are
@@Techlevel1534. no they’re not, trucks are for hauling, and covering tough terrain. SUVs are for families.
@blendo12345 I mean I have an old s 10. I don't use it as a work truck often. But it is helpful when I move too and from college. That's why I like smaller trucks, you have the bed if you need it but it's not a huge waste if you don't use it often
@blendo12345 nah an estates car is better family vehicle it has more space and is more efficient and safe by far (station wagon)
@@blendo12345and they can be used as family cars. That’s why they are better because they can do all those things and have a family of 4/5 in them.
Trucks aren’t utility vehicles anymore, they are luxury vehicles.
Facts. My Dad (retired now) was a tradesman his whole life. He used to buy a new pickup truck every three years in the 80s and 90s. They were cheap. No normal person wanted them. And then they started making the quad cab and adding all sorts of bells and whistles to the interior that where once you wouldn't give a crap about getting in dirty, now it would be like getting in someone's Bentley with mud on your boots.
Damn straight. Love it. Heated seats and wheel are really nice when working in the winter.
@@ozvega.57dude thats bs, i live in western nc (clay county) and ppl drive jacked up trucks that are as clean as my mustang. Most dudes who drive them around here do not do any type of work involving these trucks. I hate those things so much lol
And are priced accordingly.
@@senorjuanwick9818 As a neighbor just a bit more east, don't worry too much. They're getting laughed at by anybody who is A. not in the same car and B. not in the same kind of car.
I work in a lumber yard and it’s hilarious when people come in with those big trucks and have never hauled anything in them. They’re always so cautious of scratching the truck bed.. ITS A TRUCK BED
If your truck bed isn't scratched and beat up, are you even a truck owner?
It feels like nonsense when people don't have liners in their truck beds. Why drive a vehicle that's horrible for driving and has poor storage space if you're not actually using the main feature of it
@@udttdujgx they HAVE LINERS in them and stillll don’t want scratches 😂 they put down cardboard, blankets. I’ve seen it all
either that or they don't want your lazy ass to just throw shit in carelessly
It’s because they pay close to 100k on them
In Iraq I used to see those bongo trucks loaded to the max with goats, people, produce and miscellaneous tools. I can confirm that those little trucks are a workhorse 😂
@@thejoatmooBecause the large truck is just not sustainable for a smooth running society.
in indonesia, that same small truck can carry more than 10 people in the back, and very illegal 😅
They were toyota hilux, another vehicle not allowed to be sold in the US.
bonggo is the name of KiA comercial truck😅 like Hyundai Porter. it represented by overloaded cargo. in developing era, S.Korean workers love overload. so 1 ton allowed Bonggo and Porter reinforce their body strenth upto 3 tons.
@@jongsookim636Bongo isn’t the official name but we definitely called these Bongos in the military.
also those trucks just became available for importation and the government bean counters and lawyers already want to get it banned😢
i heard they're only allowed for off-road use.. I would love to get one to be able to get moved into my new house but i doubt i'd be allowed to drive it on the road without getting a ticket
@@eyadhamza3147it’s all about money
@@eyadhamza3147 here in TN they made it off road only so it is basically a paperweight if you wanted to use it for say grocery shopping. Lobbying at its finest
Thats why we should all call or senators, Congressmen , council
That sucks all I want is the hilux 😢 in Asia right now and every one is driving them. That and surprisingly, the ford ranger 😂
70% of americans wouldnt fit in the cab
Yes they need that big truck to go to Mickey D's
Damn
😂😂
LMAO!
no wonder most mexican called us el hefty when they talk to us.😅😅
Ford should’ve never changed the Ranger bruh. They literally made the ideal small truck and they just said nah
Honestly, if Ford brought back the Ranchero and had an AWD (like a Subaru), I'd be all over that shit
Exactly Ford pickup trucks were much smaller in grandads day and you'd better believe granddad got everything done with that truck. These ginormous trucks Americans are brainwashed into purchasing and going in huge debt are ridiculous as a mass buy.
@@tw8464 there hasn’t been anything my 2003 Ranger hasn’t been able to do. I only have 2WD also. They don’t want to ever make a simple, practical truck for blue collar workers anymore because they’ll lose money when people start doing their own repairs again! When my Ranger inevitably dies I’m going to get another early 2000’s Ranger.
Actually they make small single cab pickups
@@sorrowcat2724 exactly you're absolutely right. I miss the Rangers. They used to be widely available and could get them used for very affordable prices. Miss those days. Would love to see Ford bring back a solid affordable Ranger.
If toyota sold a truck the size of the 80's pickup with a manual transmission and no computers, manual transfer case, and hand crank windows I would never buy anything else. Until then I'll keep my manual tacomas running as long as I can.
Landcruiser J series?
And that’s why they have to sell stuff that you’ll have to keep coming back for the new series.
Yup i got full manual t100. Fuel injectoed but im an ex Toyota ASE tech
Isn't that the truth I would buy one in a second..
The problem is you would buy one because it would last forever. That's no good, we need repeat customers
Americans don't buy trucks with big motors and big beds to use as a work truck: These trucks are mainly used to drive to work, the lake, the park and are not necessarily purchase as a work truck....
Funny because you could do the same thing with a normal car.
@@CarlosFlores-mp6xg you know that how?
@@JCTheSniper15 because Asia and Europe does it
@@JCTheSniper15 an estate car is made for that and will always be better than a SUV or pickup
@LightBlue-l5j it absolutely will not. An estate car won't tow my landscape trailer with 2 mowers on it. Nor will it transport a load of gravel. Nor will it tow my 6 horse trailer.
There are a ton of people in the US that still actually haul and tow and work blue collar jobs. You can't just spray out the back of your estate car with a hose after you throw an old toilet and a bunch of ripped out tile in the back to take to the dump.
The idea that an estate car is "always better than a pickup" just shows that you have no idea whatsoever what people use pickup trucks for.
2 days ago I ripped out a whole bunch of carpet and padding at a house where they had very badly behaved cats. You want me to try to jam 800 square feet of pee-stained carpet, padding, and tack strips in the back of a station wagon, and then drive to the dump with the back gate open? No thanks. Pickups are far superior for that. I was very happy to be driving an F-150.
The issue is that in the US small trucks are restricted on a federal level and cannot be driven on a highway. On top of that the EPA has laws against small engines because they arnt as efficient for their size as say a big block V8.
Stupid i know but unfortunately the US auto industry is locked down by legislation lobbied into being by the likes of Ford, Gm and Dodge.
End lobbying.
The V8 restriction is the most stupid thing I've ever heard..
State level.
Theres an article on a guy trying to make them street legal in Colorado and he was railroaded by local car dealers and others. Shit was infuriating to read.
Yeh they sell them here but they are now trying to regulate them to make it so you can't register a license plate for it because supposedly "it's not safe for public roads" meanwhile you register a classic Ford with no doors or roof and drive that on the freeway.
As a person who live where these small trucks/pickups are the norm, driving these things at our not-so-fast highway are indeed scary 😅..
Ive been driving 1000cc Suzuki Carry and Daihatsu Hijet, i won't push myself beyond 80km/h in these things. I can't imagine people driving them on American highway. Slight breeze or a small hatchback passing you probably could make them wiggle. Tough, outside highway they will be fine.
Slightly bigger pickups like Mitsubishi L300 or Australian utes probably make more sense for American highway..
Doesn't matter at all as these trucks are imported from times before those regulations and also because they are imported they don't have to meet the US regulations as long as they meet the requirements to be able to be imported. If not they get blacklisted to import
Thinking Americans choose trucks for their practicality is like thinking celebrities get plastic surgery for their health.
On the stop moaned hard on this one
Preparedness > practicality
@@bluezdrwhat preparedness American trucks have?
Well believe it or most Americans use their trucks sorry you don’t know how to hook a trailer up that small ass truck would be used like a golf cart in most places of work it’s pretty useless except for mulch and gravel honestly
Every office worker I see that drives a Silverado 3500 is a poser.
Pick ups do have practicality to them as the bed on the are able to be taken off and changed into something else like that other vehicles configuration or put something else but the frame is so beefy that it was designed to haul much more than the average office workers equipment.
Plus engines in modern pickup trucks now use cylinder deactivation and stuff to get better gas millage but it is all unreliable.
The worst thing to happen to Toyota was when they stopped making the mini-truck
I hear they've come out with a new one priced at 10k
@@blazebi47 yup. Can’t wait to see it. Hopefully it’s not an EV or hybrid.
And never effected there stock 1 bit
@blazebi47 it will probably never see US soil unfortunately.
Toyota still makes the kei trucks under the badge of Daihatsu. Toyota owns Daihatsu.
55 hp will get you rear ended if you even think about merging onto a highway
I would drive that for sure. My biggest fear is all these tiny women in monster trucks that can't hardly see over the steering wheel using me as a speed bump.
Empowerment.
Im female and I agree lol. I drive an odyssey because I have 3 kids and I can haul a lot in it when I need to.
Lmao! Small women with big cars. Why does this happen tho?
Me I'm the woman with the monster truck. I'm kind of tall though and my truck is big due to being a camper hauler
A little yellow light on top to signal to Karen and her army of children shes always distracted by.
I don't need a truck, I just need a friend with a truck.
You're one of the smart ones buster. People in America will buy a 2000 square foot house and the top line tundra, for 1 person and complain that they can't afford anything.
as long as Im american, i can easily find a friend with a truck.
i got a middle aged man, an elderly man, and a young adult friend... ALL with trucks.
at least the older men have jobs they use their trucks for.
1) lawn care 2) Mobile Auto Repair 3) the young guy just uses it as a personal vehicle 😅
Personally I love SUVs. its a masculine family car. that I can use for commuting 28 city 34 highway mpg, it has up to 70 cubic feet of storage, a panoramic sun roof.
I have a love-hate relationship with its price. i got it brand spanking new and i plan on keeping it till the wheels fall off, BUT.... its a nissan rogue so im kinda concerned for its reliability rating.
but so far so good, ive put on every mile from 000 054 until its current 75k miles.
my favorite was 69,420. 😂😂😂 and 50k.
but what does suck is my towing capacity is only 1000 lbs. but again 99% of my driving is EXTREMELY FUEL EFFIECIENT for a non hybrid SUV. if push comes to shove, I can Pay U-Haul or Home Depot $20 to rent a truck. again, I got lots of American friends with trucks. so why waste my money on a gas guzzler when I dont work with freight.
much respect to truck drivers, but I hate em. gas is also much quieter than diesel trucks. jyah jyah jyah jyah jyah jyah jyah jayh... brum bruum brumm.
my dads truck was so loud, we could sneak as kids to turn off the games and TV when my folks got home. then they got a Car. and so many gotcha moments cuz gas is just so much more quiet.
And both of his brothers!
Hi guys! I ordered pizza for after the heavy stuff ❤❤
And a six pack.
Exactly
I live in Japan these trucks are one step above riding in clown car. Super uncomfortable tin cans. I know a few people that own them specifically to haul large things that can't fit in our tiny cars. The roads here in japan are super narrow so trucks and cars are built a lot smaller than US cars.
Does the truck from Japan meet US safety and government standards?
@@MatthewSchrenk Nope. That's why you almost rarely see them here. Granted US import regulations are kinda ridiculous.
@@noco7243 My guy 😂 the biggest problem with these tiny trucks it they literally can’t go 60mph on a highway without blowing up speaking to a non American about our cars and roads is pointless they have zero knowledge and can’t comprehend America
this would make more sense if the larger truck in this video wasn't literally a japanese truck.
@MatthewSchrenk I mean it has breaks and seatbelts so maybe. Lol
Overinflated egos in the comments justifying death traps that achieve the worst of both cars and trucks
I swear 90% of the people I know with big trucks never haul anything big to justify their truck.
thats what the auto industry wants!!!!
Its all about status
Get for some reason whenever people need to get fertilizer mulch or need to move they always call the guy with the truck
@@simplelogic9090 Wow, thats amazing. Ill buy a truck and sit around waiting for calls from people moving or buying mulch so I can haul them around and show off the power of my truck.
@Carlos-jp6mg what status? A guy on a moped looks cooler than a guy in a practically self driving living room. Most trucks are just regular traffic.
The main issue is that a Kei truck will be absolutely obliterated in an accident with Karen's $80,000 lifted extended cab 4x4.
The main issue is America’s car dependency then lol
Whilst this is true, this is also America, land of the FREE. Meaning anyone should have the FREEDOM to CHOOSE to take the risk of harm to oneself in the event of an accident. I've seen this argument over and over again, and my rebuttal to said argument is this: motorcycles. These aren't safe? Motorcycles are less safe. Want to ban these? Whelp, I guess motorcycles should also be banned
I heard that so many times......
It haven't stopped me from riding my Harley....
When your time comes, you can be in an Abraham M1 Tank (capable of surviving a nuclear blast) and still drown in a canal.....
(True story)
That happened in the Irak invasion.
@@ixCGAMExi i never insinuated that the ban on Kei vehicles should continue. The ban is stupid. But the massive vehicle epidemic precludes people adopting smaller vehicles. Its the same reason not everyone rides motorcycles. The general trend will continue because the consensus remains that larger car= safe from other cars, whether or not this is true is up for debate.
@@zenlikestate96 I actually believe that the large car epidemic is the result of the auto manufacturers skirting around fuel efficiency regulations
The government doesn't want them on the road. It would really put a dent in the fuel and the truck market.
They’re also horrible in crashes.
Motorcycles are the worst. But those are legal...just saying.
Big corporations don’t want them on the road, ergo the government doesn’t.
Honestly I think it more has to do with the near 100% mortality rate in crashes. Because other 35 mpg trucks exist. And are legal. But they also don’t put the driver in a flimsy cab right in front of the load, in most cases anyway XD
@@ElCapitanGamesnot to mention these trucks with 2 full grown men can easily flip forward when brakes are applied and it’s going to fast. It’s hilarious to see a truck somersault tho
Check your state laws before looking for one. Example: in Florida they’re only legal in roads where the speed limit is 35mph or less
Ban cars and have everyone ride motorcycles instead and traffic is solved permanently
When the words "manual transmission" arrived, 99% Americans left.
I prefer manual however this mini truck wouldn’t do what I would need it too!
Crazy the amount of people thinking they’re pulling 10 yds of mulch with one of these… like are we really classifying people who use their truck as a work truck as dumb .. crazy
Somebody who owns a truck for no reason, I guess but that’s may even be ego / desire to feel big or safe who tf knows
theft deterrent.
All 4 of my vehicles are manual. An each has their own purpose.
Why is automatic transmission standard in the US
Bold of you to assume American trucks are bought for their use as practical haulers.
Exactly. Hes just as dumb as the people he called dumb
They are. Just their primary cargo is people
@@fatpad00 And Ego.
@@eragon78 maybe you should get one then with your inflated ego. Mr snowflake
not really bold if it’s true. Most people who buy SUV and Trucks do not use them for their primary purpose. Suv and trucks serve as a clever marketing strategy to sell cars and to get people to buy more, bigger things. Back then, trucks were never a popular driving choice. Now, trucks represent a certain lifestyle and belief system to many Americans. it’s all a fantasy created by marketers. for instance, people buy 4x4 thinking they’ll need it when in reality the most they’ll ever touch is some snow. Or in commercials, theres a reason a man in a big deep voice is telling you to buy a truck and drive it thru mud and canyons and shit (cuz it looked cool and that image sells to men with cash) but in reality, no one offroads, hauls, and carries payload everyday (or ever lol think 4runner moms) unless you work in a specific industry which most people don’t. of course there are exemptions but the numbers don’t lie, most people should be driving sedans but capitalism, ego, and american culture stand in the way.
"What Americans should be buying are these small Japanese trucks that they don't sell in America"
"made for resupplying small convivence store and deliveries to people living on hills and mountains and not any kind of heavy hauling at long distanced with uneven terrain."
They are sold but they are not street legal in many states. They work great on farms and in woods. Might want to change the wheels to UTV or ATV wheels and tires.
@@derekpopp7546no way you’re suggesting this tiny two wheel drive truck with zero clearance is somehow capable off-road lol
@@allegorx58 they work great, sure they won’t go through deep sand and flying of huge rocks but they’ll drive through farm fields, a few inches of mud, snow. Which is what 99% of pickups do. And most “off road” vehicles don’t see anything beyond a paved road.
@@allegorx58 Clearly said that it was 4wd, and if needed, lift kits are available for anything. I used to have a '77 Datsun 720, standard height, took it out in sand and rough stuff all the time.
No problems. Why? Because it was so light. Also knowing how to drive in that terrain helps.
Trucks are one of those things that are awesome… when you NEED them.
Those trucks are illegal in America do to the fact that they well are front heavy to the point that they flip constantly. Its not dumb to ban an item that kills people from functioning. The entire beds of the K trucks weigh about 20 pounds but the front weighs about 500 pounds. The K trucks are designed where the weight is pushed forward. They are also front wheel drive and they are front wheel breaking. So when they break the back flies up and they flip. When going down hill they back flies up and they flip They are too low to the ground in the back to where the gravity has to be even ground or they flip.
@@jordancambridge4106 are you paid by the Americlown car industry or just ignorant?
1. SUVS and pick ups are the death machines
The us passenger fatality rate triple because of the and I think there are new regulations that make them safer.
They are safer to drive safer for cyclists and pedestrians better for cities and fuel economy while having a larger bed with more space and I think the engine and fuel than back wheels and other things are under the bed to keep it from overturning. These trucks are made for for working not for the family and they are better at working than modern pick-up trucks
@@jordancambridge4106 you comment is out of date and also is full of auto manufacturers propaganda
Not all of the Kei trucks will do over 65 mph with the engine screaming. They are better suited for city/rural roads.
Cz Cz g.a
He said it _will_ do 80+, not that the engine would be happy doing so. I'm sure it would be screaming in the top of 5th to do 80 MPH, and most certainly not getting 35 MPG.
Not to mention the fact that it's completely unsafe beyond 35 MPH in a frontal collision.
No safety of any kind, really. Absolutely better suited for low-speed, rural or inner-city, use.
If you want to cruise at 80 MPH on the way home with a couple bags of groceries in the bed, buy the Tundra.
If you live in Japan, buy a Kei truck because you'll be hard pressed to park a Tundra at the grocery.
@@tynewlinYes but the main point in the video is not just about the differences between the trucks, but our cultures themselves. In Japan you will not find many vehicles on the streets big enough to kill the occupant of a Kei vehicle at regular inner city speeds. In fact most passenger vehicles on the roads are Kei cars and all kei cars are built to be safe in crashes with other kei cars. Then you need to understand that Japanese drivers tend to take great pride in their driving skill and penalties for violations are bad enough. But if you do something stupid or not pay attention and cause a bad accident, you will be charged, you will go to jail and serve HARSH time and there is no probation. Again differences between cultures not the trucks themselves.
@@AcuraLvR82he is saying we should buy those little toys.
We carry loads or tow boats or trailers.
That's smaller than a Honda Civic with a space for a payload it can barely support safely.
You also need parts support and warranty support.
I think this video shows two extremes.
The 1999 and newer ones that are about to be import legal will definitely do about 70 mph all day, which is all you really need. People try to drive too fast nowadays and most don't have the skill for it. Also, if we started importing these officially to the US they could put slightly larger motors to up the power to more like 100hp. India, for example, gets them with slightly larger engines.
You will 100% die in an accident in that truck though.
Tommy I love you but only a stupid person would drive that little truck in America. Who do you think gonna win in an auto accident in that little thing?
That model year tundra has the worst crash test rating !
@@SuperSm13Crash tests are only relevant if you are hitting an immovable object as the IIHS does dont get me wrong the IIHS has contributed to much safer cars but if you take the worst crash rated pickup from the last 10 years and crash it against the highest rated compact SUV or sedan you will still fare better in the truck most crash tests aren’t relevant in day to day life. They are just a simple guideline
Deer lease truck!
@@Austin-cg7beto hell w all that it'll still crush like sardine can
It's our governments fault. The bigger the vehicle. The less emission rules.
Emissions are the problem these aren't street legal because of it.
100% correct! It is why most car makers aren't making gas cars anymore. They don't want to meet the emissions requirements.
@@StantonCole most car makers are making gas cars? Where do you live? What planet?
Those trucks are illegal in America do to the fact that they well are front heavy to the point that they flip constantly. Its not dumb to ban an item that kills people from functioning. The entire beds of the K trucks weigh about 20 pounds but the front weighs about 500 pounds. The K trucks are designed where the weight is pushed forward. They are also front wheel drive and they are front wheel breaking. So when they break the back flies up and they flip. When going down hill they back flies up and they flip They are too low to the ground in the back to where the gravity has to be even ground or they flip.
@@jordancambridge4106Bro is disingenuously saying "The entire bed is 20lbs" like the engine and transmission aren't right under it 😭😭
You couldn't give away that "truck" in America, that thing is a death trap.
"Where is the front crumple zone?"
"It sits here and controls the vehicle."
Fr tho 😂
@@manne8575envious of getting smashed into a dough in a minor front end collision?
On the back xD
@@Chicken_cocknballsoup7376 Oh sorry man, I misunderstood the first comment. I'm actually all for big trucks! Lol.
Who cares if you do not tailgate and drive like an idiot you will be fine. I’ve been driving over 45 years and had one accident many years ago where I was following to close. 2 second following rule works.
The only reason why the bed is that small is because most Americans buy a truck as a status symbol anymore. Most of those guys don’t need a bed and probably can’t use a hammer lol
Yess!
You rarely see cargo on pickup trucks that wouldn't fit in a station wagon or even a compact car. That's for sure.
You mean you city folk, right?
I suppose it’s all about what you call real work. I know that there really is that set of people, but basically everyone I know actually uses their trucks. I even bought a Kei truck a few years back, and almost instantly sold it. Payload capacity is like 1500lbs (at like 30kmh/20mph) including occupants.
This means with two big sumbitchs in the front and 12x 80lbs bags of concrete in the back you are maxed out. Two people can mix and pour 12 bags in an hour.
My F350 needs a whole pallet of concrete in the back (42 bags, about 3400lbs OR more than the weight of the whole kei truck fully laden) just to make it ride right.
I can get 5 (technically 6) people and 3 pallets (126bags) of concrete to a job AND actually get it up 20% grades driveway.
It gets better. On a highway trip I would get about 5-6mpg (possibly up to 8mpg if the drive was long enough). So even if the Kei truck got 40mph it would be losing the efficiency race at the 6th / of 10 trips.
That’s not even including that the F350 would still get 12mpg towing the empty back meaning the Kei truck really lost on like the 4th or 5th trip.
At 20miles each way the diesel would burn about 5 gallons of fuel. The Kei truck would burn its entire 10 gallon fuel supply in the 400 mile trip (20x2x10).
The Kei truck was great for delivery and some tradesmen in the city, and even for some of us car guys that are just trying to move around body parts, tires, engines, etc.. they make sense, and they’re cool/obscure, but not what I would call a work truck.
@@jkent9915
Just get a Mercedes Sprinter Pritsche 🤷🏼♂️
It's way better as a working vehicle.
🐓🐆😹😁
“We should be buying these”
-points to vehicle that can’t be sold in US…
why?
@@_martian101Poorly thought out environmental regulations. They literally do the opposite of their intention.
@@macaroon_nuggets8008 so you think it's against US regulations? Why?
@@_martian101 The regulation put a limit on how powerful a car's engine is depending on its weight. This was to prevent excess emissions from engines that were more powerful than they need to be. However they also held pickup trucks to these standards, but most pickups went over the limit since the law didn't consider the cargo the truck could carry, so am empty truck did have more than enough power to move itself. This lead to the trucks getting heavier so they could use the same engines. This probably very oversimplified and some details might be wrong, but to my understanding that's the gist of what happened.
It"s the EPA's Cafe standards.
@@_martian101
A pick up truck was meant to be a utility vehicle not be a sports car. Pick Up trucks are meant for farmers, business workers and construction workers not be used for egotistical macho reasons.
I’m not saying a Ford F-150 can’t mount a .50 cal heavy machine gun. But I know for a fact that a Toyota can.
Actually, these little trucks are Hondas, not Toyotas.
Ask the Taliban...oh wait, they've upgraded now to US Military vehicles already...
@@jamesm.1467 Why would you not want to upgrade to the armored military vehicle that was designed for combat from the pickup you jerry rigged to do so?
If anything your argument supports the Toyota truck, as it was seen as a good alternative until they got actual combat vehicles.
Narcos in Mexico mount machine guns in the back of F150s and from the videos I’ve seen they work just fine for the purpose.
That's all you see being used by the taliban. And as we all know, they have discriminating taste....
You can blame the US auto industry for lobbying to make any sensible truck illegal here in the US.
Americans are buying it though. So its not the lobbying. Its what people want and buy. If Americans quit buying these things and decide to drive motorized horse carriages, you'd be surprised how quickly the auto industry would provided them carriages to meet that desire.
Actually it's because of the EPA, ironically. There's a great video on RUclips that goes into detail about how certain EPA restrictions actually make it so small trucks that we used to have, like to the Ford Ranger or Toyota T100, can't legally be sold in the US anymore.
@@LS-Motoamericans are buying it bc its the only option lol
@@JSPHism How is it the only options? There are countless of sedans and station wagons, vans, that are a smaller alternative. It's the American people that buy these trucks. So the auto lobby satisfies the demand.
@@LS-Moto if you want a truck that's the only option
Keep in mind: GOVERNMENT regulations decide that small truck isn't legal. Not American citizens.
Not illegal, just too regulated to be as profitable as these useless big trucks. That’s why they aren’t made here
More like CORPORATE hunger for profit has them building and selling you much more truck than you need or want. Don't tell me the S-10 and Ranger didn't sell well. They would just rather sell you an F100 or Silverado. Sure, Ford is making the Maverick now, but have you priced one? It's not Uncle Sam that's deciding these MSRPs or making dealers charge over it!
@@BigOldCarChannel uncle sam decided on fuel efficiency regulations that bigger vehicles are largely exempt from.
@@thiccum2668 , they're called CAFE standards if i recall correctly.
@@thiccum2668 , well, if you regulate something to the point that it's too expensive to reasonably pursue, it may as well be illegal.
They actually are trying to ban these. I'm so sad. It's because of safety but seriously someone needs to make a compliant truck in this size. Extended bed even. Be Top!
In India Kei trucks are fully commercial trucks. We have many small grocery stores in neighbourhoods and these trucks are used to transport goods in those small stores on daily basis. In our local language we call them "Chhota hathi" means "Small elephant"
Kahaka chota hati
@@9amfunny302 Maharashtra mein chota hathi bolte hai
@@adityaunde4134This was due to an ad in 2005-06 or earlier if you remember. The marketing campaign for Tata Ace labelled it as chhota hathi.
@@adityaunde4134hamare yaha up , Delhi me bhi chota hathi bolte hai 😂
Chota hati hi bolte har jagah india me
Lookup CAFE regulations. There are dumb laws pushing the trucks to be bigger to avoid fuel economy targets based on the number of sq feet in a rectangle between the four wheels. We used to have small trucks like Tacoma and Ranger (in the 90's), and they cannot make them that small anymore due to US laws. This also impacts Canada since they are not going to make a vehicle for such a small market.
This. Several videos done on this topic. That said the bigger vehicles do leave room for more impact safety I’d hazard a guess
It's more a loophole the car industry was able to weasel in and nobody closed it. The car industry always wants to sell bigger cars as they're easier to make people believe are worth more. People will always pay more for a bigger car even if the value wasn't actually there.
@clockworkbadger2363 Bigger cars aren't actually safer, what they do is they just change the dynamics of a crash. If two cars crash the smaller one will take the bigger impact and forces, but in reality two larger vehicles hitting each other is just as bad or possibly worse than two small vehicles doing the same.
The laws you refer to would be the emission standards that a small truck does not have to meet and this is the reason for these so called trucks being pushed onto the public, they also have an awful safety record
bingo!
I used to own a pickup truck. It was not a big truck to prove that I was an "alpha male." The problem is that everyone asked me to help them move, pick up crap, etc., for them.
Thats why you get a smaller truck like the old ranger models or the s10! Nobody asks me for shit 🤣
😂😂😂😂
@@toddsalisbury3851 you haven't seen the "ford f*cking ranger!" video memes out there. Rangers are extremely versatile, and I owned one for 20 years (and yes, everybody asked to borrow it to haul their stuff around).
@@beepbop6697 yea my ranger is great! But everyone looks for dude with bigger truck to help even if itd be easier with lower bed. Yea i dont have as wide of bed because i have the side step model but works great for kayaking and home depot trips
So you think having a truck makes someone an Alpha male?! 😊
It's not the consumers fault when the mini trucks aren't even offered for sale in America.
You can blame the american government for that. Small trucks are basically banned. Companies are not aloud to make them.
Asian vehicles do not meet most N. American emissions and safety standards. I had one in the Philippines and wanted to bring it back but it couldnt be registered here.
@@johnkidd1226 I read that most cars in China don't have catalytic converters so they can sell the cars even cheaper
@@des5748 Correct.
Honda Ridgeline, Tacoma, avalanche, a few that are smaller then average. Still very infrequent
I don't think these were designed for Americans. Most Americans would simply not fit between the seat and the steering wheel.
😂Umm reason being
@@jerry-xx8mu The obesity statistics, man.
40% of population is obese, 30% overweight, and almost 8% morbidly obese.
Which leaves 22% of Americans who are able to fit inside this thing.
I mean, he's completley right... in italy they have similar things, they call it ape car and it's a small thing that has 3 weels and a 50cc engine. Latley the company that produce it decided to make it with a 125cc engine by factory, not 50cc anymore, because they realized that 50cc wasn't enought. It can carry a lot of stuff, go where normal cars cant and it had (with 50cc engine) good pulling power at the cost of going like 5mph. Now with the new engine it goes much faster and has even greater power to weight ratio and for me that thing does wonder. They are hard to find because it's a really requested little thing between youngsters and by a little part old mans and people that work for tje county or f0r construction company.
They also were not designed with any safety standards in mind.
@@giannamolinari3065 Dude Ape is EVERYWHERE in India. I think it's perfect for India
Another advantage. You can leave a manual car unlocked in the US. Nobody is going to be capable to drive away with it.
Without even bringing have to shift left handed into the equation.
That's what I thought. (Plus I have magic that protects my shit) Well, some crackhead stole my 95 hardbody PU and thrashed the engine and transmission overnight...after meticulously cleaning the cab, including the instrument display, in a meth-fueled cleaning binge...and BEFORE getting chased and tackled by cops for driving inside walks and up one way streets.
Crackhead will learn to drive your manual transmission on the fly.
That's the kind of thinking that gets your trucks stolen. Have you forgotten that 99% of motorcycles are manual and all of those guys can drive a manual car that's nearly a million people alone not including semi truck drivers,car enthusiasts, immigrants, baby boomers. Millions of people in the USA can drive manuals
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😅😂😅😂😅
"I'll take the death trap" - Said very few people ever.
Wouldn't be a death trap if more people bought regular cars with crumple zones and safety features compared to these "light trucks" that can run over normal cars as easily as a sherman tank.
@@leonnitsch6508 how you going to pull trailers with anything but a fullsized truck? That would make road transportation of many many goods and services extremely expensive and difficult.
@@trentp151the Dutch can pull trailers with normal cars
The mini truck is ok in Japan because the cars are small there and people drive slower but a deathtrap in the USA were people drive their 3 ton pickups like maniacs.
@@trentp151 the duch pull trailers and trailer homes with regular cars
Toyota sells the FJ70 truck all over the world. America is the only place on earth where you can't buy one. Our government won't let them in.
hey Toyota does not sell ANY 4x4 in south korea. ANY 4X4. Including Lexus.
Bc of Chicken 🐔 Tax
@@BrianCommentToyota has plants here chicken tax is nullified. Toyota would rather sell the Tacoma. Fact is the small cabovers are lame only good for tiny roads which america doesn't really deal with.
These things are everywhere here in the states. I drove one just the other day. Very popular with local contractors.
It's more theaat they won't sell here, due to the American mentality towards trucks. The government has nothing to do with it.
Not Americans, it is the government regulation around emissions. Can't sell small trucks without a fine. Big trucks are better according to the EPA.
Its not like that, its the import regulations, different countries diff standards not only in emissions but also in safety features etc. oddly, yes, a big engine can be more efficient and less polluting than a smaller one when that smaller one has no systems in place to limit pollutants. To those who whine about the epa, you clearly didnt live in the time before these standards where on some days outside looked like a foggy day until you looked toward the sun and realized nope its not fog, the color of this crap means its a whole lot of shit in the air.
American car manufacturers don't feel it's worth the cost and trouble to put emission controls on smaller and lower priced trucks.
I think your confusing the EPA with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)
@@Leo-hwru there’s the CAFE standards for fuel economy, which (of course) allow higher fuel consumption for larger trucks. That’s perfectly fine, some jobs need a full size truck and all things being equal they need more fuel.
The funny thing, though, is that they demand fuel economy 40+ mpg if you want to make a compact truck (not even kei sized, even if you just wanted one the size of the little old S-10’s and rangers etc.) meanwhile 20-something is good enough for a larger truck like the F-150.
Because of this, it’s easier for manufacturers to meet regulations for full sized trucks.
Who, if not Americans, elects the American govts to represent them and implement their desires?! 😒🤣🤣🤣
'Entitled' puerile Americans - always looking for someone else to blame for their own shortcomings. SMH
I don't need a truck. I need a big comfy car that can haul plywood and a refrigerator.
You need a van.
Vans are so much better for most things
Do you carry plywood and refrigerators every day though?
The problem with bigger cars is they’re less safe for the people outside the car and in them. We should be aiming for everyone to be in more reasonable sized cars so everyone is safer
I legit transported a fridge in a Mitsubishi Mirage hatch. That thing was crazy.
I’m not driving that tiny “truck” up a mountain road.
It depends on where you live. Most truck owners need their trucks where I live and all of us really need 4x4 or AWD because it’s mountains. We have a lot of Subaru drivers and suv drivers, and they also do well. Anything that’s 4x4 or really good AWD. You can’t live in the mountains without it. And if you haul stuff or need multi-use, trucks are just the best option. I personally haul stuff constantly that I wouldn’t want in the back of an suv and I don’t work in construction, just an average homeowner taking things in an out, doing my own landscaping, home renovations & gardening etc. In the area I live in most people also have to haul their trash to the dump because the mountains means trash pickup is unavailable . I just downsized from having both an SUV as a primary and a small truck as secondary to a singular truck. Because I don’t need two vehicles but I absolutely need a truck. Definitely can’t do a small truck as primary with two kids, two dogs and the terrain here. Driving up high elevation on rough, narrow, gravel roads, no barrier between the edge and your vehicle is difficult driving. That little truck would absolutely never make it. I would not even attempt it, actually. If you’ve ever had to white knuckle your way backwards down a mountain you’d never risk it.
Japan is a mounatious country and they don't have any problem with those trucks
Nothing "dumb" about not buying something you can't legally register and drive unless it's at least 25 years old and already clapped-out. Change the laws so I can buy and drive a new one and I would in a heartbeat.
Don't tell the YT audience you want the laws changed - tell your politicians.
Oh, sorry.
I forgof.
That's the responsibility of 'they'.
You know.
As in "they orta do sumfin". 🤣🤣🤣
They are also incredibly dangerous. They are designed for Japanese roads, with much lower speed limits. Even so, the crash scenes even in Japan at low speeds are sometimes horrible when these are involved.
@@biggtomm2000utAnd yet, I could drive a 50's Beetle on public roads legally. Don't see why Kei trucks should be singularly unique for 25-year-plus import or registration- outside of regulatory capture or political pearl-clutching.
@@theAsteriskit's any import car that the law applies to. there have been attempts to get rid of the law but american automakers have deep pockets and pay for a lot of lobbyists and whatever else it takes to make sure they don't have foreign competition.
@@Btobebone Oh, I'm not moaning merely about the import age restriction, but rather that I can restore or import nearly anything else that old, and the state will register it for public roads without batting an eye- but, come the Kei truck, my state will suddenly get very worried for my safety, and refuse to title or register it, even though I can still import and own it just fine under the federal 25-year-rule.
That feigned sudden concern over safety- where **no** such concern is to be found for other vintage or collector vehicles- is my primary complaint. I don't buy their justification- that a Kei truck *specifically* is too dangerous to allow, where they have no issue with- say- an MG roadster, or a vintage 1940's motorcycle being registered and used on public roads.
Bear in mind you can still- and many do, due to simpler mechanicals- operate a tractor-trailer from the eighties or far earlier, often lacking ABS, in interstate commercial use, without ABS and so forth, up to an 80K-pound gross. The amount of ire states afford Kei trucks in particular, ostensibly over safety, is laughable. Hell, I'd even be amenable to a restriction of no controlled-access roads for them, given their handling and size, but instead we just get a petulant, total refusal to title and register.
They'll generally even let you title and register *other* Kei cars if they're old enough- just not a Kei *truck*. (In inquiry before deciding whether or not to purchase, they even said they would be able to register a Kei van based on the same core design, but not a Kei truck.) It's utter nonsense, capricious regulatory whimsy.
Ask the epa why they're dumb about emissions per wheelbase inch, not Americans.
the govt ruins everything
@@KJ-ho6sb That's an easy excuse, but where does the government come from?
@@everthealtruist Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.
The United Staates is a mafia-state run by oligarchs enslaving the people, that is the true reason.
The only country in the world with so much freedom yet so many people are ashamed of this country calling America dumb. Leave and go to a 3rd world country then
95% of American pickup truck owners have never put a damn thing in the beds of their trucks.
Good thing I'm apart of the 5%. Country boy, mofo.
And they're the same people who bitch about gas prices.
@Leah-yz4rj You mean diesel prices? Country boys like me actually use the beds of their trucks, as well as haul trailers. We use diesel trucks due to that fact that there is so much more torque in the engine than a regular gas "truck". You'd know that if you actually knew hard working men.
@@TattsnGunsyour insecurities are showing.
@@pavocica531 More like my facts, which you don't like. That's a you problem.
well we buy normal trucks because they are comfortable and can be used for work you think that tiny k truck is comfy? also i highly doubt that has much towing power. The k truck is a street legal side by side
We have a nation full of poor people, deeply in debt, driving around in vehicles they can’t afford that keep them poor. Make it make sense.
yeah, I see in order to participate the life in America, one must have some wealth just to start
Gotta have somethin' to tote all them guns around in. Freedom!
Everything makes sense if you just think instead of talk. An era of easy money printing made way for gainful employment and high wages that created complacency in the citizenry. Complacent citizens elected corrupt politicians who passed legislation that are backed by bribes and intense lobbying. This is giving way to an era of legalism where politicians are elected on their promises to pass laws that supposedly benefit the American people when in reality they rob Americans ability to live reasonable logical lives. All the while the Federal reserve uses its ability to print money has an international weapon to keep the rules-based international order in check while keeping its citizens to poor to create political change and unseat the tyrants in charge.
Soo it’s our fault YOU can’t live within your means?
You need money to start out anywhere, not just America.
Oh wow a dig at guns, y’all sure like our money though, sure like our support and tech. (Try stand on your own 2 feet)
That’s the awesome part of America, you can get that little piss ant toy of a car, and I can have my 6 wheeled beast of a truck. It’s whatever floats your boat here.
@@fjbslgiefunny thing is, they say that as is they drive small vehicles. They still drive big suvs.... Also, it's just how it is being a liberal, you just think the other side are uneducated idiots, poor, driving in trucks they can't afford. The reality is much different, and imo, I've noticed a far more subtle racism in cities. The nicest people were in places I would have thought I'd get lynched originally.
you forgot the fact that the kei truck got lobbied the hell out of the USA by the US car manufactures banning them in several states, citing safety reasons. Which is a load of BS.
That is good! My opinion.
You're absolutely correct, but isn't it strange that they don't regulate motorcycles which are far more dangerous?
They are kinda unsafe considering the speed differences of Japan and America. Average Japanese speed limits are around 20-30mph - even highways are only 50mph most of the time. Much slower than in the US.
@@oat1000 I've been the owner of a 1995 Honda acty sdx 4x4 KEI truck for over 2 years and what you say is a lie
You fail to mention the extreme dangers of Harley Davidsons or other motorcycles! Of course you will say that's a different class of vehicle, RIGHT 🤣 !!! Not a automobile ha ha 🤣
Look if you drive these Mini Trucks on secondary roads like 95 percent (city driving ) to the Home Depot or Loewes like most drivers do and use your brain 🧠 they are a safe efficient cost savings means of transportation! I love ❤️ my Honda acty, don't knock it tell you tried it!
@@oat1000 ehm im not trying to be an ass here or even trying to say that I'm knowledgeable, but the legal speed limit in Japan on highways is 60mph, and normal roads its 40 mph. its more like they cant get to those speeds because of traffic.
Truck manufacturers won't let us have those
More like unhinged government safety standards, import laws, and the chicken tax. Blame your government before the manufacturer.
@@OriginalBongoliath And who lobbied for those laws? Oh, right, the auto manufacturers.
The EPA won't let us have those
@@Cybermauldo you even know what lobbying is?
@@TocnaelStarcraftI second the epa argument
The Tundra is CHEAPER!
No, Americans aren’t “kinda dumb” The small truck industry is non existent due to lobbying and legislation.
They kinda are tho
Both are true
dumb* legislation
@@savagemode2150As an American, I can confirm that I have an IQ of 30
It’s both. Most Americans eat up the propaganda fed to them by corporate America
Americans have told me that they need a big truck because it increases their freedom.
Dealers don’t have small trucks available
No one told you that 😂
Yall lie so much to push your agendas.. its sad..
They hold it right there in the back, you see.
@@jimjohnson4072Maybe try driving one of these big trucks in Europe?
Can’t argue with that. Now, if it wouldn’t reduce their freedom to control their car and ability to transport themselves per fuel unit with empty bed…
90% of Americans would gladly get the smaller truck. But there are some stupid things called regulations that mean it will never happen
No they wouldn’t, Americans like big trucks because it makes them feel safer
same reason why SUV’s are preferred over wagons in America
@@BRAINFxck10it's a mixture of both. Americans want larger vehicles because there are larger vehicles. If you're driving a Corolla and pull up next to an f250, you'll see that the bumper is about your head height. And then you imagine yourself getting T boned at an intersection, and that bumper taking your head completely off.
@@BRAINFxck10I will be willing to say I rather be hit in my 9,000lbs SUV than this tin can POS. And to boot, I don't need the extra expense of an extra vehicle on the insurance.
They are too fat to fit in one
@@BRAINFxck10If you were right the regulations wouldn’t exist.
My neighbor has two of those tiny Honda trucks, with giant bongs mounted on top, to promote his glassworks business.
Dont blame americans.
K-trucks have to be imported because of insane EPA legislation which makes buying a new small truck in the US nigh impossible, once imported it is also nigh impossible to legally drive them on roadways.
Americans aren’t stupid.
Politicians are.
Amen on politicians being stupid!
Also, that smaller truck is made for just one thing. Hauling something in the bed. That's about it. Is it cheaper and economical to use? Sure it is.
But, the bigger truck can do the same thing.... AND transport the entire family at the same time. It can haul more weight, tow a large trailer, like a 25' camper. It has higher ground clearance and can go more places off road. I can't even begin to imagine how many gadgets & options like GPS, Bluetooth, satellite stereo, remote start, memory steering wheel and pedal settings, heated and cooled 6 way power seats & steering wheel. Power windows, traction lock, on demand this and that, back up cameras and blind spot alarms.
And, let's not get into the HUUUUGE list of aftermarket items available... like snow plows, auxiliary lights, lift kits, big tires and performance goodies....
@SPCLPONY
And that is nice im not denying that........
But what if you dont actually want any of that and just want a cheap small truck?
@@SPCLPONY You just explained your debt right there lmao
and yet Americans repeatedly elect the very politicians who will regulate them into more unaffordable trucks.
Politicians did not advocate for these regulations. Half of the regulations on the books were DEMANDED by your forebears to combat corporate disregard for lives or safety and corporate avarice. And the other half were demanded by corporations to protect their profits or markets and to a lesser extent to keep Americans employed so they can afford to be consumers. Pull your head out of the simplistic drivel from Rupert Murdoch. These trucks are illegal because they don’t meet collision safety standards, emission standards, or because importing them would mean Honda and other manufacturers would have to stop selling OTHER vehicles on which they make a much larger margin in the US. E.g. Audi did not sell the TT in the US in 2006 because they are only allowed a specific average of fuel economy across all their brands, and the American market wanted their eight cylinder cars more than the 3.2 six.
Once more, stop blaming politicians for the fact that the PEOPLE press for greater safety and cleaner air, and the US corporations don’t want foreign car manufactures to kill the domestic car industry.
Car makers like Toyota kept making their trucks bigger because that is what Americans kept BUYING.
But me, I bought a Maverick the moment they were available. Smaller truck. Decent mileage. Adequate power. Seats 5. Carries 1500 lbs in a bed just the right size. A mere 30k.
"if you have a family this probably won't work for you" as I'm explaining to my wife that I'm ordering myself a Christmas gift...
men need more brave in their lives
you go bro :)
U be divorced soon 😂
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It's not the consumers. it's the policy makers who are dumb and not letting these trucks in for safety regulations.
*edit:
-Yes, you can IMPORT them yourself. It will likely cost more than what the truck is worth, which defeats the purpose of it being affordable.
-Yes, we voted for these policy makers on the majority. But when was the last time anyone in the government cared about what voters think or want?
Who votes for the policy makers? The consumers?
You can buy these in the US
Not safety, CAFE. Based off of the wheel base vehicles need to have a certain mpg, small trucks like old rangers, S10s, Highluxes, and the like need to get over 50 mpg to be sold and imported otherwise there are penalties assigned.
By making vehicles larger the manufacturers can avoid those penalties. A problem with the mpg is that it's not realistic and that many of the emission reduction measures installed in vehicles actually hurt your mpg
You can have them in the US, if you address the passenger side safety and emissions issues Or it has to be older than 25 years. Websites like boekei USA and cars from Japan sales em legally. idk why people keep saying that these are banned, they aren't. You just gotta meet the same regs every vehicle in the US does
My state government won't allow these to be licensed for road use.
Call me dumb then come to rural MN in a light to moderate snowstorm. I'm conservative as all get out and I drive a golf cart to work in the summer months. These mini trucks don't have what it takes to battle our winters, clearance, horsepower, traction, or insulation.
Not entirely true, some Americans DO need a big truck to haul their ego around.
😂😂😂😂
I’d say it’s about half and half, everyone knows someone with a huge truck, if you asked them to help move furniture they’d have a cat! No way! Not going to scratch up my truck! While the other half have families and jobs that require hauling things and coworkers and pulling trailers. It really is crazy, if all I’m doing is driving to and from the office, I want a little sports car! Fun to drive, sporty and comfortable, good on gas. Why people who don’t need trucks buy trucks makes no sense, it’s hard to park, rides rough, much harder to wash and keep clean. I’m a firm believer in buying the vehicle for the purpose you intend to use it for.
"Some" is the keyword there.
Also they're big huge American balls
@@bojed offended? Obviously we can read that the OP wrote"some"...
Government regulations prevent smaller trucks... that's why a Ranger is the size of an old f150.
You got that right- when I was younger we had a 94 Mazda B2300. It was 69 inches wide - the 2024 ranger is 79”. Then again, *I’m* 10 inches wider than I was 30 years ago, so I guess I have no room to judge 😂
That's not correct. In 49 cfr part 523 there is no minimum size limitation on light duty trucks. There are minimum safety and of course other requirements that make engineering challenges in making things tiny. Plus marketing dictates Americans like big trucks..
@skippynj1979 It's just based on the wheelbase and track; the fuel mileage minimum is so high they can't meet it or fall just short of it they have to be big to meet fuel economy standards and achieve the required gas mileage. The EPA standards require small trucks to have a minimum of around 44.5 miles per gallon, making it difficult for them to meet the requirements... so government regulations are preventing us from having trucks like the old courier or s10, because those would get around 30 to 35 mpg which then makes people by trucks that get 15 to 22 mpg. So to save gas they are wasting it. Bureaucracy at work.
@@stweasel
I wouldn’t blame it all on bureaucracy. The intention to make vehicles more efficient was “good” in theory; though arguably more aggressive than it should have been. A key problem is that manufacturers abused the hell out of loophole meant for bigger/taller vehicles. Trucks became huge. Sedans became bloated crossovers.
So why doesn’t government require “ALL” vehicles to shrink in size….? Say…by 3 feet.
95% of pickup truck owners don't need a pickup truck
same with suv's. I only drive a car
I 100% don't care about your opinion.😅
@@Kenneth-kz9it yes you do. Otherwise you wouldn't have committed.
@@Kenneth-kz9it Ok boomer. As if I ever cared about your feelings
@@scott3805 well many of the owners of large suvs like Chevrolet suburban have them for the space and not for the cargo capacity
This vehicle would not work for my everyday needs. Sure, I go to the store with my truck, but I also work in heavy tools, pulling boats and pulling mentally disabled 16-year-old kids out of ditches in the winter because they try driving on icy roads they are not skilled enough to be on.
But I also want to survive when someone crashes into me, and you think it won't happen. I'm telling you one wrong decision from a reckless or drunk driver will alter your life for good if you survive.
Considering the average size of an American, that mini-truck isn't going to work there
Average size American here.
You lost me?????
@@yaboidre5672I doubt that you're the current average size American, this person is referring to the new size not what Americans used to be in the early 2000s and earlier. Are you 350 lbs?? or under 200 (the old size)?
@@trophyscene5015 Under 200. Is it that bad???
@@trophyscene5015i know americans are way overweight but i feel like you pulled 350lbs out of your ass because its pretty rare that I see someone THAT big
@@trophyscene5015 The average American man is around 200 lbs, which is still larger than most other countries around the world, but 350 lbs, really? lmao
This is the longest way to say "Not everyone needs a truck" ever. But I respect it.
It's also the longest way to Walmart, because you are not driving that on the highway with a top speed of 50 mph. It is actually illegal. What a tool.
@@keilmillerjr9701 Interesting reply
@@TheYumpster Yeah. He spewed typical gen-z bullshit. If he actually thought about it, there are many cons to having a keil truck in america. The reason we never had the option was because of the chicken tax and the 25 year import rule. Our government blocked our freedom. Those trucks are good for inner city or sidewalk utilities, but not for rural areas or work. They can't drive highway speeds, haul weight, tow, haul a family, or last a million miles like a Cummins. That is the beauty of the American pickup. They can do most tasks well.
@@keilmillerjr9701The top speed is 80+mph, this was even stated in the video.
@@peggedyourdad9560 That is in kilometers per hour, which equates to about 50 miles per hour.
Government: It's unsafe in crashes
The vehicle: has 40hp
regardless of the power figure you are almost guarunteed to pass away after 35mph
Yeah it turns out that the horsepower and speed of the other guy still matters in a crash, genius
Ya the only issue is that you are the crumple zone
Statistically, these are actually safer than large trucks. Lobbying got them banned in the US because corpos wanted to get around emissions regulations.
@Minurz No they're not. Don't be delusional. A front end collision in this will likely destroy your legs. Probably also lack airbags. A crash between this and a Corolla, you'd likely die in this.
It's not dumb. Only 23 state ALLOW these on the roads, due to lack of seat belts , air bags , ect. Where I live WASHINGTON if you get caught driving on the roads it's a fine , impounded, and about 1200. To get it back .. some towns dont enforce it but I found out the hard way after waiting 2 yrs for delivery of mine.. State classified them as farm vehicles, off road only...
Sucks😮
"Buying trucks just to carry groceries and give friends a lift" that doesn't mean buy a Japanese truck, that means buy a VW Golf
Repair costs for a VW, "hello, having too much fun are we?"
@@CorvetteC8ZR1 oh i didn't know that, it's expensive to maintain abroad. They are cheap to buy like the jetta but are notorious for having something go wrong within a few 10k miles.
@@MemeL0rd13 thats not even true. Thats all the fault of americans themselves. European cars need EURO95 or EURO98. You guys fuel it with shiddy 87 or 85 fuel and wonder why it breaks. Ive had german cars for 100.000 miles with 0 problems.
@@Aposte-quotation 100000 miles* is very little... Even the suzuki mehran can do 4-6 cycles before the engine needs to be replaced. Small mechanical issues can be fixed by yourself and tape.
@@MemeL0rd13 its because i never drive a car over 100.000. I sell it. I like newer cars. But what i meant was. I drove all kinds of german cars from new to a 100.000 with 0 issues. But ford raptors blow headgaskets every 30.000 miles i heard.
The small one has another advantage. When you get in a wreck, all your problems instantly fade away.
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true that lol!!
“I don’t feel so good Mr stark.”
Not that our oversized tin-cans actually protect anyone over 30mph but it's nice to pretend, I guess.
@@nathank2289our oversized trucks tend to kill anyone who isn’t also in an oversized truck that’s how my brother died his sedan got hit by a lifted pickup
Most Americans don’t even use their trucks for truck things, us ranchers do and a lot of farmers and people in the trades do
Yep, no way in hell that dinky thing is gonna haul a hay bale or pallets of feed *anywhere* lol.
This is my issue with the "truck culture". It's a bunch of city folks who want a truck for... reasons. They have inflated the market so now trucks are more expensive. Ridiculously so.
@@amateurcrastinator9523 exactly, the cabs are as fancy as a Bentley driving up the cost, they don’t have any ground clearance anymore, the ones on our ranch we use the most are a 69, 70, 72 Ford F-250 4X4s sure we have a couple nice ones for pulling horses and livestock. But wow a friend just bought a F-350 4x4 truck and it was 90000
Bucks ridiculous
@dusty7264 Exactly. Now, thanks to the epa rules and the absurd costs of trucks, I'm looking for something much older now.
I too have a real truck, rubber floor mats, manual roll up windows, manual transmission, lock/free hub front differential, manual shift transfer case. That truck has not been on the market now for 15 years. Today it's automatic junk for every thing. No manual lever to shift into 4WD, no a switch and motors move the same lever. Nothing but more automatic junk that breaks.
For some reason long beds seem to be harder to come by nowadays. I don't see why you wouldn't want a long bed. If you never haul stuff you probably shouldn't have a truck anyway. They cost more to insure because they cause more fatalities and they use more fuel. They also often blind others as the headlights are right at mirror level with sedans. Most truck owners I don't think consider or realize that as they often ride my ass when I'm doing the speed limit. No matter how close they get Im not speeding to please someone in a rush. Now even police with trucks and suv's are doing it however I suspect they are trying to push folks so they can then have a reason to pull you over. The Kei trucks should be allowed so we can have brand new ones in the US.
Most pickup drivers never use their truck to haul things.
Most pick up trucks are company owned as write offs...
No they don't lol.
I'd be interested to see some evidence for that claim, or is that just your anecdotal experience?
The majority of spotless lifted trucks I see don’t even have a trailer hitch attached.
Small pick up trucks carry a whole lot of stuffs
It's sad that people are trying to make that Japanese truck undrivable on roads. It's probably lobbying, because it is probably easier to make your competitor's products illegal than to actually compete with them.
Not corporations. It is the EPA and the CAFE fuel economy standards.
They are not trying to make them illegal? They’re trying to make them undrivable on roads. Which is still stupid. Look how good of fuel mileage, the Volkswagen got how many barrels of oil you were saving there but they were bitch about the emissions and they’re trying to do that with gas engines to. Because supposedly electrics is better. Some of the older cars got a lot better fuel, mileage, my old car would sit for hour running, and the fuel gauge would not move, but I sit there with newer cars and I see the gas gauge Jess, dropping right down in minutes and they don’t want you to run them but I bet you that are the government doesn’t have the same rules on them
Why would EPA try to ban a better gas mileage truck? @@luctous
@bubbatools6701 the EPA does not exist to improve gas milage. A great deal of what the EPA, like many other aspects of every government does is try to justify their existence. Part of this is to create non existent problems.
At some stage, you get to a point of diminishing returns and start chasing after shadows i.e. problems that do not exist or are not important to justify the effort or expense invested in the solution..
At this point l, the organisation's become burdensome rather than constructive. One does not have to look too far to see examples of this - just read up on things that have been banned recently or other issues that greatly enrich growing numbers of special interest groups.
If one wants to see this in action look at the NRC that is so hide bound by regulation of their own making they have not approved a new Reactor Design in the last 50(?) Years in spite of Billions spent on meaningless paperwork.
@@luctous pretty sure these will pass the fuel economy requirements easily, despite it's outer appearance it have fairly modern engine
American truck buyers are not dumb. Your K truck is a death trap. Sorry the US Gov has the EPA forcing our truck manufacturers build bigger trucks. (I still drive a 2003 Ford Ranger (small truck).
They don't make these for the American market anymore. Back in the 90's I drove a 1995 Nissan pickup, I loved it, it was dirt-cheap to buy new, economical and no-frills but rock solid durable and reliable.
The 4th branch of government is to blame for this.
I had one 1988 Nissan hardbody and I loved it. Manual 5 speed, no options but the radio. If they sell it today that's what I would drive.
Doesn’t the government restrict the sales of these because of lobbyists?
The problem isn’t really the American consumer
Yep and the bone head comments get 41k likes while this SMART comment gets 27. RUclips IS IN ON IT
The problem is NHTSA rigs the CAFE to keep the big 3 in business.
The "footprint" rule
Condo sized PUs get away with 16mpg
Small schtuff now required to get 55mpg
If a small Datsun size PU is imported there is a million dollar fine . . . But they have never clarified if that fine is per 😮 vehicle sold
@@dbpropertymaintenance8660Maybe the bonehead is you?
@@dbpropertymaintenance8660 you ok dude?
@@user-zx5gg8od6l it’s not “hate”…it’s money
Why these can’t be driven on the road is beyond me. If it’s “less safe for the driver” then why are motorcycles allowed. It’s dumb and needs to be changed.
Gotta love government rules and regulations!
That's because bikers are organ donors so many organs are not necessary.
You can register for road use in maine but I have a cousin in CT who has one registered. I think MA might allow them as well.
@@MrPooreboythey should drive in the copenhagener lanes and have the same policy as a TUK TUK .
I see em all of the roads here in wv, but so are 4 wheelers, no insurance no tags
Kei trucks aren’t allowed on most us highways and they lack pretty much all tech most don’t even have ac plus the import fees are insane
That Kei truck has the crash protection of a beer can.
just don't crash
You drive to crash? 😂
That's the moral of this story, without the ego trip of having a parking lot beauty, there will be smaller of the same.
@@ErdingerLino one plans for accidents. That's why they're called accidents, genius.
Well, true. However, if we would stop allowing people with room temperature IQs and similarly shit credit scores to drive, our roads would be a bit safer... and less congested.
This issue is quite a bit deeper than "haha aMeRiCaN sO DuMb" and it gets into auto industry regulation and inport/export laws.
Ok bozo go back to the economy class
Yeah.
People who constantly rant about large trucks are usually those that have never had cause to need/own one.
They're also likely the people policing disabled parking spots because the person doesn't 'look' disabled enough for them.
Lol no. Big trucks are just better, a big truck is a business/asset. That tiny thing is a golf cart with a bed.
@@izza6998look it up, Californian fuel regulations cause giant cars. Fuel efficiency standards are based on a ratio of vehicle footprint. Bigger footprint, they can use less efficient engines.
That's why all cars are ballooning in footprint.
I love fuel efficiency regulations (I'm a hybrid/electric driver - money where my mouth is), but they need to reign in the vehicle footprints at the same time as ramping up efficiency requirements .
“Only to carry one person to and from Walmart every now & then” 100% accurate
Those people should not be buying trucks.
@@blackngoldfan2004 yeah but those are the people buying the lifted trucks with lo-pro tires too so we know they arent doing it for the gas mileage
@@SinSpawn9000 Ironically they are usually the loudest at complaining about gas prices as well.
To get extra small condoms
Are we assuming this person doesn’t drive a empty truck to and from work everyday?
Anyone I know who actually uses their truck has a long bed. Like, I absolutely love these k trucks, and they're absolutely great for bringing feed around the farm, but they really aren't road safe to be a daily. Especially with the way that the big 3 are going and the trend of larger cars it would be insanely dangerous in an accident.
America: we’ve turned working trucks into consumer goods and put corn syrup into oatmeal
And we wonder why everyone has diabetes
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@@danorem9969because of the trucks?
The problem with newer trucks is you can’t use them for a work truck unless you’re 6’4” and can reach over the side. Older trucks were belly button hight sides and the newer trucks are nipple to shoulder height.
@@jimfields9491 thats what im saying! Trucks went from being sold for utility and carrying things to looking imposing and having comfy backseats
We dont need kei trucks anymore than we need oversized trucks. What we need are the old rangers, s10, sonoma, dakotas and tacomas. But, CAFE...
Small pickups have always been popular in the States. However US politicians have eliminated the choice with the stupid chicken tax and idiotic EPA regulations.
Keep politicians in the circle things will never change
Tell those chicken chokers to choke on this chicken 😂
Make S-10s great again!
Tell those chicken chokers to choke on this chicken 😂
@firefly lol, name a career politician that won't screw things in some way lol
"We should be buying THEEEESE." Except that THESE things aren't able to be bought.
Yeah at first you had to import them but enough people are realizing how useful they are, there are more out there in America than you might think.
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However, they still aren’t an actual thing being sold in America.
The ones here are old, imported from elsewhere models, usually from Japan, sold on the secondary market.
Exactly, I was going to reply the same thing.
@@WCS-xp9lupeople can buy them if you wanted too
Even if you bought it new and shipped it here from Japan, wouldn't the government refuse to give you license plates because of emissions standards and perhaps even safety standards?
I'm not sold on the idea that Americans just don't want the small Japan truck. I've looked into buying a car from Mexico and bringing it over to Texas... Well, it's complicated to do that, legally.
They need to bring the mini pickup trucks back. Had my 1993 Toyota pickup when I was in college. That truck was a Swiss Army knife for me.
We have overinflated safety regulations to make up for bad drivers. These trucks will never be sold as the automakers oppose any simple reliable transportation. Not enough profit in this. They only offer $60k trucks with multiple screens and heavily optioned that most cannot afford.
The funny thing is those big pick up trucks aren't really that safe. I'm pretty sure those, and SUVs, were made and pushed, marketing wise, was to get around safety regulations.
I have a 2009 Smart Fortwo that I have made several trips of over 200 miles. Only has a 10 gallon gas tank but only use a half tank during the 200 mile trip. 80 mph toll roads multiple times during the trip. Greatest gripe is no cruise on this older model.
@@user-bw4jm1bv1i Partially. Car manfacturers here in the states get a tax break on anything this made on a truck chassis, which SUVs are also made on, so they have way higher profit margins on them. They do get to ignore other rules and regulations like gas effciency and ride height, but the major draw is the tax break.
You speak foolishly Kei 'trucks' are absurdly small, underpowered and uncomfortable, unsafe and unable to safely haul more than a 6' trailer.
The avg. American who barely uses the bed of their truck and haven't driven manual in 30 years would not be interested in a Kei 'truck'.
You complain about f150s for 60k, here in Australia a Ford Ranger or Toyota Hilux will easily set you back 65-85,000.
Have some perspective for goodness' sakes.
Take a look at the truck market right now. Dealers are hurting cause no one is buying. Manufacturers forcing dealers to stop pice gouging so the trucks will sell