AKA asshole safe-space
I know some people who actually use their pickup truck and wish they could get something smaller. It doesn’t exist anymore in the US.
It’s not even the often remarked “chicken tax”. That only prevents small trucks from foreign factories being imported in without a big extra cost attached. Factories in Canada and Mexico, via NAFTA, have been long exempt. US automakers have been free to make whatever small truck they want.
I am eyeing the Telo. I hope that works out.
And they you have the real “I’m here to work” truck. Either that or they have a van. Sometimes you see a pickup truck here, but they’re always used by the bosses and inspection.
Dang she hawt
A real man drives a Suzuki Carry!
edit: image searched “small japanese pickup” on DDG initially… got a whole other set of results 🤣
wdym 🤔
Naturally, I won’t post the relevant screen as they are not blurred out, but you can possibly guess what came up for me…
I have no idea why I got such radically different results. I am in the UK if that changes anything.
If I set my region to the UK (Verenigd Koninkrijk), I get the same results as you
Maybe DDG knows i’m a car enthousiast and you’re… uhhh
And as a bonus getting hit with one will send you to a fantasy world
Dickgirl with a CDL here: I love pickup trucks, at least anything bigger than a half-ton. You can get a lot of work done, pull a lot of shit and other things with a properly outfitted truck. I’m tired of people pretending like Japanese light trucks have any sort of similar capabilities, capacities, or safeties that half-tons have.
First of all, bed space doesn’t mean jack if you don’t have the suspension to hold it or the brakes to stop it in motion. Then, the engine: half-tons can have 6.7L Diesel engines while Japanese light trucks only have 0.66L engines by Japanese law. Good luck pulling anything with that.
Next, people LOVE to pretend like there aren’t any uses for half-tons meanwhile I used them every day in my road maintenance job. Sometimes medium-duty trucks are just too fucking big for what you want to use them for. Supply runs and picking up trash is easy in a pickup, but annoying as fuck in a dump truck.
If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit, then sure. But I love me some half-tons and I’m tired of people shitting on them
I live in Wyoming and I want to get a 4x4 half ton with a full bed so in the winter I can slap a hydraulic flat bed on it for two snowmobiles and a snow plow on the front. In the summer it would tow my ruggedized camper and maybe dirt bikes in the bed.
They are super useful but “luxury” and/or urban pick-ups have given them a bad reputation.
the “pushed in muzzle” is because of pedestrian safety requirements ironically
Really? Everything I’ve heard about pedestrian safety suggests that its better to go onto the hood rather than be pushed down and go under the wheels.
It seems like this design would do exactly that, in addition to creating a blind spot directly in front of the vehicle. Though I suppose these trucks are so tall you’re likely to go under anyway.
vehicles are required to have flatish noses because of laws designed for sedans to prevent cars from being wedge shaped and cutting pedestrians legs off, which applies to all sizes of car
the “hit em in the fuckin head so they don’t suffer” requirement?
Can’t report hitting a pedestrian if you never saw or felt the pedestrian you hit
My dad drove an 86 Nissan 720 when I was a kid that looked exactly like the second small truck and I would kill for a modern version. I usually stick stuff in the back of my RAV4 and that mostly works, but there are times I need an open bed and have to rent a pickup. Give the people what they want! Baby trucks!
People want crossovers, unfortunately.
If someone doesn’t agree, then I propose we also call these trucks
Never seen anyone own a van just to own a van though. Either a camper and not the daily driver, for work, 6+ kids, or converted for wheelchairs.
Gender affirming care
The way I see it, if your personal vehicle that you own or rent is tall enough that you need some sort of step type thing just to be able to get in or need to lift your legs more than a couple feet in the air to get in, you are a small child masquerading as an adult. Same thing applies if a 5 year old can stand directly in front of your vehicle and you cannot see them.
Only exceptions are disabled people (you should probably get a lower to the ground vehicle if you’re disabled in a way that makes it hard to climb into a vehicle), and people who are genuinely short (like dwarfism type stuff, in which I question why you have such a tall vehicle in the first place).
Don’t give people any ideas, I’m sure some would commute in a semi if they thought it made them more manly.
REAL men drive a bus
In an urban environment, yes.
The super tall oversized trend is actually terrible for nost uses in rural areas too. It is far harder to see what is around you and to squeeze through tight places compared to an old s10 or ranger.
It’s like everyone went in on making the size commonly used for pulling horse trailers but without the fifth wheel. Hard to blame people for not buying what isn’t being manufactured anymore.
Yep. I own a pickup that I actually use and let me tell you I hate how tall that bastard is. I’ve mentioned before that I miss my old Datsun. My buddy had a Courier. We could load shit in the bed of both without worrying about it being a two person job because it was actually low enough to toss shit in the bed without having someone to hand it up to.
Even smaller models like the S10 and Ranger are far too tall now. Where’s my stripped down, low without being a lowrider, useful truck? Put that sumbitch on the market and I’d pick it up.
Interrupting a circle jerk is poor manners.
Yeah, my apologies. I was just apoplectic with rage that they had the audacity to include a Hilux. One of the most important and best vehicles ever built - probably.
