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Sure if you don't have kids or a family and want a miserable car with no comforts. This is just a striped down small tradesman vehicle.
I forgot, nobody uses vehicles for work-related purposes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I guess transportation perfection means really really good for this small niche of users?
Yeah, all of us that find F-150 sized trucks, with their minivan sized cabins and useless 4 foot beds, utterly useless and repugnant. There's still scadd of little trucks from the 80s and 90s on the road. The only vehicle I have ever missed is my old Mazda B2200. I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat.
Toyota Hilux is still offered where I live.
It got expensive but same quality.
Importing is more than you think, Donut media imported one of those cheap trucks and the import fees and various services needed to get it to you ended up being more than the truck. Also the build quality was terrible, the welds looked like a 5 year old put the truck together.
Again, you people have such a weird definition of perfection. "It aligns with my niche tastes. Perfection."
This thing is worthless to a huge part of the population.
Modern American pickup trucks are a sad, obese ghost of the utilitarian vehicle they once were. Gone are the beds you could haul a couple sheets of plywood in. You can't even get an adult sized 4 wheeler in one. They don't fit in a parking spot. Every new pickup puts its headlights straight in the back window of every regular passenger car. Their bumper is face hight to any child under 14. New trucks are a fucking blight. Fuel economy is non-existent. Diesel versions are even worse. Puking smoke and unburnt fuel in everyone's faces because the garbage that buys them immediately disable any emissions control measures. 90 percent of people don't need a pickup. They aren't pulling trailers or carrying anything bigger than a bag of dog food. The only thing they are hauling is their fragile fucking ego.
Same can be said of so many things! Why take a dump on a cheap truck? There's bigger fish to fry if that's really your concern
I just think transportation perfection is absurd click bait 🤷♂️.
It's a kei truck for outside Japan. Nothing new or revolutionary.
What a shitstain
Lololol 👌👍
I think transportation perfection means better bus, train and bike/pedestrian infrastructure with, ultimately, less vehicles on the road overall.
I'd agree fully.
This is not the target audience. It's for work purposes. Or someone who doesn't have a family I guess.
So exactly what I said in my comment. A vehicle for tradesmen.
So most young adults who are on a tight budget?
Young adults need a new pickup truck they can't travel with friends in? Boy times HAVE changed since I graduated in 2000.