An enhanced lite ace I should say
wish we didn’t have the fuckin Chicken Tax in america so we would have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting cool stuff like this
Import it without the Bed and install it in the US. That’s what Toyota did with the original Stout/Hilux to sell them in North America. I doubt this is meeting the current FMVSS though.
The Chicken Tax gets blamed for way more damage than it actually did. Any foreign made Pickup that had an actual chance of being marketed in the US (Ie Transit Connect, Toyota Stout/Hilux, Datsun 720, Subaru Brat, Etc) was imported with minor changes to circumvent the tax.
yeah and Ford brought Transit Connects over with extra seats they threw away when they got here, I would rather just get rid of the stupid tarriff than cause more stupid bullshit to get around it
Damnit just let these sell in the US. All I want is a brand-new bare bones truck I can beat on and carry shit with. I don’t need touchscreens, navigation systems, or a ridiculously smart computer.
I just want a sturdy little truck with a heater, a/c, and a manual transmission. And that Toyota reliability.
I hear you, but this is like 200 inches long. It’s no Ram, but it’s not exactly dainty.
I’m not talking tiny. I just don’t want a massive bloated thing that I can’t buy in a regular cab.
Fair point.
Meanwhile the western world is only offered luxury pickups.
Half of Ford F-Series sales are XL work trucks for Fleets. They are still out there, just your average Joe financing a brand new truck probably wants some extra features.
I did drive a tradesman spec Ram work truck for a little over a year and actually came to like the Vinyl seats and rubber floors of it. I could get that thing filthy dirty and clean it in no more than 30 minutes.
You can spec rubber floors in super duties all the way up to the platinum trim, and many do when they find out about it. They’re actually really nice, molded and insulated and everything, not like the tacked down vinyl floors of the past.
It’s fun to see the reaction to rubber floors in an otherwise fully loaded lariat ultimate. Saved me 50 bucks on the option sheet too.