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    Now make a $12,000 version with door locks and a basic AC and I’ll buy one this week. I miss 4th/5th gen Hilux

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    Would be cool if they made a sedan like this, a bare bones car sounds like something I would love

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    Really wish we could get stuff like this in the US but like the article said the lane keeping, emergency braking, stability control, etc makes it blow up in costs and Americans are too obsessed with 8ft tall massive pickups and SUVs the size of school busses.

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      American cinsumer here, I hate large trucks, especially qhen 99.8% of them I see on the road aren’t hauling a damn thing.

      I’d buy 2 hilux if I could.

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      Screw all that “assistance” gear. My car ('17 GTI) auto braked for some leaves the other day while I was travelling 120kph

      Luckily there wasn’t anyone right behind me

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        My wife’s Audi keeps doing the same. The system also isn’t smart enough to account for the rate of weight transition when ramming the brakes, so it immediately hits ABS and feels like it’s trying to stop on ice. It’s actually, genuinely fucking dangerous and enraging

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        Yea the brake assist fired on me the other day because I was coming to the base of a hill at decent speed and it thought it was a wall or something I guess. I turned off the lane assist within an hour of having the car since they don’t paint lines well in my state and it kept trying to steer me based off old half faded lines DOT didn’t remove when expanding roads or doing construction.

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      American here, if someone made a cheap, small truck with no frills I’d buy one this afternoon.

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      Basically all I have in life is making sure my S10 is serviceable as my hearse. I keep telling my next of kin “Don’t you rent no fuckin’ flatbed Cadillac when I’ve got a perfectly serviceable Chevrolet. It carried me everywhere while I was alive, it can carry me one more time.” Which for most of my adult life has meant keeping the thing in roadworthy condition, but now that I think about it probably also means I’m going to have to build an S10 compatible casket. I’m a slightly short and stocky guy, so you could build me a crate that’ll fit between the bulkhead and the tailgate, but I bet all the ones down at the local funeral home are built for a 6 foot tall man, and that ain’t gonna work.

      I like my little truck, is what I’m trying to say.

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        Step side or no? I had 2 s10s in the late 90s and early 00’s since a dear took one from me. Loved those little trucks tho, both were that like copper/bronze/gold color. One stick and one automatic

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          Smooth side, V6, 4 speed automatic, pewter metallic paint with chrome trim, charcoal interior. She’s got 240,000 miles on the clock, I figure about 60,000 more and I’ll have her properly broken in. She’s my 16th birthday present and the only thing I’ve ever touched that didn’t turn to pus.

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            Nice, both of mine were over 200k when I bought them almost 20 years ago. Amazing yours just passed 200k now. Hope it lasts for ya, great vehicle.

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      Those features cost almost nothing to implement at this point, and wouldn’t add more than $1000 to the end price, if that.

      Really, the main issues is that it likely is an absolute deathtrap in terms of impact safety, doubly so with our Truckasauruses everywhere. Not only that, but the reality is that, no matter how much people claim they want these barebones $10k cars, literally no one actually buys them.

      Americans don’t look at MSRP, they look at payments, and that makes ultra cheap cars extremely uncompetitive for both the consumer and the lender.

      They might only be willing to finance that $10k car for 3 years, and that’s a $300/mo payment, and they only make about $800 over the life of that loan. However, you move up to the $22.5k Corolla, they’ll gladly finance it for 6 years, and for only $50/mo more you get a much nicer car and they make 6x as much in interest at $3500.

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        Are those numbers actually correct? finance 10k for 4 years but 2.25x as much for 6? Final payments are 14’400 and 25’200 as per your numbers. So 4’400 vs. 2’700 profit plus much higher CAPEX for the lower profit?

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    I wonder what the cost is on the upgraded ones or if they’ll even be available, I assume one would also want the bigger engine

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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.

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      You might not have noticed it, but it is a truck, not a car. That people sometimes confuse those things seems to be an American problem.

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          A truck is supposed to be a work vehicle. It’s just the Americans that have decided its the best vehicle for every use case. These are built from the ground up as a work vehicle

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          I would buy this in a heart beat. Bare bones truck, perfect for a home owner that needs to haul stuff around for projects on the weekend.

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      I forgot, nobody uses vehicles for work-related purposes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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          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.

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            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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                I remember saying that exact same thing about SUVs in the 80s. Nothing changes. Not with the American car industry anyway. Printing money hand-over-fist for most of the 20th century to be so miserably managed as to go bankrupt and “have to” be bailed out by taxpayers. Largely responsible for destruction of the planet, the poor public transport options, preventing EVs for decades, and offering nothing new but bigger more expensive pollution.

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              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

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                I just think transportation perfection is absurd click bait 🤷‍♂️.

                It’s a kei truck for outside Japan. Nothing new or revolutionary.

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          In America the segment for small pickups is larger than you think and cars are overpriced right now which makes a brand new car you can import for less than 15k mind-boggling. Additionally, the barebones nature of the car is appealing for its low-tech nature. Add that it’s a Toyota, known for reliability.

          Maybe you don’t see it as a desirable car because it isn’t to your tastes, but the world doesn’t revolve around you.

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            Cars are very cheap these days. It’s silly that people keep saying this. You can find brand new cars with Android Auto and are perfectly safe for 16k. If you want nicer just about every economy brand will sell you a small sedan for 24k that will out perform anything under 40k from 10 years ago.

            As for a 2 seater pickup with low tow capacity, I really doubt the demand is as high as you think here in the states.

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          I think transportation perfection means better bus, train and bike/pedestrian infrastructure with, ultimately, less vehicles on the road overall.

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      This is not the target audience. It’s for work purposes. Or someone who doesn’t have a family I guess.

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        Young adults need a new pickup truck they can’t travel with friends in? Boy times HAVE changed since I graduated in 2000.