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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Make the small one appealing to Americans who buy a truck for aesthetics.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Make the small one legal to build in American markets.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Question seconded. New big trucks tend to be ugly AF.

Work trucks for the working man, please. Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

The kei truck is mostly a farm truck.

For construction, Japan uses huge flatbed trucks.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Drive modernity to practicality. Embrace modern freight fleet, reject driving around in a truck to pick a bag of chips

[–] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Who buys a truck for aesthetics and not for usefulness? The tiny one might be ugly but the bigger problem is storage in the interior of the car. You don't even have a back seat in the small one. And also I doubt that the small one can haul large amounts of weight, like a trailer, where the big one can. Just because it is dangerous doesn't mean it doesn't have a purpose. Now, instead of having a car for getting around, an SUV for more people, something powerful for a trailer or heavy stuff, you have one for everything that costs the same price as one of those vehicles.

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Plenty of fuck boys buy trucks they never use for any amount of work. Pavement prices/princesses is the slur afaik

[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It sucks more than anything you mentioned

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

The more Im looking into it you are so much more right than me. Its about utility, not aesthetics.