I love the esoteric-ness of owning a Kei truck, but they are in no way a replacement for a regular pickup truck. You really need a separate car for dailying, unless you never drive anywhere other than around your farm.
How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
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Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
#42These HN threads about trucks are amazing. It’s like watching the same movie over and over again * Kei trucks are the coolest. Big gubment is making it so we can’t register them due to protectionism! * Chicken tax chicken tax chicken tax * Big trucks cause more crashes because reasons! * Trucks are just lifestyle vehicles and nobody actually needs or uses them Over and over and over again
> nobody actually needs or uses them These make me chuckle. Those people have never done home improvement projects or just projects that require picking up 8ft sheets of plywood or 20 bags of mulch.
I have a long wheelbase van with room racks, plus a trailer.
But pick up the overwhelm majority of items in the Celica, a two door hatch.
Anyways, suppliers deliver.
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
#43This goes to show just how superficial and backwards the American car industry is. You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup using a machine that is half the size of a Honda Civic, costs $10,000 new, gets 40 MPG, fits in any parking spot, is easy to load, and sells for around $10,000 new. But they look weak and girly . Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.
They can not replace new pickup truck. A bicycle doesn't replace a motorcycle just because it has two wheels and you can put groceries on it.
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
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In Oregon, Kei cars are specifically illegal, they cannot be titled or registered. Other states are following a similar path so definitely make sure you can title it before you buy it.
Is that for safety or market protection reasons?
The only reason given is that they are not manufactured for US highways. Which may be a roundabout way of saying they aren't capable of going highway speeds.
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
#45Definitely do your research if you live in another state, a growing number are refusing to register Kei cars at all. They know what they are, they aren’t baffled when you try, they just have rules against it now. No surprise, this is largely because many states’ DMVs source their regulations from the same org.
Hmmm… I wonder where that org gets their funding.
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
#46In the PNW these are absolutely everywhere and for good reason - they're exactly what most people need when they need a truck bed for hauling capacity. Plus, many are 4/AWD and have relatively high clearance so they're great adventure wagons for forest roads and getting out there. If a manufacturer made a truck similar (or slightly larger - not much room for people 6' and over in them) available for the market here,…
If by "they are absolutely everywhere" you mean "I've seen one of them in 25 years of living here", then I agree.
I saw one yesterday in skagit valley
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
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If by "they are absolutely everywhere" you mean "I've seen one of them in 25 years of living here", then I agree.
Forgetting that BC exists entirely. If you search "Kei" on Craigslist Vancouver, there's currently 37 postings, and they're constantly being imported here. I see them in Washington as well, although those may be Canadians just visiting.
A notable difference being in Canada you can import vehicles at 15 years old rather than 25. There is a decent flipping trade in Vancouver to import JDM vehicles while they are Canadian eligible but not US, hang on to them for a while, then sell them south once the 25 years are up.
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
#48These HN threads about trucks are amazing. It’s like watching the same movie over and over again * Kei trucks are the coolest. Big gubment is making it so we can’t register them due to protectionism! * Chicken tax chicken tax chicken tax * Big trucks cause more crashes because reasons! * Trucks are just lifestyle vehicles and nobody actually needs or uses them Over and over and over again
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> You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup... I would say that a non insignificant portion of pickup truck owners, don't even need a pick up truck to begin with.
I think that’s why big shared fleets will never really take off. People don’t seem to mind spending a lot more on their vehicle than what they really need to. People spend $50k because they want that truck, not because they need it.
Big shared fleets of cars seems like a great idea until you end up with the one with the backseat covered in day old vomit… in July
Re: How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
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They already have the form factor, it’s called a Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger. They are bigger than Kei trucks because they have actual safety features.
They are bigger because they need to house 200HP+ engines, which are, in most cases, unnecessary.
Cars and trucks 25 years ago had 200HP+ engines with much smaller bodies.