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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by thebooktocome on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:13PM (#35646419)
Japan is famously mountainous. I can’t imagine they don’t road test them on “real hills”.
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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by pookah on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:53PM (#35648944)
Japan doesn't have rural American dirt roads.
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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by freetime2 on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:16AM (#35649764)
Can you elaborate on what American dirt roads means? Japan has tons of dirt/gravel roads. A typical operating environment for a kei truck might look like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.9510791,138.6746615,3a,75y,2...

They are pretty capable offroad vehicles.

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