If you don't know what a Kei Car is, it's a Japanese class of vehicles that are super tiny and limited to 63hp. They are typically cute and/or crazy and make affordable enthusiast cars.
Recently they've been very popular as cheap light farm trucks.
To import a car into the US it needs to be 25 years old because of stupid laws. Orange site cannot believe we would do something so dangerous as allow cars with outdated safety standards on the road - after all, you might hurt yourself!
I feel like this sort of thing is a fantastic illustration of the irresponsible level which most drivers (in the US at least; can't speak to other countries) feel that they are just so so good at driving that they believe all these safety features are fine to go without.
Sure, this is presumably not your sole vehicle or daily driver. And sure, you're not going to be taking one of these on a 65mph highway. But a 30mph head-on collision with another vehicle will almost certainly kill you in one of these trucks. And I know if I was the driver of the other vehicle, and survived, even if I wasn't the one at fault, I'd probably need years of expensive therapy to get past it all.
If this is too for you, he's mad because he's afraid he'll need therapy after killing you because of your car choice.
This moron wants you to give up your fun car because he's afraid he'll need therapy. I just wanted to repeat that.
If safety was a primary concern for U.S. regulators, large consumer SUVs and trucks would not exist in their current form. As of ~2019 (the last such study I know of) trucks killed occupants of other vehicles at 2.5x the rate of cars and "SUVs" (an increasingly useless category as it includes everything from small unibody crossovers to enormous body-on-frame Canyonero-style monstrosities). I am not aware of any comparable headline figure for how pedestrians fare against them but I would put money on their pedestrian safety performance also being atrocious.
What is it will silicon valley and car-hate?
I don't understand the anger and disdain from people about others potentially hurting themselves. The only thing I can think of is they are jealous of someone who doesn't have these sort of intrusive thoughts about safety all the time and how they get to do something cool like the OP every now and then.
Fortunately someone has a sane take.
A kei truck is still safer than taking a bicycle or motorcycle on public roads. Do you propose banning those?
Another refutation, what does the site think about this?
Nah, this is some terrible whataboutism. Stick to the topic.
He said the magic word that invalidates all arguments!
Anyway I think much of the anti-kei sentiment is lobbyists trying to protect the truck market from affordable competition.
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Just blame CAFE and move on. THERE I've solved Kcar threads!
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This but like unironically
The real solution is to kill fats and put a $7500 surcharge on any car over 5000 lbs
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Anything bigger than my Miata should be illegal. Too fat to fit in a Miata? Tough shit, walk. You need the exercise anyway.
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I'm too tall to fit in one and I tried to make it work.
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Manlets? we are so back.![:chudsmug: :chudsmug:](/e/chudsmug.webp)
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Being tall is basically just like being fat, but vertically.
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Electric cars on suicide watch.
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most normal sized electric cars come in at 4000 lbs, 5000 lbs is enough to include the hybrid Pacifica and some of the lower trim Taycans, even the F-150 lol
which is why you ratchet the max surchargeless rate down 100 lbs every year
within the decade every car on the road will be a Passat 4motion as Ferdinand Porshe intended
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Frick you for implying I'm being ironic. Stupid CUTE TWINK
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shut your whore mouth BIPOC
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Funny enough, between my two cars... the Flex is closer to 5000lbs than the Bronco.
2016 Flex Ecoboost AWD: 4,828lbs
2022 Bronco 2-door, 2.7, Sasquatch: 4,600lbs
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