their new business model is to get everyone into their rolling data collectors so they can sell every conversation and bit of your cell phones data (calls/texts) to data brokers . along with having you get their credit card . they’re not auto manufacturers anymore as they’re just banks and tech companies now .. good times 🫠🤓🎉
@@moriyamakyon1067true but having more affordable vehicles mean more people having access to them. Also k truck can do a lot of work, maybe not as much as you 80k one but I see them up heving the work truck industry if there were legle. Everyone would have one
I drove a Jeep in the army. Don't worry about being impaled on the steering wheel in a collision. You'll be thrown so far from the Jeep it will be amazing!😂
I've often said, any similarity between "right and wrong" and "legal and illegal" is purely coincidental. I find it interesting that we've been so indoctrinated to think that Religion/superstition is the authority on Right and Wrong enough to bring Religion into this discussion. IMHO, they just wrote down already established tribal knowledge.
When people base their entire moral compass around laws and how they'll follow them like the ten commandments, kindly remind them that alcohol was illegal, and slavery was legal
But it's still safety, sort of. Obviously anyone can dee that the Honda is better in any way (except looks) but if it was never tested in the US for road safety and is not over 25 years old you can't legally drive it. The same reason why the Skyline R34 is mostly still banned (altough some early models can already be brought in due to their age). If it is over 25 years old you can legally import it and drive it. The jeep was built in the US and is a milotary vehicle, makes sense why it's so unsafe. But since it was built in the us and is also very old you can legally drive that without any safety features. Small trucks are also liable for mich stricter emissions rules which is why so many manufacturers build big trucks today.
@@Z38_US yes, modern trucks are stupid huge because it was cheaper for thr manufacturers to increase the physical size of the truck rather than meet the emission regulations. A classic example of unintended consequences.
@@terryhiggins5077 Yeah that's because the EPA is stupid. This is exactly why cars in the US in general are so gigantic nowadays ,it's simply to exploit the emissions loophole since vehicles of specific sizes and above get laxer regulations and as a consequence of that cars nowadays in the US are gigantic. I don't live in the US (sadly lol) but in Europe and someone in my town drives, what would be considered a small Truck in the US (it's a standart RAM Pickup). Over here this truck is absolutely gigantic. Seeing actual US cars in Europe, especially imports never meant to be sold here, really shows you just how comically large the cars over there actually are and for some reason I love every bit of it lmao
Newsflash. Most of the postal trucks you see on the road have NO airbags, antilock brakes or catalytic converters! Being government vehicles, they're exempt!
Rules for thee, and not for... well let's just say it's important to convince you we did something for the environment. The Sebators need cheap heath insurance and ither perks from a government subsidized business they privately own.
This doesn't really feel out of place. I know tons of people driving vehicles that wouldn't pass a modern inspection that are acceptable because they met the standards of their time when they rolled off the assembly line. It's often easier to just wait for the vehicles to age out than to try and force people to get rid of them early when rolling out new rules like that. Now on the other hand if those postal vehicles were purchased after such rules were put in place, that would be much more interesting, but it sounds like the design just predated stricter standards.
@@staycurious3954 nah the ones that really have to cry are the ones who live on boings new emergency "runway". its a good thing that American houses are so soft
Ah you don't know do you? How can voting in a crooked system ever do anything ? They designed it this way ..they even give you a choice of candidates that will serve the agenda , you can't vote your way into this mess , that's like trying to dig your way out of a hole by digging deeper , when has a politician ever done anything honest ? Or for the people ? , crickets chirp
That’s why I’ll never face a moral quandary when it comes to sidestepping the law as I see fit. Anyone who follows the law by the book is just getting used like a clown.
The person is correct lobbying anyone in Washington or anyone or anywhere else is a legal form of corruption if you don’t believe it just check the laws in this country legal form of corruption
@RalphSampson... Yeah, but the industry is trying to get those things off the roads so that they can get their modern crapboxes in full use. Easier to make money on a car that breaks more than a car that doesn't.
That and excessive emissions standards forcing engines to be be WAYYY too over engineered and expensive to develop and manufacture, it’s also the reason why despite being newer, a lot of new cars aren’t as reliable.
No this is a new problem. People have already imported thousands. So man that government officials think they are the reason people aren’t buying new vehicles here in America where they get kick backs from either local dealers or manufacturers. And they are blaming it all on safety so that way if you do register and insure one the insurance will be absolutely ridiculous.
@@fr_schmidlin it has nothing to do with the emissions, the 660cc engines will pass emissions with flying colors. It has to do with safety. We let the feds innact a bunch of RULES (not laws, no elected representative was involved, just a bunch of unelected bureaucrats) that say any vehicle made has to have airbags and needs to meet front impact standards. In a front impact, kei trucks are pretty sketchy. I've seen videos of the resting, the entire cab flops forward and the driver dies.
This is actually a case of regulating everyone fairly. The small truck did not meet safety standards when it was produced, so, regardless of where it was made, it isn't allowed on US roads. The jeep DID meet the virtually non-existent safety standards when it was produced, so it is grandfathered in.
not this time. The Jeep was built in the 1940s. It is required to meet the federal requirements for automobiles AT THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE. Its called being grandfathered. That is why that mini truck isn't allowed to be registered through the DMV
@@exploregeology4650 Why TF you care? Those who own vintage automobiles know a hell alot more about the subject then 'bystanders' like you. Im a heck alot more concerned about other drivers on their phones relying on autopilot then I am any of the so called 'death traps' owners are very cautious with when driving. Cry a bridge and get over it.
not this time. The Jeep was built in the 1940s. It is required to meet the federal requirements for automobiles AT THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE. Its called being grandfathered. That is why that mini truck isn't allowed to be registered through the DMV
@@308RoadReadythere is no legal difference between the two. Both are over 25 years old and qualify as antiques and thus meet the same safety standards (that being essentially none if registered as one) it's not about the legal status of these trucks, its about cost. You can get one of these for $5k, thats about 45k less than the ford ranger or toyota tacoma you could have bought instead. That means the state collects significantly less sales tax and the county collects significantly less property tax. It's all about money, if safety was an issue then things like the cybertruck would never have been allowed to be sold.
@@red_skies80 To difficult to understand?? You can register and drive Kei trucks in Colorado... the video is bs. More fearmongering against what?? Regulations?? You do realize regulations keep our water clean?? No Regulations = Corporations can dump hazardous material into our water in turn, our food. Tell everyone you lack critical thinking skills without telling everyone much?
No what they'll do is make restrictions on new engine so tight that e-cars can outshine them. They'll also keep the price of fuel high so that you're essentially paying a luxury tax to use gasoline/diesel vehicles. They don't have to outlaw them just force restrictions so high it's impossible to make them look appealing.
@@damnits2200 I'd say the vast majority of people don't need to regularly haul a half-ton of stuff or tow 7 tons. This isn't a very strong argument. Even then these kei trucks are usually capable of carrying about 770lbs, or towing up to a ton depending on the model. Which is more than enough for most applications.
No, it does not burn less fuel than a hybrid. Good hybrids get upwards of 50-60 mpg, the little kei trucks get like 40 max. Some hybrids are considerably less efficient, but the good fuel efficiency ones are what I'm talking about.
@@bigboytoyz541 now we got "rangers" like that kid from spy X family who was buffed as fuck, had a deep voice yet we not even half way to puberty. technically not a full size truck, but fuck me if it dont look like a full size from a long time ago thats why ill never get rid of my nissan D21 hardbody pickup, 22 MPG good enough for me.
@@riograndelocos9639I wouldn’t even call the Maverick a truck, it’s a uni-body and I think it’s AWD as opposed to 4X4. Not that it has to be 4X4 to be a truck but it it either needs to be 2WD or 4X4, AWD is for cars and crossovers.
Yeah... you can hide from the mob snd go into witness protection. But if you cross the industrial military complex, you are knocking on the deaths door.
Well Gaddafi was doing well for his country up until the rich white capitalist cartel decided to fuck him and his country over. All because he refused to allow them to run anything in his country.
Sensible countries are in fact interested in the populace's wellbeing, as made obvious by the fact that American healthcare charges like all hell while many other western nations have actually affordable healthcare that won't cost an arm and a leg. Probably because, oh I don't know, we in other countries pay a bit more tax? Legit, it's hilarious how USA is the richest nation in the world yet people are struggling in multiple ways. Corrupt state. I earn less than Americans (on paper) but I'm not even financially struggling, not at all. I earn on average about $1400 a month (after tax of like 20%), pay roughly $300 in "rent" (I live with my parents because the housing market is kinda wack) and have other expenses of about $250 - 300 every month. That leaves me with about $700 - 800 every month I can do whatever I wish with, and most I save, either in normal savings account or my investment savings account. I even went on vacation last year, a two weeks vacation to Asia. And the best part? I don't even work full-time, I work roughly 24 hours a week, yet still make enough to support myself with a good chunk to spare.
@@ZhadTheRad Simply put, the oppression under capitalism is just more extreme here in the US. As time progresses, I bet ya you'll experience something similar.
@@qwertykeyboard5901I doubt it. The US is crony capitalist and has a fundamental approach to capitalism, my country is more pragmatic. My country actually cares about it's citizens, and that results in a bunch of benefits (like paid parental leave, right to healthcare and education) and safety nets (like financial aid from the social insurance agency when you're unemployed, law that protects you from termination without valid reason(Employment Protection Act)). Compare that to the US where healthcare and education costs a lot, parents work their butts off because they're not guaranteed paid time off by law (instead that being something the employer gives I suppose), employers can fire you over seemingly anything (even if you've been doing your job well. In my country), etc.
Next let’s talk about how the 25 year rule has nothing to do with safety or emissions compliance and everything to do with politicians selling your right to freedom of choice to Mercedes Benz.
Called protectionism, Japan is famous for it, until the US can have full access to their markets, let's protect ours. Unless you'll end up like the UK w/o an auto industry
Not even ironic just straight up hypocrisy and stupidity that the states have one of the least free or open markets in the entire world. Monopolies hates any competition and anyone giving what the companies see as their money to some other company
Move. Or quit complaining about it and do something about it. If you can find a lot of people who agree with you, then you can make the change. But if all you are going to do is complain about it, you might as well move.
@@WilsonZoneOK Yeah like moving to another country isn't an arm and a leg either. Why are you so desperate to keep this country impossible to live in? "Don't like 100k homes, 80k cars, 10k medical bills??? Move! In this country we pay to be poor! 😤"
There weren't any lawmakers involved, the Kei trucks were banned by a RULE not a law. Rules are made by unelected bureaucrats. But in this particular case they were right. I'm a volunteer firefighter, and I've responded to accidents involving local farmers taking Kei trucks on the road. They are a death trap. Or two different occasions, I've seen the cab latches fail in a front impact, the cab flips forward, and the driver is mangled. That kei truck is a far bigger death trap than the Willys Jeep
Because it'll ruin the American truck market. Pure and simple. I want one of those little trucks though. It's pretty much perfect for my life, but it's illegal to get one here in the grand ol US of A.
It wouldn't ruin the American truck market lmao. Yeah because you see so many people driving around in pickups that aren't full sized. Literally the opposite is true. This vehicle would be great for certain businesses though, I know the military uses them. But if you're thinking people are going to trade on their full size pick ups for this..
No airbags or crash structure. Cab over trucks have been illegal in the U.S.A. for decades because they are death traps in an accident. You get crushed by whatever you hit.
@@M0vingSaturn523MLMguitarguy has a lot to learn about what government regulation is really about. The government will often cite safety concerns to create laws that benefit the people in power. And too many people just go with it.
I mean the single ply steel body is absolutely not an issue... Since.. you know .. the CJ2A Willys passed 1930s safety regulations (werent really a thing back then) that Honda doesnt pass, neither did several jdm vehicles like the sprinter trueno due to the single ply steel body being roughly as rigid as soggy tissue paper and didnt pass 1980s safety regulations in the United States. Dude has no idea what he is talking about😂
I'm wondering if you could use the laws' absurdity against itself. If there was a donor car you could keep just enough of the frame to continue to register it as the street-legal donor car, but have the small-truck body. I knew a guy who once did something similar to skirt emissions regulations in the late 1990's. He was doing a complete overhaul of a 1980's Oldsmobile 442, including a body-off frame. While the body was off he purchased the frame from an El Camino (technically a pick-up in that state), but it's literally the same frame as the 442. When completed it is now registered as an El Camino, and didn't have to meet emissions standards, as trucks were exempt. Perhaps put the Kei truck body on something like an old Geo Tracker or Suzuki Samuri frame?
Let’s do away with all regulations do the US turns into a cesspool of pollution from coast to coast & planes falling from the skies because there are no standards.
Lawmakers own the entire country and all the people and companies and all the money. They can even create infinite money out of thin air. They can legally do absolutely everything they want. It's the law
In some states, driving K-trucks on the road are allowed: Washington State, Texas, Florida, NC, and a few others. How they became legal in those states? The voice from the public.
Some DO care. Some want proposed things like publicly funded elections to take away the advantage of rich people winning elections all the time. But people hate her. Her name is Elizabeth Warren. Another guy like Bernie Sanders wants to go even further but people hate him too. The media smears them and people are INCREDIBLY gullible and fall for it.
Ended 1945, the fall to centralize banks, end of freedom. Germany, inventors of all things. The Kei Car sucks it’s not for outside Japanese cities, 650 cc motorcycle engine is not for highway you will be hurt. Cause accident. Willie’s has more modern keeps under Mitsubishi don’t recall all foreign makers, not mahindra India. I’ve drivers Suzuki vehicles, fine. The jeep is a farm vehicle not on road as daily driver ya knucklehead it’s got a PTO POWER TAKE OFF FOR DUMP LIFTING HAY. What ever with to purpose off . Combine tractors all rest get to fields on roads but not going to work or beach on one! Want something silly get a sand rail or other look at me solutions. 2.0 liter okay! Very few keeps going to reinactmw at where German wind and all free. Both dumb choices. A logical fallacy but ones safe so Aldo should be more legaler? Child thinks in such terms.
Laws that stop small trucks isn’t even corruption. It’s dumb people. Emission laws pushed for better emission but bigger cars/trucks couldn’t pass so bigger vehicles got more leniency. Problem is it was a lot easier to make a bigger car pass then a smaller one then…. So they pretty much stopped making all small cars.
More like the entire world. It's far behind what people can even imagine. You think the ultra advanced tech can't produce a car that can get vastly better gas mileage? 200 miles a gallon was possible decades ago. And that's a drop in the bucket.
@@Mario-ob8es just because we can make something doesn’t always make it practical. An example would be they made a fuel based fuel cell and getting over 50% efficiency. (Over double the avg engine) Problem? They were heating the fuel cell to 1100c which uses a metal like tungsten carbide so it doesn’t melt and explode on site. Problem here is to cut a metal you need a harder metal but your not getting a harder metal then tungsten carbide and due to its heat properties heating it up before cutting it isn’t even useful either. So your only real options are a ECM or EDM. (Basically cutting it chemically or electrically) Problem here? Both those methods are expensive as hell. There is a reason we hardly use them. We can’t get overly excited because they made something work. The car that got “high gas mileage” often has a least a few things going on that would make it worthless. But the testing they can get out of it is rather interesting. Showing us what can be done. (However may require extreme manufacturing improvements or even laws and public perception)
@@treymiller5736 The technology was locked away from the public for only 1 reason. It would lose the oil barrens an enormous amount of money. It's a drop in the bucket. There is literally 1000s of inventions that are locked away because it would lose powerful people money and control. This is why a lot of tech has been at a standstill for a century in an age of advanced tech. The carburator that got 200 miles a gallon was tested by various experts and was proven effective, this was a lifetime ago. The inventor conveniently died and the tech was slapped with the "secret patent" like 1000s of other such inventions. Decades and decades ago. The current technology being suppressed is obviously even more efficient and advanced and by no means limited to only automotive. People have no idea.
Corruption is always rampant in the U.S as long as an American Company is involved; the U.S govt is also run by said companies. The imports are obvious competition and the corpos hate that.
Did you notice that the steering wheel is on the wrong side? Probably more a committee of safety nuts than corporation boogeyman. The lack of safety features on the Jeep get a pass as a historical vehicle when such safety devices weren't required.
IIRC, you could do it into the mid to late 80s except out of a JC Whitney catalog. Omix ADA got its start that way when the original owner, Al, would order entire Jeeps in crates just to part them out and that evolved into possibly the biggest source of Jeep body panels, restoration, and aftermarket parts in the world. I worked there until Truck Hero bought it from him
75% of americans make less than 40 grand a year. The average cost of a new car went from 40k ish before covid to 52k currently. We are living in a dystopia.
That’s insane to realize! I make about $25k a year at my warehouse job making a bit above minimum wage. It would take 100% of my wages for an entire year to afford a base model new Toyota Corolla! That’s insane that it costs that much!
Price of vehicles is why I drive a 2005 xtype,cost me $2000, easy to work on,gets bout 28 mpg,get the gauking looks from everyone, gold,black tint windows, original chrome rims,full options and power sunroof.blast to drive.
You forgot to mention the BIGGEST SAFETY ISSUE and REAL REASON… it’s a RIGHT HAND DRIVE … in RIGHTside drive Country …. You Don’t have a Safe line of sight for lane changes and Especially highway passing … EXTREMELY DANGEROUS..!! that’s why !
It is allowed because it's 80 years old. And because it's a military vehicle. Grandfathered... lawmakers do it so they dont immediately turn large sections of the population into criminals. We have exceptions like this in lots of stuff.
They could always make it illegal to register it under a new owner, which would kill the used market for them and disincentivize people from fixing them up trying to flip them, all without directly penalizing the current owner. Even for the current owner, I think it would be totally reasonable to set a 5 year or 10 year phase out period so it'd become street-illegal after some time but the owner would still have enough time to buy a new vehicle.
@flamingspinach 100% an option. I haven't seen it been used much lately. I believe they are switching to an incentive faze out model (as seen with the push for electric cars), probably to avoid public outcry. And seen in many industries, when the market share decreases, they are unable to maintain the infrastructure used to support it. ie. Electric cars fazing out gas stations. And so the lack of infrastructure makes it less desirable to own gas vehicles. A soft action is often what is needed to take on these emensce tasks. Ps. Thank you for the comment.
@@silaskuemmerle2505 25. And yes the "foreign" excuse is what detroit used to kill imports to actually drive competition instead of their little cartel.
@@flamingspinach which I hope they don’t do to that full effect. As someone who has automotive knowledge and experience and is an auto enthusiast, that would be disheartening to learn that I can’t make extra money on the side by utilizing my skills, or even get a chance to own a foreign car like that. But that’s just my opinion. I can totally understand what you said as well.
Was a cop for 38 years, 15 as a motorcycle cop. If I saw that white truck going down the street, I wouldn’t give it a second look, unless to think, “that’s a cool looking truck.” I find it hard to believe that it’s illegal to drive that white truck anywhere in America because it’s an import. Hell, half the cars on the road are imports. My truck was manufactured in Mexico. So it too is an import.
Oregon is another state that doesn't allow the import mini trucks on public roads and it's infuriating! If they won't allow it then at least one of the car manufacturers could make an American version! Perfect commuter vehicle for construction workers! Perfect off roaders with some easy mods! And how hypocritical of the government to be pushing for a green fossil free future but right now they won't allow these little trucks on the road despite them using FAR less materials to build than American trucks and FAR better fuel milage than American trucks. Just goes to show the "green" energy push has NOTHING to do with the planet and EVERYTHING to do with making money!
At the end of the day the actual reason is because these trucks are nowhere near capable of adhering to US vehicle safety requirements. Even in low speed accidents kei trucks are rolling coffins. Would you be ok puttering around town making grocery runs or whatever? Yeah, probably. Taking one onto the freeway is suicidal ideation.
@@thomasfurniss2026 grandfather clause* second, who do you think makes those laws? Politicians, and who benefits most from a imported vehicle ban? Domestic auto manufacturers do the math
Those EVs are a direct result of government intervention. But yeah I agree they’d rather sell us these monstrosities rather than actual practical, small, and affordable vehicles
Almost NOBODY mentions the fact that we don't have the electrical grid to support all the vehicles that are coming along! Make sure to carry a generator in your Tesla Trunk!
It's not about the vehicle it's about where it comes from. If it is a foreign car it has to pass all the same tests US made cars have to which includes emissions and also crash testing. These K-trucks have never been put through these tests because they were never sold in the US and as such aslong as they are younger than 25 they are illegal, just like any other foreign car that never got tested properly. It's not a conspiracy it's just general laws applying to any vehicle veing exploited here for views nothing else.
@@Z38_UStell me how a vehicle with no seatbelts or airbags is permitted to drive on roads or motorcycles for that instance but Japanese cars aren’t? It’s not a conspiracy, just automakers loosing out on cheaper vehicles that do the same job as a $80k truck
@@LadiesMan-bo2cc because the vehicle with no seatbelts and no airbags is over 25 years old and thus legally a classic car and therefore doesn't have to conform to any modern regulations because it is too old for that. The other is probably not 25 years old yet and thus is still illegal. Once it turns 25 you can also drive the other car legally (if you spend the money importing one which will likely be expensive ontop of finding it in the first place).
@@hosslane320 Toyota used to make Hilux for the American market, but they just called it a "Pickup" which is weird as that's the generic term for a truck. It'd be like if they called the Camry a "Toyota Car". The problem is that the pickup/hilux we got here was only the 22r or 22re petrol engine. It's a fine engine, well made and very durable, but severely lacking in power for even a small truck. We never got the diesel version. In fact, there are, to my knowledge no diesel Toyota vehicles in the United States. I'm not sure why.
Two reasons for that: 1) US mfrs don't want competition 2) If you're driving the Jeep, you're a hobbyist. If you're driving a vehicle that's been manufactured recently, you're not. Are you advocating that older cars be taken off the road? Because that could happen too!
Maine has a legislation that needs to be voted on. 4 years ago I purchased AK truck legally got it registered it was legally inspected at the time. But in the past couple of years I have been unable to get it registered due to a new law. I find it absolutely bullshit.
@balisongman07 Mitsubishi is a Japanese company. So is Honda. Are they going to make all foreign cars illegal? Of course not. Too many wealthy people in this country drive Maserati, Porsche, Mercedes, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, etc. No way are they going make unregisterable _those_ cars. Just cars us small folk can afford. How insipid.
You can argue the jeep met regulations at the time. The kei car/van, probably not. Still bs though because of the 25 year law should be good for all vehicles older than 25 years.
By law, you can own and operate an imported vehicles as long as its 25 years old or older. So the Kei trucks should be legal. Yes they are slower and they can't haul as much as a full size truck. But they would be great for light loads. Besides new vehicles are too expensive for the average person anymore. That is why I recently bought a 98 tacoma while I could afford it. A new one will set you back around 30k.
@@williammorrow5479 I don't believe you or there would be literally millions of foreign cars flooding the USA. Every GTR would be heading to the US the moment it hit 25 years old. Perhaps the Japanese cannot afford to keep cars alive 25 years since their government applies ever increasing license fees as a car ages.
This thing has the capability to disrupt the market of heavy pickup trucks with low fuel efficiency. Most people don't even need that much powerful pickup trucks.
@@jdguy23 They aren't even good for that. They're inefficient and some of them are way too high and bad weight distribution. Most of the huge trucks I see are spotless, lifted, and in the suburbs covered in stickers.
All lobbying so car companies can sell giant f*cking suv's and trucks to soccer moms and men who need to compensate for their small di*ks. We cant have anything small and practical in this stupid country because of the EPA and stupid beaurocracy.
Well free-er. I'd still rather live with these rules than have to live in somewhere like China. There was a guy who got his modified Lexus IS confiscated by the police because he didn't know the right people in power.
Kalifornia controls emmissions standards for all cars made in the US and there are plenty of missed good vehicles not making it to our shores because of emission standards - its all a racketeering operation, our once great Republic is dead.
Jeep meets 1948 emission standards. Honda does not meet 1996 emission standards. You provide a loophole, manufacturers stop meeting emission standards. That being said, those mini-trucks and side by sides can actually be tagged in my free state of WV. Enjoy your blue state.
@@glasswulf6346 Mini truck didn't meet 1996 safety/emissions for the year it was built. 1944 Jeep is Grandfathered in. Here in WV you can tag Mini Trucks and SXS's. Just not supposed to take them on interstate highways. Enjoy my Freedom. Couldn't stand to live in a blue state.
@@n2omike You have no idea what you're talking about. The reason they're allowed everywhere else is an exception made for import cars over 25 years old. Why do people like you make up answers when you know full well you're just pulling it out of thin air?
K trucks are super practical. They might be illegal in my city but I see small family business use these to haul inventory and deliveries. If they were an option i could see myself renting one time to time.
It has nothing to do with being an import or cheaper. Its simply that when it was built it didn't meet DOT regulations. Older vehicles are only held to the standards at the time they were built.
blame the big three and W bush who wrote the awful CAFE standards that punish smaller vehicles and allow MASSIVE 4x4's to be virtually emissions exempt
@@KnightmessengerIt might be that the EXEMPTIONS he's talking about that came under Bush. Not really sure, just guessing. Would have to research that one.
@@Knightmessenger The CAFE standards and regulations have been changing frequently since they were introduced. Before, it was just, "Corporate Average Fuel Economy." So you could make a small fuel efficient car, to offset your hulking 1 ton dually truck with a 454 big block in it, running through a 3 speed automatic with no overdrive. They have since changed it to not care about the Corporate Average, but each vehicle has to meet a certain metric. Those metrics get more and more lax, the bigger the vehicle is.
Crazy that they won’t let you buy a foreign made used truck, wonder if it had anything to do with new truck manufacturer and dealer campaign bribesIMEANcontributions.
@@hippievan4040 motor vehicle licensing is a state issue, I never claimed it was federal. However minimum vehicle safety standards ARE a federal DOT issue.
all the company needs to do is change some things and make it more street legal and safe. or do you want the law to be remove and ban all old cars. theirs already new companies making these to be 100% street legal in the usa.
Simple, those Honda Trucks cost around 3-5k, and they do a pretty good job at hauling despite its size, a new F-150 cost around 80k. Which one do you think benefits the most to a lender?
It competes with the expensive cars of the big three. And guess who's giving the politicians juicy kickbacks and their big commissions after they leave office...
Kickbacks are outdated. Now they get paid by insider trading, and the way they get insider info is by getting seats, and the way to get seats is through lobbying.
Industry doesn't want the public to have access to affordable transportation. No one will buy a 50k+ Car when they can get one of these for less than 10k.
Would you care to explain why someone would buy one of these vs just a regular used car or pickup for under $10k? Oh wait ...there's no good argument for that. Because the moment you look into the Kei truck side of things it falls apart
When you don't understand the difference between the two vehicles. I am finding it harder and harder to believe we'll make it as a species when there's so many stupid people.;
Can’t have cheap transportation don’t you understand? The people might opt for that over buying vehicles that cost more than the average house did a few years ago. 😖 This is evil.
Don't worry, in europe is way worse. We have to pay 40K€ (45K$ taxes included) for a mid size car. Mid size for us, to you it will be a sub compact small tiny car, not to mention the obnoxious 3 cilynder 1.2 liter (73 cubic inches) turbo charged mild hybrid engine. Want to talk about taxes? For a 500HP car I would have to pay 5500€ (6K$) per year just because I own it and gas is 8$ per gallon. Better not to talk about insurance.
@@F51361fuck me sideways, 6k for road tax!!!! I have a 510bhp jag V8 here in the uk and i pay the top band of tax, i think its about £680 per year & thats more than my insurance
"There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse." - Thomas Sowell I translate that to, “never underestimate the ability of governments to screw things up!.”
Cuz laws in America aren’t to protect or help citizens. It’s to create profit for the govt and handlers in charge. “We the people” really need to stop being sheep and fight for something together.
It has nothing to do with the fact that it's an imported car. The American truck makers grouped together and got it banned because it competes with their giant gas and diesel guzzlers.
There must be something else wrong with this banned vehicle because I noticed that Volvo big rig 18 wheeler semi trucks are not banned in the USA even though Volvo trucks are imported from Sweden?
@@224dot0dot0dot10 The tiny little trucks are affordable and get great mileage. Most people don't need or want giant trucks that just keep getting bigger every few years. Look at the size of the older Ford F150 trucks compared to the newest ones. Now look at the pricetags. The older trucks were physically smaller and more affordable to the average person, the newer trucks are running as high or higher than many sports cars, and are almost big enough to require a commercial driver's license.
You can't just sell a vehicle without it passing inspection. That Jeep is close to 80 years old and is no longer in production. That tiny flat-bed is being made today however to call it a "modern" is a bit of a stretch.
@@Hope4Today9 The only reason that Jeep passes inspection is because it's past the 25 year limit, so most modern safety requirements aren't necessary to pass inspection.
It’s not because it’s cheaper, it’s a mix of old tariffs and stupid government regulations, it the only tariff remains from the chicken tax retaliation and the reason American trucks aren’t like it are because they are required to emit a certain amount of emissions compared to their size, and it’s easier to make a tuck bigger then more efficient
@AgentWashington28 I was under the impression those got banned ? Like I'm not one that thinks we should ban anything I'm just saying there us a perfectly logical reason it's not legal in some states
The truth is “free” markets are markets free from meddling, not free from government. They’ve managed to convince Americans to believe the lie that free markets means free from governments and nothing else.
This is a good reminder that American corporations pretty much get to write their own laws here. The only reason these trucks are banned, as so many others have pointed out, is because of big truck manufacturers being scared of actual competition
They're trying to prevent you from dying after getting hit by a Prius and turning you into mangled meatflaps after driving one of these meatgrinders 💀💀💀
Might want to look into all the changes the EPA has made since the 90's regarding trucks and their minimum fuel efficiency. It's why we no longer have small pickup trucks, it's physically impossible to get their requirements met which is why we have so many behemoth sized trucks now and the only small pickups you see are pre mid-90's.
is that why all these are now coming out to be street legal? this has nothing to do with big companies. people just bought a foreign non legal street car. now that these companies see that there's a market in the usa they are making them all street legal. also are you not America 1st shouldn't you want only American built vehicles sold?
The 1945 Jeep is allowed because there were no safety device or smog device mandates then. The Kei truck was not permitted because it may not have had enough safety devices or smog devices for that year. This is what some lawyers call grandfathered in. If such things did not exist, every vehicle would be required new smog gizmos added evey few years, or even completely new smog engines.
Modern truck manufacturers are big mad you can buy a $3k option vs their $80k rolling financial crisis.
Finally, someone blames the right people.
"But our option has air conditioning and leather seats!!!! Also our 80k$ option will completely smash anything lighter than our SUV"
their new business model is to get everyone into their rolling data collectors so they can sell every conversation and bit of your cell phones data (calls/texts) to data brokers . along with having you get their credit card . they’re not auto manufacturers anymore as they’re just banks and tech companies now .. good times 🫠🤓🎉
@@moriyamakyon1067and don’t forget their option also has a higher profit margin than a Porsche 911.
@@moriyamakyon1067true but having more affordable vehicles mean more people having access to them. Also k truck can do a lot of work, maybe not as much as you 80k one but I see them up heving the work truck industry if there were legle. Everyone would have one
I drove a Jeep in the army. Don't worry about being impaled on the steering wheel in a collision. You'll be thrown so far from the Jeep it will be amazing!😂
I sense a back story 😂
He is telling you the truth
I learned to drive a stick in the motor pool on an old M151. Glorious
1979-1983
@@faranger 84 to 88
I've often said, any similarity between "right and wrong" and "legal and illegal" is purely coincidental.
I find it interesting that we've been so indoctrinated to think that Religion/superstition is the authority on Right and Wrong enough to bring Religion into this discussion. IMHO, they just wrote down already established tribal knowledge.
When people base their entire moral compass around laws and how they'll follow them like the ten commandments, kindly remind them that alcohol was illegal, and slavery was legal
@@SmD-ff5xdalso kindly remind them the Bible condones slavery.
Also, remind them the Bible condones slavery
@@Cara.314 I didn’t know that! What part of the Bible is that in? I haven’t studied it much.
@@oldretireddude still didn’t name the verse where slavery is mentioned…Try again….
Not because it's an import, but because it's an import that is far cheaper than domestic.
And better quality. Embarrassing to "domestics," half of which are actually hecho en Mexico.
Because it has the steering wheel on the wrong side. With the wheel on the left it would be legal.
No. Because they don't have the same safety standards as domestic vehicles.
Yup and this isn't the first time either (why we STILL haven't gotten certain cars)
@@Pachamamakite There's no actual laws against having this steering wheel on the right side
Law makers know why. Lobbyists know why. Everyone knows why. It isn't safety, it's politics.
But it's still safety, sort of. Obviously anyone can dee that the Honda is better in any way (except looks) but if it was never tested in the US for road safety and is not over 25 years old you can't legally drive it.
The same reason why the Skyline R34 is mostly still banned (altough some early models can already be brought in due to their age).
If it is over 25 years old you can legally import it and drive it.
The jeep was built in the US and is a milotary vehicle, makes sense why it's so unsafe. But since it was built in the us and is also very old you can legally drive that without any safety features.
Small trucks are also liable for mich stricter emissions rules which is why so many manufacturers build big trucks today.
@@Z38_US yes, modern trucks are stupid huge because it was cheaper for thr manufacturers to increase the physical size of the truck rather than meet the emission regulations. A classic example of unintended consequences.
@@terryhiggins5077 Yeah that's because the EPA is stupid.
This is exactly why cars in the US in general are so gigantic nowadays ,it's simply to exploit the emissions loophole since vehicles of specific sizes and above get laxer regulations and as a consequence of that cars nowadays in the US are gigantic.
I don't live in the US (sadly lol) but in Europe and someone in my town drives, what would be considered a small Truck in the US (it's a standart RAM Pickup).
Over here this truck is absolutely gigantic. Seeing actual US cars in Europe, especially imports never meant to be sold here, really shows you just how comically large the cars over there actually are and for some reason I love every bit of it lmao
@@Z38_US Exactly. And trust me, I hate how they're so dang big anymore.
@@Z38_US cars in America are gigantic because Americans are gigantic. Ever hear of Andre the giant.? In America he was known as Andre the dwarf
Newsflash. Most of the postal trucks you see on the road have NO airbags, antilock brakes or catalytic converters! Being government vehicles, they're exempt!
But most on them were built in from the 80s -94 on an s10 and explorer frame.
Rules for thee, and not for... well let's just say it's important to convince you we did something for the environment. The Sebators need cheap heath insurance and ither perks from a government subsidized business they privately own.
@@mywholeheart472
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I have to drive the Mail Cat from time to time. Pucker factor of 11
This doesn't really feel out of place. I know tons of people driving vehicles that wouldn't pass a modern inspection that are acceptable because they met the standards of their time when they rolled off the assembly line.
It's often easier to just wait for the vehicles to age out than to try and force people to get rid of them early when rolling out new rules like that.
Now on the other hand if those postal vehicles were purchased after such rules were put in place, that would be much more interesting, but it sounds like the design just predated stricter standards.
The less doors than a Boeing mid flight made me laugh HARD
I died when I heard that one!
You better start crying now because one is heading for your house now 🎉😢
@@staycurious3954 nah the ones that really have to cry are the ones who live on boings new emergency "runway".
its a good thing that American houses are so soft
Why did that arouse you?
I had to re-watch it again because I heard nothing after this line!
The government never made sense.
Got to vote these fools out.....
It makes send when you’re a corporate lobbyist.
Nowadays the voting system is completely rigged. If voting actually made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it.
Ah you don't know do you? How can voting in a crooked system ever do anything ? They designed it this way ..they even give you a choice of candidates that will serve the agenda , you can't vote your way into this mess , that's like trying to dig your way out of a hole by digging deeper , when has a politician ever done anything honest ? Or for the people ? , crickets chirp
Systemic corruption like this isn't just Gov level... Like a deep level infection you have to cut it out entirely
@@Zarastro54 Reminder: lobbying is just legalized bribery that a lot of countries around the world have rightfully outlawed.
America learned quick. Ya can't beat em, ban em.
Yep, like they did with suzuki when they were outselling the wranglers with the Samurai
Nah, it because of chickens and bad emissions regulations.
@@AS-R-bx3zi Lol, thats the 'reason'.
@@AS-R-bx3ziemmision regulations? Really? a kei truck vs any other american trucks?
Russian school
Yep, legality has nothing to do with safety, but everything to do with economics.
The boomers decided all that mattered was economics. As long as the big line goes up surely everything was and is fine.
With corporations lobbying
corporations buying out politicians. not just "economics"
Welcome to the USAaaaaa ✨️
That’s why I’ll never face a moral quandary when it comes to sidestepping the law as I see fit. Anyone who follows the law by the book is just getting used like a clown.
Cause legal and illegal got nothing to do with our safety.
But it all have to do with money
*Because
@@RalphSampson... cause*
GREEDY GREEDY SUITS SITTING IN BOARDROOMS IN COURPERATE SUITES
Mahindra Roxor should make an exact duplicate of that M38 WWII willys Jeep and the Dodge M37 : - )
Don't do this, don't do that, can't go here, can't go there......but pay all your taxes, be quiet or else.
Health and safety rules were written in blood of those who died without seatbelts, airbags, warning signs, labels, or thinking. Fuck rightfully off.
Lobbying is a legal form of corruption
Lobbying is just bribery with extra steps. Jk. There's no extra steps!
Don’t forget non-financial bribery also happens and is typically done through ‘charity’
The person is correct lobbying anyone in Washington or anyone or anywhere else is a legal form of corruption if you don’t believe it just check the laws in this country legal form of corruption
Indeed
Well said
Gov: *"It is illegal for the masses to win."*
Corps*
All of the above
Plutocracy that pretends to be a democracy.
By the power of lobbying, those are al the same thing
More like manufacturers lobbying the Gov
american automotive lobbyists are a big reason why cheap cars don’t exist anymore
Not necessarily, it's been emission and safety regulations that make it hard for new cars to developed cheaply as well as small cars.
@@magnusrylander
That Jeep has no emissions equipment. Neither do my 1953, 1962, or 1989 FORD trucks.
@@RalphSampson...which is why when they were new they sold for like 2-6k each
@RalphSampson... Yeah, but the industry is trying to get those things off the roads so that they can get their modern crapboxes in full use. Easier to make money on a car that breaks more than a car that doesn't.
That and excessive emissions standards forcing engines to be be WAYYY too over engineered and expensive to develop and manufacture, it’s also the reason why despite being newer, a lot of new cars aren’t as reliable.
Please keep highlighting this! I heard Texas has already changed this oppressive law.
Looks like the chicken tax is still working to me.😅
well the car import part. the rest of it is gone.
@@Stackali It was just disguised as the CAFE standard.
No this is a new problem. People have already imported thousands. So man that government officials think they are the reason people aren’t buying new vehicles here in America where they get kick backs from either local dealers or manufacturers. And they are blaming it all on safety so that way if you do register and insure one the insurance will be absolutely ridiculous.
This is just Polaris bribing politicians to ban Kei trucks, which would kill their side-by-sides in a fair market.
@@fr_schmidlin it has nothing to do with the emissions, the 660cc engines will pass emissions with flying colors. It has to do with safety. We let the feds innact a bunch of RULES (not laws, no elected representative was involved, just a bunch of unelected bureaucrats) that say any vehicle made has to have airbags and needs to meet front impact standards. In a front impact, kei trucks are pretty sketchy. I've seen videos of the resting, the entire cab flops forward and the driver dies.
I think it's time the lawmakers go to the retirement homes
Them lawmakers need to go to the psychiatric ward instead !!
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Retirement homes? How about the glue factory, lol!🐎
Send them to the old folks home
the long dirt nap
Who replaces them? The over indoctrinated AOC types?
What you have to do is pry the H off the front, slap a big ol FORD logo on it, write F050 on it, and bob's your uncle. No longer an import.
I love the concept of an F50, but if we're cutting half, would it be an F75 for that year?
Robert is your mothers Brother!
The Maverick is already the F50
Snip snip and bobs your auntie
F050 😂
Politicians know whats best for us. The State knows what best for us.😢
They regulate everything, but the ones making the regulations.
That Willys Jeep helped us win WW2....
you can drive that thing Anywhere...
Thank you for your service...
USA are cowards "bEcAuSe It'S nOt UsA mAdE" and all that baby idiocy the USA is made of
@@dayewalker9408that definitely doesn't explain why the kei truck is illegal
@@dayewalker9408thank you for your dumb explanation
This is actually a case of regulating everyone fairly. The small truck did not meet safety standards when it was produced, so, regardless of where it was made, it isn't allowed on US roads.
The jeep DID meet the virtually non-existent safety standards when it was produced, so it is grandfathered in.
Corporate lobbying leads to plenty of stupid laws that exist only to benefit them.
Bribing with extra steps
Just be smart and be on the winning side lol no good deed goes unpunished
Indeed. They are the ones signing the checks, but are they the ones signing the bills?
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BINGO
Hypocrisy of bureaucracy
American Exceptionalism
not this time. The Jeep was built in the 1940s. It is required to meet the federal requirements for automobiles AT THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE. Its called being grandfathered. That is why that mini truck isn't allowed to be registered through the DMV
@@308RoadReady 🤔well said!
@@308RoadReadygovernment hack? Justifying something stupid by stating stupid bureaucratic rules
@@exploregeology4650 Why TF you care? Those who own vintage automobiles know a hell alot more about the subject then 'bystanders' like you. Im a heck alot more concerned about other drivers on their phones relying on autopilot then I am any of the so called 'death traps' owners are very cautious with when driving. Cry a bridge and get over it.
How are you allowed to BUY and DRIVE a military vehicles in the US, that sounds absurd
This is what happens when politicians get together, we lose.
You can make a change instead of whining online. It’s not illegal in my state. It could be legal in yours too
@@obeseperson yeah sure give me the pen and paper to write the laws with
not this time. The Jeep was built in the 1940s. It is required to meet the federal requirements for automobiles AT THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE. Its called being grandfathered. That is why that mini truck isn't allowed to be registered through the DMV
@@308RoadReadybut the Kei trucks do. We were allowed to import ANY japanese vehicle until the rich smelled poor people moving up
@@308RoadReadythere is no legal difference between the two. Both are over 25 years old and qualify as antiques and thus meet the same safety standards (that being essentially none if registered as one) it's not about the legal status of these trucks, its about cost. You can get one of these for $5k, thats about 45k less than the ford ranger or toyota tacoma you could have bought instead. That means the state collects significantly less sales tax and the county collects significantly less property tax. It's all about money, if safety was an issue then things like the cybertruck would never have been allowed to be sold.
So, what's next, are they going to outlaw used cars because people aren't buying new vehicles?
@@davidtindle6973bro what?
@@red_skies80 To difficult to understand?? You can register and drive Kei trucks in Colorado... the video is bs.
More fearmongering against what?? Regulations?? You do realize regulations keep our water clean??
No Regulations = Corporations can dump hazardous material into our water in turn, our food.
Tell everyone you lack critical thinking skills without telling everyone much?
@davidtindle6973 did a Google search, it said he's not lying. What are your sources?
It's in the work , proposed many times under "climate change initiative" and for "security of users on the road bill".
No what they'll do is make restrictions on new engine so tight that e-cars can outshine them. They'll also keep the price of fuel high so that you're essentially paying a luxury tax to use gasoline/diesel vehicles. They don't have to outlaw them just force restrictions so high it's impossible to make them look appealing.
It's too economical and burns less fuel than a hybrid. Straight to Jail....
Not rated to carry the same amount of weight as a normal pick up truck.
@@damnits2200 I'd say the vast majority of people don't need to regularly haul a half-ton of stuff or tow 7 tons. This isn't a very strong argument. Even then these kei trucks are usually capable of carrying about 770lbs, or towing up to a ton depending on the model. Which is more than enough for most applications.
No, it does not burn less fuel than a hybrid. Good hybrids get upwards of 50-60 mpg, the little kei trucks get like 40 max. Some hybrids are considerably less efficient, but the good fuel efficiency ones are what I'm talking about.
@@damnits2200hauls air just as well as any lifted f250
@@Lithane97 my 1992 Subaru sambar will get up to 54mpg in the city. Admittedly the economy tanks on the highway but please know your facts
Rediculous.
"What is going on???"
What's going on is America. They don't care if you die in your vehicle, as long as it's an American vehicle.
It's never about safety. The big 3 hate the fact that we want small, economic trucks that they can't charge $70k+ for.
The big 3 would love to make small trucks, the gov won't allow them to do it anymore. That's why the s10 and rangers are gone.
@@bigboytoyz541 now we got "rangers"
like that kid from spy X family who was buffed as fuck, had a deep voice yet we not even half way to puberty.
technically not a full size truck, but fuck me if it dont look like a full size from a long time ago
thats why ill never get rid of my nissan D21 hardbody pickup, 22 MPG good enough for me.
@@bigboytoyz541 "oh the maveric, the maverick!" the maverick is the size of the largest pickup available in 1970
@@bigboytoyz541this. EPA ratings made the trucks larger do to how the tax laws are.
@@riograndelocos9639I wouldn’t even call the Maverick a truck, it’s a uni-body and I think it’s AWD as opposed to 4X4. Not that it has to be 4X4 to be a truck but it it either needs to be 2WD or 4X4, AWD is for cars and crossovers.
Climbing Mount Everest and betraying the mafia is still less dangerous than being a boeing wistleblower
Lies
Do you think they have that Hitman from a game, Agent 47 or something as their employee of the month?
Yeah... you can hide from the mob snd go into witness protection. But if you cross the industrial military complex, you are knocking on the deaths door.
It would probably be less dangerous to skydive without a parachute than to be a boeing whistleblower.
@@John_Buck I've seen a guy do that and come out fine. The skydiving bit, that is
No government is interested in your well being, they are very interested in your money
Well, except Cuba. Cuba is cool!
Well Gaddafi was doing well for his country up until the rich white capitalist cartel decided to fuck him and his country over. All because he refused to allow them to run anything in his country.
Sensible countries are in fact interested in the populace's wellbeing, as made obvious by the fact that American healthcare charges like all hell while many other western nations have actually affordable healthcare that won't cost an arm and a leg. Probably because, oh I don't know, we in other countries pay a bit more tax?
Legit, it's hilarious how USA is the richest nation in the world yet people are struggling in multiple ways. Corrupt state.
I earn less than Americans (on paper) but I'm not even financially struggling, not at all. I earn on average about $1400 a month (after tax of like 20%), pay roughly $300 in "rent" (I live with my parents because the housing market is kinda wack) and have other expenses of about $250 - 300 every month. That leaves me with about $700 - 800 every month I can do whatever I wish with, and most I save, either in normal savings account or my investment savings account. I even went on vacation last year, a two weeks vacation to Asia. And the best part? I don't even work full-time, I work roughly 24 hours a week, yet still make enough to support myself with a good chunk to spare.
@@ZhadTheRad Simply put, the oppression under capitalism is just more extreme here in the US. As time progresses, I bet ya you'll experience something similar.
@@qwertykeyboard5901I doubt it.
The US is crony capitalist and has a fundamental approach to capitalism, my country is more pragmatic.
My country actually cares about it's citizens, and that results in a bunch of benefits (like paid parental leave, right to healthcare and education) and safety nets (like financial aid from the social insurance agency when you're unemployed, law that protects you from termination without valid reason(Employment Protection Act)).
Compare that to the US where healthcare and education costs a lot, parents work their butts off because they're not guaranteed paid time off by law (instead that being something the employer gives I suppose), employers can fire you over seemingly anything (even if you've been doing your job well. In my country), etc.
Unbelievable . I thought America was the land of the free 🤔.
It is in places, but Colorado is a pot head , illegal migrant welcome state run by the demo-rats
Next let’s talk about how the 25 year rule has nothing to do with safety or emissions compliance and everything to do with politicians selling your right to freedom of choice to Mercedes Benz.
Come to Canada. 15 years and it's fair game, after you retrofit daytime running lights.
Called protectionism, Japan is famous for it, until the US can have full access to their markets, let's protect ours. Unless you'll end up like the UK w/o an auto industry
@@ljmorris6496THANK YOU
@@ljmorris6496don’t care
@@ljmorris6496 weird how the US auto makers had absolutely nothing to do with its implementation.
Affordability through competition is a crime in our “open market”
Yup, that’s why we can’t buy renaults here
That’s why walstreet made it so can’t pull a thing like that gamestop stock again… because only the rich are allowed to play the market
Because it's not a free market
@@jbmp1390 wow captain obvious over here. That was the whole point of the joke. lol
Not even ironic just straight up hypocrisy and stupidity that the states have one of the least free or open markets in the entire world. Monopolies hates any competition and anyone giving what the companies see as their money to some other company
This is America! Land of the Free??? Ain't NOTHING FREE here!!!
Move.
Or quit complaining about it and do something about it.
If you can find a lot of people who agree with you, then you can make the change.
But if all you are going to do is complain about it, you might as well move.
@@WilsonZoneOK Yeah like moving to another country isn't an arm and a leg either. Why are you so desperate to keep this country impossible to live in? "Don't like 100k homes, 80k cars, 10k medical bills??? Move! In this country we pay to be poor! 😤"
Your free as long as you can pay
They're talking about pay for interns.
@WilsonZoneOK
One you can't drive. Another you're not permitted to drive.
No one in their right mind ever said lawmakers were smart.
Or good people or not friends with Joe n epstein
There weren't any lawmakers involved, the Kei trucks were banned by a RULE not a law. Rules are made by unelected bureaucrats. But in this particular case they were right.
I'm a volunteer firefighter, and I've responded to accidents involving local farmers taking Kei trucks on the road. They are a death trap. Or two different occasions, I've seen the cab latches fail in a front impact, the cab flips forward, and the driver is mangled. That kei truck is a far bigger death trap than the Willys Jeep
Most of them are lawyers; far smarter than the average American lummox.
Just like the ones who thought of the dpf filter.... Drive aimlessly for 15 minute regenerations to burn off soot too make more soot. 😂
i mean taking bribes ahem "campaign contributions" from the big three and then doing what they ask isnt exactly stupid.
Because it'll ruin the American truck market. Pure and simple. I want one of those little trucks though. It's pretty much perfect for my life, but it's illegal to get one here in the grand ol US of A.
build one and sell it for less than the japanese version.
Not illegal in the USA, just in the various states. Texas just made them legal to license. It took a lot of work from locals to get to that point.
No, it wouldn't. American car makers would welcome this. The government is the only reason why we can't have these
Land of the "Free"
It wouldn't ruin the American truck market lmao. Yeah because you see so many people driving around in pickups that aren't full sized. Literally the opposite is true. This vehicle would be great for certain businesses though, I know the military uses them. But if you're thinking people are going to trade on their full size pick ups for this..
Whatever they tell you the issue with the small one is, they're lying. The only issue is that it's affordable for the common man.
No airbags or crash structure. Cab over trucks have been illegal in the U.S.A. for decades because they are death traps in an accident. You get crushed by whatever you hit.
@@guitarguymi Yet the point of the video shows you can own a old ass deathtrap & drive it legally on the road..
@@M0vingSaturn523MLMguitarguy has a lot to learn about what government regulation is really about.
The government will often cite safety concerns to create laws that benefit the people in power. And too many people just go with it.
@@justinmadrid8712 When rules are made by the people it effects then yeah your dam right its going to favor only them and nobody else.
I mean the single ply steel body is absolutely not an issue... Since.. you know .. the CJ2A Willys passed 1930s safety regulations (werent really a thing back then) that Honda doesnt pass, neither did several jdm vehicles like the sprinter trueno due to the single ply steel body being roughly as rigid as soggy tissue paper and didnt pass 1980s safety regulations in the United States. Dude has no idea what he is talking about😂
It's about a better product for workers being blocked to support American manufacturers
Just proves once again how absurd these regulations are and have been over the years.
Not absurd at all. VW stopped the van because UT could pass a crash test. Thus Hinda would do substantially worse.
@@johnwren3976 worse than the Jeep, that passengers would SURELY be ejected from in any accident? Maybe you didn't pay attention to the video... 😆
@@johnwren3976
The Jeep's fuel tank is literally under the driver's ass. No seatbelts and the closest thing to a roof is a leather cover.
I'm wondering if you could use the laws' absurdity against itself. If there was a donor car you could keep just enough of the frame to continue to register it as the street-legal donor car, but have the small-truck body. I knew a guy who once did something similar to skirt emissions regulations in the late 1990's. He was doing a complete overhaul of a 1980's Oldsmobile 442, including a body-off frame. While the body was off he purchased the frame from an El Camino (technically a pick-up in that state), but it's literally the same frame as the 442. When completed it is now registered as an El Camino, and didn't have to meet emissions standards, as trucks were exempt. Perhaps put the Kei truck body on something like an old Geo Tracker or Suzuki Samuri frame?
Let’s do away with all regulations do the US turns into a cesspool of pollution from coast to coast & planes falling from the skies because there are no standards.
Same thing here in PA, its a "safety concern" Yet we don't have a helmet law for motorcycles...
In Oregon its "safety concern" yet the Kei Van version is completely fine.
Comical isn't it?
No helmet law in Colorado either
@@Champaign1117, well, those laws DO help with organ donations though, so there's some benefit!
@@robertharper3754 good point actually.
Car manufacturers own lawmakers. They can do whatever they want. They paid for that privilege.
Lawmakers own the entire country and all the people and companies and all the money. They can even create infinite money out of thin air. They can legally do absolutely everything they want. It's the law
@@ekklesiast Corporations own the US government.
@@ekklesiastNo they cannot.
Corporations are oligopolies in this nation
They run the govt.
Dont expect fairness out of an injustice system designed for profit and hypocrisy
But it's white, it should have white privilege oh it's got what every not super rich white person has
It's the GUB'MINT that has taken affordable vehicles off the road...not greedy companies.
In some states, driving K-trucks on the road are allowed: Washington State, Texas, Florida, NC, and a few others. How they became legal in those states? The voice from the public.
I saw one in NC and I was soooo shocked to seem 'em
Texas allows them, I’ve seen a few for years. I’ve seen ww2 era Jeeps as well. Lol
@@thepeskyone some guy down the road from where i live has one parked in front of a duplex
Saw one the other day in NC, they're still illegal in the highways since they can't go fast enough though
I saw 3 today in Washington what a trip
Every two and four years we pretend politicians care, and they pretend our votes actually count for anything.
Some DO care. Some want proposed things like publicly funded elections to take away the advantage of rich people winning elections all the time. But people hate her. Her name is Elizabeth Warren. Another guy like Bernie Sanders wants to go even further but people hate him too. The media smears them and people are INCREDIBLY gullible and fall for it.
So sadly TRUE!😖👍
Ended 1945, the fall to centralize banks, end of freedom. Germany, inventors of all things. The Kei Car sucks it’s not for outside Japanese cities, 650 cc motorcycle engine is not for highway you will be hurt. Cause accident. Willie’s has more modern keeps under Mitsubishi don’t recall all foreign makers, not mahindra India. I’ve drivers Suzuki vehicles, fine. The jeep is a farm vehicle not on road as daily driver ya knucklehead it’s got a PTO POWER TAKE OFF FOR DUMP LIFTING HAY. What ever with to purpose off . Combine tractors all rest get to fields on roads but not going to work or beach on one! Want something silly get a sand rail or other look at me solutions. 2.0 liter okay! Very few keeps going to reinactmw at where German wind and all free. Both dumb choices. A logical fallacy but ones safe so Aldo should be more legaler? Child thinks in such terms.
they literally just care about power, you can say theyll do this and that and the other sucks but theyre both looking for the same prize
Sure, if you think of voting as purely national elections.
How often do you vote in local and state elections? Your vote absolutely matters there
Corruption is killing America
Laws that stop small trucks isn’t even corruption. It’s dumb people. Emission laws pushed for better emission but bigger cars/trucks couldn’t pass so bigger vehicles got more leniency. Problem is it was a lot easier to make a bigger car pass then a smaller one then…. So they pretty much stopped making all small cars.
More like the entire world. It's far behind what people can even imagine. You think the ultra advanced tech can't produce a car that can get vastly better gas mileage? 200 miles a gallon was possible decades ago. And that's a drop in the bucket.
@@Mario-ob8es just because we can make something doesn’t always make it practical.
An example would be they made a fuel based fuel cell and getting over 50% efficiency. (Over double the avg engine) Problem? They were heating the fuel cell to 1100c which uses a metal like tungsten carbide so it doesn’t melt and explode on site. Problem here is to cut a metal you need a harder metal but your not getting a harder metal then tungsten carbide and due to its heat properties heating it up before cutting it isn’t even useful either. So your only real options are a ECM or EDM. (Basically cutting it chemically or electrically)
Problem here? Both those methods are expensive as hell. There is a reason we hardly use them.
We can’t get overly excited because they made something work. The car that got “high gas mileage” often has a least a few things going on that would make it worthless. But the testing they can get out of it is rather interesting. Showing us what can be done. (However may require extreme manufacturing improvements or even laws and public perception)
@@treymiller5736 The technology was locked away from the public for only 1 reason. It would lose the oil barrens an enormous amount of money. It's a drop in the bucket. There is literally 1000s of inventions that are locked away because it would lose powerful people money and control. This is why a lot of tech has been at a standstill for a century in an age of advanced tech.
The carburator that got 200 miles a gallon was tested by various experts and was proven effective, this was a lifetime ago. The inventor conveniently died and the tech was slapped with the "secret patent" like 1000s of other such inventions. Decades and decades ago. The current technology being suppressed is obviously even more efficient and advanced and by no means limited to only automotive.
People have no idea.
Corruption and subterfuge have always been baked into any human system.
They should both be legal. This is the United States
Corruption is always rampant in the U.S as long as an American Company is involved; the U.S govt is also run by said companies.
The imports are obvious competition and the corpos hate that.
Did you notice that the steering wheel is on the wrong side? Probably more a committee of safety nuts than corporation boogeyman.
The lack of safety features on the Jeep get a pass as a historical vehicle when such safety devices weren't required.
Blue state laws at work.
@@morganmcallister2001 There are a ton of import cars with steering wheels on the "wrong side" without an issue
@@morganmcallister2001 the mailman drives on the wrong side...
@@marioisawesome8218 Are any other vehicles allowed to be sold with the steering wheel on the wrong side?
Back in the 1950s &60s you could buy that jeep for $25.00 out of a comic book.
You are thinking of Sea Monkeys.
I would like to buy a fleet of them please. 😅
@@travissamples3806that is exactly what the US military said.
IIRC, you could do it into the mid to late 80s except out of a JC Whitney catalog. Omix ADA got its start that way when the original owner, Al, would order entire Jeeps in crates just to part them out and that evolved into possibly the biggest source of Jeep body panels, restoration, and aftermarket parts in the world. I worked there until Truck Hero bought it from him
75% of americans make less than 40 grand a year. The average cost of a new car went from 40k ish before covid to 52k currently. We are living in a dystopia.
That’s insane to realize! I make about $25k a year at my warehouse job making a bit above minimum wage. It would take 100% of my wages for an entire year to afford a base model new Toyota Corolla! That’s insane that it costs that much!
That minitruck is about 20k new in Japan. And one as old as that one (1997) can be had for less than 2k in Japan.
I call bullshit. Cite the source showing that 75% of Americans make LESS than 40k a year.
The average American believes any statistics they think shows they are not getting enough free stuff.
Price of vehicles is why I drive a 2005 xtype,cost me $2000, easy to work on,gets bout 28 mpg,get the gauking looks from everyone, gold,black tint windows, original chrome rims,full options and power sunroof.blast to drive.
You forgot to mention the BIGGEST SAFETY ISSUE and REAL REASON… it’s a RIGHT HAND DRIVE … in RIGHTside drive Country …. You Don’t have a Safe line of sight for lane changes and Especially highway passing … EXTREMELY DANGEROUS..!! that’s why !
It is allowed because it's 80 years old. And because it's a military vehicle.
Grandfathered... lawmakers do it so they dont immediately turn large sections of the population into criminals. We have exceptions like this in lots of stuff.
They could always make it illegal to register it under a new owner, which would kill the used market for them and disincentivize people from fixing them up trying to flip them, all without directly penalizing the current owner.
Even for the current owner, I think it would be totally reasonable to set a 5 year or 10 year phase out period so it'd become street-illegal after some time but the owner would still have enough time to buy a new vehicle.
@flamingspinach 100% an option. I haven't seen it been used much lately. I believe they are switching to an incentive faze out model (as seen with the push for electric cars), probably to avoid public outcry.
And seen in many industries, when the market share decreases, they are unable to maintain the infrastructure used to support it. ie. Electric cars fazing out gas stations. And so the lack of infrastructure makes it less desirable to own gas vehicles.
A soft action is often what is needed to take on these emensce tasks. Ps. Thank you for the comment.
The kei truck is 35 years old which is the cutoff for antique vehicles, try again. Hint one is American the other is foreign.
@@silaskuemmerle2505 25. And yes the "foreign" excuse is what detroit used to kill imports to actually drive competition instead of their little cartel.
@@flamingspinach which I hope they don’t do to that full effect. As someone who has automotive knowledge and experience and is an auto enthusiast, that would be disheartening to learn that I can’t make extra money on the side by utilizing my skills, or even get a chance to own a foreign car like that. But that’s just my opinion. I can totally understand what you said as well.
Was a cop for 38 years, 15 as a motorcycle cop. If I saw that white truck going down the street, I wouldn’t give it a second look, unless to think, “that’s a cool looking truck.”
I find it hard to believe that it’s illegal to drive that white truck anywhere in America because it’s an import. Hell, half the cars on the road are imports. My truck was manufactured in Mexico. So it too is an import.
Oregon is another state that doesn't allow the import mini trucks on public roads and it's infuriating! If they won't allow it then at least one of the car manufacturers could make an American version! Perfect commuter vehicle for construction workers! Perfect off roaders with some easy mods! And how hypocritical of the government to be pushing for a green fossil free future but right now they won't allow these little trucks on the road despite them using FAR less materials to build than American trucks and FAR better fuel milage than American trucks. Just goes to show the "green" energy push has NOTHING to do with the planet and EVERYTHING to do with making money!
hello fellow oregonian + kei truck enthusiast
It's bc of the people modifying them to going stupid fast, and it's causing lots of problems.
Not true it's because they can't as effectively monetize them
At the end of the day the actual reason is because these trucks are nowhere near capable of adhering to US vehicle safety requirements. Even in low speed accidents kei trucks are rolling coffins.
Would you be ok puttering around town making grocery runs or whatever? Yeah, probably. Taking one onto the freeway is suicidal ideation.
Ford makes the Maverick?
Government... It's ALWAYS government in the way.
luckily here in north carolina those kei truck are legal to drive on the street
Love North Carolina, it’s great here
same in Alabama, sadly i can not afford one
Same in Florida
I think new jersey does too but dont quote me.
Same here in Washington State. I would buy one, but they are a little too expensive for what I would use it for: a dump run truck.
It all boils down to hypocrisy and corruption. With a dash of stupidity
No, it's called laws and they are governed by grandfather claws...
@@thomasfurniss2026 grandfather clause*
second, who do you think makes those laws? Politicians, and who benefits most from a imported vehicle ban? Domestic auto manufacturers
do the math
It's more than a dash
You can buy and register these things in most states. I have a shocker for you all. NOBODY buys them.
Stupidity would be buying one of those Kei trucks.
*The public:* Asks for small, affoedable trucks.
*The big 3:* Builds 100 000$ EVs instead.
*The public:* ...
*The big 3:* Asks for government bailout. Repeat.
Those EVs are a direct result of government intervention. But yeah I agree they’d rather sell us these monstrosities rather than actual practical, small, and affordable vehicles
And I ride a bike !!!
@robertcleveland1940 do you like turtles?
Almost NOBODY mentions the fact that we don't have the electrical grid to support all the vehicles that are coming along! Make sure to carry a generator in your Tesla Trunk!
@lesliedeana5142 is that really a fact? But we can build a dollar general every seven miles, but Teslas are going to be the problem?
Freedom, the freedom of corporations to manage your life.
America is a corporatocracy, not a democracy.
Is that really a word?😂
@@ZerokillerOppel1 a corporatocracy is an economic, political and judicial system controlled by business corporations or corporate interests.
We were never a democracy
I like it, but my dentures fell out trying to pronounce it.
You were wrong to assume it was a democracy. Its officially a Constitutional Republic.
No affordable healthcare, no affordable housing, now they don’t want affordable vehicles?! Something’s messed up in this country 🤬
It's not about the vehicle it's about where it comes from. If it is a foreign car it has to pass all the same tests US made cars have to which includes emissions and also crash testing.
These K-trucks have never been put through these tests because they were never sold in the US and as such aslong as they are younger than 25 they are illegal, just like any other foreign car that never got tested properly.
It's not a conspiracy it's just general laws applying to any vehicle veing exploited here for views nothing else.
Welcome to the american dream! ❤
@@Z38_UStell me how a vehicle with no seatbelts or airbags is permitted to drive on roads or motorcycles for that instance but Japanese cars aren’t? It’s not a conspiracy, just automakers loosing out on cheaper vehicles that do the same job as a $80k truck
@@Z38_US Huh? And how that JEEP is totally fine!??🤣 Somethings definitely wrong here trust me
@@LadiesMan-bo2cc because the vehicle with no seatbelts and no airbags is over 25 years old and thus legally a classic car and therefore doesn't have to conform to any modern regulations because it is too old for that.
The other is probably not 25 years old yet and thus is still illegal.
Once it turns 25 you can also drive the other car legally (if you spend the money importing one which will likely be expensive ontop of finding it in the first place).
Because of the same idiotic law which prevents people in the US from buying a Toyota Hilux.
For real. I drove an '89 diesel hilux in Papua New Guinea. That thing was so sweet!
Toyota won’t let that happen
Toyota hilux: the evolution of revolution
Are the rich the only ones that get to own hylux in the U. S. ?
@@hosslane320 Toyota used to make Hilux for the American market, but they just called it a "Pickup" which is weird as that's the generic term for a truck. It'd be like if they called the Camry a "Toyota Car". The problem is that the pickup/hilux we got here was only the 22r or 22re petrol engine. It's a fine engine, well made and very durable, but severely lacking in power for even a small truck. We never got the diesel version. In fact, there are, to my knowledge no diesel Toyota vehicles in the United States. I'm not sure why.
Two reasons for that: 1) US mfrs don't want competition 2) If you're driving the Jeep, you're a hobbyist. If you're driving a vehicle that's been manufactured recently, you're not. Are you advocating that older cars be taken off the road? Because that could happen too!
Maine has a legislation that needs to be voted on. 4 years ago I purchased AK truck legally got it registered it was legally inspected at the time. But in the past couple of years I have been unable to get it registered due to a new law. I find it absolutely bullshit.
I was heart broken to hear about that and the Mitsubishi delica
If it was legally registered before it should be grandfathered in
@balisongman07 Mitsubishi is a Japanese company. So is Honda. Are they going to make all foreign cars illegal? Of course not. Too many wealthy people in this country drive Maserati, Porsche, Mercedes, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, etc. No way are they going make unregisterable _those_ cars. Just cars us small folk can afford. How insipid.
This is ridiculous indeed. However, the reason why the jeep is 100% legal is because it is an antique.
The honda is also considered a antique if 25 years old
You can argue the jeep met regulations at the time. The kei car/van, probably not. Still bs though because of the 25 year law should be good for all vehicles older than 25 years.
@@cwbetbantique and vintage are very much different
@@cwbetbdepends on state.
And made in the US.
Its called "Grandfathering". A 1920 Model T is still street legal in all 50 states.
It's absurd. You can make all kinds of ridiculous things legal with that. Considering its origins, the term itself is quite controversial.
@@lastflightofosiristhe term grandfathering is controversial?
By law, you can own and operate an imported vehicles as long as its 25 years old or older. So the Kei trucks should be legal. Yes they are slower and they can't haul as much as a full size truck. But they would be great for light loads. Besides new vehicles are too expensive for the average person anymore. That is why I recently bought a 98 tacoma while I could afford it. A new one will set you back around 30k.
@@williammorrow5479 I don't believe you or there would be literally millions of foreign cars flooding the USA. Every GTR would be heading to the US the moment it hit 25 years old. Perhaps the Japanese cannot afford to keep cars alive 25 years since their government applies ever increasing license fees as a car ages.
@@williammorrow5479they still need to meet safety standards
Cost major car companies like selling expensive cars and hate cheap vehicles. Government is run by the greedy.
It's America, wouldn't expect any less. The poor have to stay poor.
@shaneebz5292 the white pick up is also illegal in Europe, while the army Jeep will pop up from time to time.
Poor stay poor everywhere
Excuses, work hard
@@nahumhernandezg2188 Dumbest comment I have seen this year (and I get flat earth spam).
@@DavidSmith-vr1nb no, it's called immigrating to the country to do better
This thing has the capability to disrupt the market of heavy pickup trucks with low fuel efficiency.
Most people don't even need that much powerful pickup trucks.
Only good thing for them are hauling massive stuff
usa needs trucks, neither of those belong on the interstate.
@@-Nick-T silence shill.
In rural areas kei trucks would sell like hot cakes.
@@jdguy23 They aren't even good for that. They're inefficient and some of them are way too high and bad weight distribution. Most of the huge trucks I see are spotless, lifted, and in the suburbs covered in stickers.
A perfect example where something can be banned, yet be a proven better alternative than something the government endorses.
Cough cough Chinese evs
*The government endorses because big business/the rich bribe them to endorse it. Just to be clear about the cause of the corruption.
It’s not better at anything else other than farming
-government- / _companies_
@@elitegaming2913its pretty great for not murdering children compared to the 80k American pickups
"It got less doors than a boeing mid-flight" 💀
And people think we're a free country. 🤣🤣
All lobbying so car companies can sell giant f*cking suv's and trucks to soccer moms and men who need to compensate for their small di*ks. We cant have anything small and practical in this stupid country because of the EPA and stupid beaurocracy.
free... from foreign better products competition
Well free-er. I'd still rather live with these rules than have to live in somewhere like China. There was a guy who got his modified Lexus IS confiscated by the police because he didn't know the right people in power.
Do you of a place with more protected freedoms than the US?
Yep, we’re not, the us is a joke
This is your state government at work making life miserable...😂
What "STATES RIGHTS!" actually means
This is what happens when your country is run by corporations
corporatism and socialism.
Gov is supposed to prevent this from happening, but padded their pockets with corporate bribes instead.
This is why Country's never last, too many rules then a revolution.
Corruption, plain and simple. It's irresponsible to pretend we don't know that's what it is and say "lol what is going on?"
Kalifornia controls emmissions standards for all cars made in the US and there are plenty of missed good vehicles not making it to our shores because of emission standards - its all a racketeering operation, our once great Republic is dead.
Jeep meets 1948 emission standards. Honda does not meet 1996 emission standards. You provide a loophole, manufacturers stop meeting emission standards. That being said, those mini-trucks and side by sides can actually be tagged in my free state of WV. Enjoy your blue state.
@@n2omike and the uh k truck would survive a 60 mph crash
@@glasswulf6346 Mini truck didn't meet 1996 safety/emissions for the year it was built. 1944 Jeep is Grandfathered in. Here in WV you can tag Mini Trucks and SXS's. Just not supposed to take them on interstate highways. Enjoy my Freedom. Couldn't stand to live in a blue state.
@@n2omike You have no idea what you're talking about. The reason they're allowed everywhere else is an exception made for import cars over 25 years old.
Why do people like you make up answers when you know full well you're just pulling it out of thin air?
The fact that K-trucks are illegal is nonsense. They seem very practical. Maybe US manufacturers should make their own.
The EPA killed small trucks, that's why the new Rangers are the size of old f-150s
K trucks are super practical. They might be illegal in my city but I see small family business use these to haul inventory and deliveries.
If they were an option i could see myself renting one time to time.
The EPA won't let them. That's why the S-10, Dakota and small ranger went away.
They have no impact protection you crash at a slow speed and tgere is nothing in front to avsorb the impact
@@gabproductions3312 make them with a nose then, and put airbags in, that's not why they're illegal, otherwise motorcycles would also be.
It was the deal that was made with the North American truck manufacturer. It is their greed and you’re suffering.
It has nothing to do with being an import or cheaper. Its simply that when it was built it didn't meet DOT regulations. Older vehicles are only held to the standards at the time they were built.
Imagine being that confidently wrong
blame the big three and W bush who wrote the awful CAFE standards that punish smaller vehicles and allow MASSIVE 4x4's to be virtually emissions exempt
CAFE existed in the 90s, well before W.
@@KnightmessengerIt might be that the EXEMPTIONS he's talking about that came under Bush. Not really sure, just guessing. Would have to research that one.
@@Knightmessenger The CAFE standards and regulations have been changing frequently since they were introduced.
Before, it was just, "Corporate Average Fuel Economy." So you could make a small fuel efficient car, to offset your hulking 1 ton dually truck with a 454 big block in it, running through a 3 speed automatic with no overdrive.
They have since changed it to not care about the Corporate Average, but each vehicle has to meet a certain metric. Those metrics get more and more lax, the bigger the vehicle is.
@@dposcurogood, I like big trucks and I ain’t gonna lie…..
@fastdude2002 no problem with liking big trucks, but there should not be any incentive to not build smaller trucks or cars.
We need to end the corporate cronyism
It's saving your JOB DIP
Crazy that they won’t let you buy a foreign made used truck, wonder if it had anything to do with new truck manufacturer and dealer campaign bribesIMEANcontributions.
😅😅😅
Nope, everything to do with right hand drive…
@@cube252002 It’s not federally illegal to drive a right hand drive vehicle, nor illegal in the states.
@@hippievan4040 motor vehicle licensing is a state issue, I never claimed it was federal. However minimum vehicle safety standards ARE a federal DOT issue.
all the company needs to do is change some things and make it more street legal and safe. or do you want the law to be remove and ban all old cars. theirs already new companies making these to be 100% street legal in the usa.
Simple, those Honda Trucks cost around 3-5k, and they do a pretty good job at hauling despite its size, a new F-150 cost around 80k. Which one do you think benefits the most to a lender?
It competes with the expensive cars of the big three.
And guess who's giving the politicians juicy kickbacks and their big commissions after they leave office...
The law was passed in 1988.
This little trucks aren't competing with the big three. 🤦♂️
Kickbacks are outdated. Now they get paid by insider trading, and the way they get insider info is by getting seats, and the way to get seats is through lobbying.
Honda Acty trucks and similar trucks are now legal to operate on the road in Texas, it’s definitely possible to make it so in Colorado as well!
Industry doesn't want the public to have access to affordable transportation. No one will buy a 50k+ Car when they can get one of these for less than 10k.
You can thank Mercedes Benz for that spearheading the Imported Vehicle Safety Compliance Act.
@@casualgamers3369 you can thank weird American safety and design laws for that one btw
Nah
Corporate greed and men in suits who buy and own _other_ men in suits.
Would you care to explain why someone would buy one of these vs just a regular used car or pickup for under $10k?
Oh wait ...there's no good argument for that. Because the moment you look into the Kei truck side of things it falls apart
@@tiagobelo4965 no, you can literally thank Mercedes and other German manufacturers
When you don't understand the difference between the two vehicles. I am finding it harder and harder to believe we'll make it as a species when there's so many stupid people.;
The 80yo vehicle is only held to vehicle laws made before its construction. No new laws can not be applied.
It's been Grandfathered in, we call it in Ohio.
Except in California.
Depends on the state. Trust me, been there.
@@criticalevent
If enough money goes to the correct place,
even in Newsom-ville.
@@richardlincoln8438 ya if it goes into the car to make it compliant with modern emissions requirements, thereby ruining it.
Can’t have cheap transportation don’t you understand? The people might opt for that over buying vehicles that cost more than the average house did a few years ago. 😖 This is evil.
Don't worry, in europe is way worse. We have to pay 40K€ (45K$ taxes included) for a mid size car. Mid size for us, to you it will be a sub compact small tiny car, not to mention the obnoxious 3 cilynder 1.2 liter (73 cubic inches) turbo charged mild hybrid engine. Want to talk about taxes? For a 500HP car I would have to pay 5500€ (6K$) per year just because I own it and gas is 8$ per gallon. Better not to talk about insurance.
@@F51361fuck me sideways, 6k for road tax!!!! I have a 510bhp jag V8 here in the uk and i pay the top band of tax, i think its about £680 per year & thats more than my insurance
Bribery and corruption in action, i mean lobbying and "public interest" in action.
"There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse." - Thomas Sowell
I translate that to, “never underestimate the ability of governments to screw things up!.”
Cuz laws in America aren’t to protect or help citizens. It’s to create profit for the govt and handlers in charge. “We the people” really need to stop being sheep and fight for something together.
It has nothing to do with the fact that it's an imported car. The American truck makers grouped together and got it banned because it competes with their giant gas and diesel guzzlers.
There must be something else wrong with this banned vehicle because I noticed that Volvo big rig 18 wheeler semi trucks are not banned in the USA even though Volvo trucks are imported from Sweden?
@@224dot0dot0dot10 The tiny little trucks are affordable and get great mileage. Most people don't need or want giant trucks that just keep getting bigger every few years. Look at the size of the older Ford F150 trucks compared to the newest ones. Now look at the pricetags. The older trucks were physically smaller and more affordable to the average person, the newer trucks are running as high or higher than many sports cars, and are almost big enough to require a commercial driver's license.
You can't just sell a vehicle without it passing inspection. That Jeep is close to 80 years old and is no longer in production. That tiny flat-bed is being made today however to call it a "modern" is a bit of a stretch.
@@Hope4Today9 The only reason that Jeep passes inspection is because it's past the 25 year limit, so most modern safety requirements aren't necessary to pass inspection.
@@224dot0dot0dot10
The Volvo you mentioned cost the same as domestic so is no threat to take over the market.
It’s not because it’s cheaper, it’s a mix of old tariffs and stupid government regulations, it the only tariff remains from the chicken tax retaliation and the reason American trucks aren’t like it are because they are required to emit a certain amount of emissions compared to their size, and it’s easier to make a tuck bigger then more efficient
A Kei truck is also a death trap too
@@JohnDoe-iw7zc they never cared about that when companies made “smart cars”
@AgentWashington28 I was under the impression those got banned ? Like I'm not one that thinks we should ban anything I'm just saying there us a perfectly logical reason it's not legal in some states
@@JohnDoe-iw7zcit’s rather ride a death trap than ride a vehicle that will be hazardous to the environment
@staringcorgi6475 why?!? What?!? Your safety should be paramount to anything else in this world other then the safety of your children
It’s not about safety, it’s all about disgraceful corporate lobbying and extreme corruption
They talk about Free Markets But they are the spokesmen for Monopolies and Vested Intrests.....
capitalists love free markets when it gives them an advantage. The moment it doesn't benefit them, it's a "threat to national security"
The truth is “free” markets are markets free from meddling, not free from government. They’ve managed to convince Americans to believe the lie that free markets means free from governments and nothing else.
Because laws aren’t made about public safety, they’re made about corporate profit.
This is a good reminder that American corporations pretty much get to write their own laws here. The only reason these trucks are banned, as so many others have pointed out, is because of big truck manufacturers being scared of actual competition
They're trying to prevent you from dying after getting hit by a Prius and turning you into mangled meatflaps after driving one of these meatgrinders 💀💀💀
And CAFE
So what you're saying is that the government doesn't have our best interests in mind?
Might want to look into all the changes the EPA has made since the 90's regarding trucks and their minimum fuel efficiency. It's why we no longer have small pickup trucks, it's physically impossible to get their requirements met which is why we have so many behemoth sized trucks now and the only small pickups you see are pre mid-90's.
is that why all these are now coming out to be street legal? this has nothing to do with big companies. people just bought a foreign non legal street car. now that these companies see that there's a market in the usa they are making them all street legal. also are you not America 1st shouldn't you want only American built vehicles sold?
The 1945 Jeep is allowed because there were no safety device or smog device mandates then.
The Kei truck was not permitted because it may not have had enough safety devices or smog devices for that year.
This is what some lawyers call grandfathered in.
If such things did not exist, every vehicle would be required new smog gizmos added evey few years, or even completely new smog engines.