Talk:Kei truck

This is written from American perspective. It only talks about importing trucks to America, and uses American measurements first instead of Japanese metric.

Yes you are right about that. If someone can add a broader outlook that will be welcome. I cannot do that because I have never even seen one and the only sources I can read are by Americans interested because of the gas mileage. Hughespj (talk) 11:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I love how the US laws treat them almost like toys... how strange, and oddly stereotypical of US road culture. Last time I was in a Hijet it was bombing down the outside lane of a UK motorway passing most other traffic with a load of furniture in the back :D 193.63.174.10 (talk) 14:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

that's because around here they are toys, they are classified as Type II ATVs a catigory that inludes the John Deere Gator, the Polaris Ranger, and the Kawasaki Mule. to become legitimate cars here either the mini trucks adopt our crash standards, or our crash standards lax to allow the mini trucks "and we all know that ain't going to happen any time soon... plus unlike Europe and Japan we actualy have a wide veriety of larger more capable pickup trucks avalable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.235.83.23 (talk) 15:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I placed a POV tag on content in the See Also section. A lot of this is actually pretty interesting but sounds like a commercial, and violates several guidelines such as neutral point of view, no original research, reliable sources, and verifiability. Example: "Kei truck owners work the vehicles hard and are not shy about extracting grueling performance out of these little machines." Hughespj (talk) 18:25, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

The source of this content was discovered, found to be spam, and the material deleted by UnneededAplomb. Thanks! Hughespj (talk) 11:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Definition

Mini truck redirects to this article but I think this should be re-considered. The Geo Metro truck is described as a mini truck in its own article but I don't think it is a Kei truck. The Geo Metro obviously is a mini truck by US standards but I don't think it would be by Japanese standards. Biscuittin (talk) 12:47, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

If you do a search on "Japanese Mini Truck" you will get hits on these Kei trucks. "Mini Truck" unqualified could well be other things. Hughespj (talk) 11:26, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

current manufacturers

A recent episode of "Japanology Plus" mentioned that only two manufacturers are still making kei trucks. Does anyone know which companies? Elsquared (talk) 02:34, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

I followed the links from the sample images and then followed the official website links for each to find that the following (maybe more) are still being advertised for sale in Japan:

• https://www.daihatsu.co.jp/lineup/truck/
• https://toyota.jp/pixistruck/
• https://www.mazda.co.jp/cars/scrum-truck/
• https://www.suzuki.co.jp/car/carry/

• https://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/lineup/minicab_truck/index.html

But the Honda Acty has finished.

Looks like Japanology Plus can't count.  Stepho  talk  03:21, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

@Elsquared: Well, I have to disagree. The Toyota Pixis is a rebadged Daihatsu, while the Mitsubishi and the Mazda are both rebadged Suzukis. As far as I can tell, only Suzuki and Daihatsu remain.  Mr.choppers | ✎  06:03, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Fair enough. The difference between counting badges, vs counting manufacturers.  Stepho  talk  06:39, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Care to add a funny video?

Today, I discovered this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yTKEFuiUXjc

It shows how compact Kei Truck is, compared to 2 deka fumo Touhou Project dolls. 2A00:1370:81A2:E0D:F123:1FFB:EF50:9023 (talk) 10:00, 16 July 2023 (UTC)