Comparison left vs right for a craftsman who doesnt know which one he should buy:
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l/r same bed size
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r lower bed for way easier loading/unloading
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r less likely to crash
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r less fuel consumption and costs
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r less expensive to repair
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r easy to park
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r easy to get around in narrow places like crowded construction sites or towns
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r not participating in road arms race
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l You get taken serious by your fellow carbrained americans because ““trucks”” are normalized and small handy cars are ridiculed.
So unless you are a fragile piece of human, choose the right one.
How does each hold up in a collision tho? Crumple zones take up space, not something terribly present in the kei truck.
Not that this makes the 2500’s faults or anything. It just seems worth noticing.
This absolutely inhumane attitude is why we’re dealing with people’s monster trucks killing people on the road and greenhouse gas killing people the drivers haven’t even met.
Oh definitely, helps if every third car or so is like the one on the right. Would be nice if the government subsidised the right ones and not the ones on the left
Its a tin can basically. Theres a reason why you cant import new ones, you have to wait 25 years. Also terrible emissions for its size.
Another reason you can’t import light trucks from over seas is because there’s a 25% protectionist tariff on foreign light trucks. Combined with a practically non-existent market for them there’s no incentive to try and sell them here.
If a Smart Fortwo can meet those standards there’s no reason a kei truck couldn’t be made to meet them as well.
Except that the studies don’t suggest that. In other parts of the thread, the risk to life and injury works out to be roughly the same for the average collision.
Unless your commentary is: “Less seating means less people involved.” In which case: Good job, hard to counter.
So basically, “fuck other people! I care about my own safety and that’s it!”
Lovely sentiment, no wonder the US is doing so great.
Nah, it was a simple question about the overall efficacy of surviving a crash.
And if you had participated in other parts of the conversation, you’d see that there is actually movement on that front. TL;DR, since you seem in a hurry, both trucks are equally safe at a speed that most collisions happen ( under 40mph ).
But if you want to make that about “AMERICANS ARE EVIL”, I can’t really stop you. <3
Also, this is America. I hate being the murica guy but… Other countries have these windey roads that go around mountains because they’re seen as obstacles or they just don’t have mountain ranges to deal with. Here in America we see a mountain and we see it as a challenge. We build roads directly and straight through the most convenient straight line to the next city.
Now me as a Seattle person I look at the vehicle on the right and I see a great around the town LIGHT hauling truck that would be very useful within those confines.
If I want to go beyond that like say taking the family to Idaho/Silver Lake or even Sun Lakes I’m screwed. Going up the pass with that I’d be surprised if I broke 50mph with that, the speed limit is 70. Not sure where I’d put my family during that drive tbh but let’s pretend they don’t exist… Now I’m up in the pass while going 20 under the speed limit without dieing… What if there’s snow? There’s snow for half of the year. I’m straight up screwed in that car in the right.
Not sure why you would go on a family trip with a work truck. The Japanese truck is specialized for work, because it’s silly to have a work truck that you go on big family trips with.
That said, a quick google for Japanese trucks just picking the first one I can find - the Mitsubishi Minicab - it seems they can go 70mph. The Mitsubishi Minicab has a top speed of 72mph.
Because some people can’t afford more than 1 vehicle.
Also, yes the Japanese truck can go 70, but that’s on an even plane. Put that thing on even a 5% incline and I doubt it’d get up to that speed. It’s difficult to maintain any vehicle at 70 on an incline.
