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Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks

Rural Americans are importing cheap, tiny and versatile Japanese pickup trucks known as Kei trucks, filling a niche that American manufacturers are failing to, but loopholes that allow their import and use might be closed.

  • Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks known as Kei trucks.
  • They are mostly imported under a rule that allows non-compliant vehicles that are older than 25 years to be brought into America.
  • Kei trucks are less than five feet wide and can get into tight spaces that normal pickups cannot.
  • They are easy to modify and repair, and are being sold for around $2,000.
  • Some worry that the loopholes that allow their import and use might be closed.
Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
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