Meanwhile the western world is only offered luxury pickups.
In Aus you can get a Toyota Workmate for ~$30k (AUD) that’s about as bare as you want
Half of Ford F-Series sales are XL work trucks for Fleets. They are still out there, just your average Joe financing a brand new truck probably wants some extra features.
I did drive a tradesman spec Ram work truck for a little over a year and actually came to like the Vinyl seats and rubber floors of it. I could get that thing filthy dirty and clean it in no more than 30 minutes.
You can spec rubber floors in super duties all the way up to the platinum trim, and many do when they find out about it. They’re actually really nice, molded and insulated and everything, not like the tacked down vinyl floors of the past.
It’s fun to see the reaction to rubber floors in an otherwise fully loaded lariat ultimate. Saved me 50 bucks on the option sheet too.
wish we didn’t have the fuckin Chicken Tax in america so we would have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting cool stuff like this
Import it without the Bed and install it in the US. That’s what Toyota did with the original Stout/Hilux to sell them in North America. I doubt this is meeting the current FMVSS though.
The Chicken Tax gets blamed for way more damage than it actually did. Any foreign made Pickup that had an actual chance of being marketed in the US (Ie Transit Connect, Toyota Stout/Hilux, Datsun 720, Subaru Brat, Etc) was imported with minor changes to circumvent the tax.
yeah and Ford brought Transit Connects over with extra seats they threw away when they got here, I would rather just get rid of the stupid tarriff than cause more stupid bullshit to get around it
Would be cool if AUS got it everyone here is obsessed with the higher spec Lux already. Most utes per capita pretty sure. On another note 2.0 100kw engine is insane underpowered considering it’ll be even less to the wheels + with a load
Send to USA!
This seems like a rip off. Starting at $19,000 when the Ford Maverick started at the same price and had double the features as this thing. I get that they’re different trucks with different purposes but I feel like they could do better with the pricing.
On second thought it seems like inflation hit the Maverick like crazy because it now starts at $23,000. I guess the pricing is a tint bit more adequate then.
The Maverick is nothing but a Ford Focus shaped like a truck, its literally the same platform as the Focus. The Hiliux is an actual truck.
As an owner of a 3rz-fe, it brings great joy to see Toyota still putting the 2.7 2TR-FE in new models (the 2TR-FE reused the block of the ancient 3RZ)
the ancient 3RZ
Some would say “venerable”!
Why do you get joy from Toyota still using a lousy 4-cylinder that gets the same MPG as their V6?
Because it’s closely related to the 3rz-fe in my first car. An engine that does nothing but serve me well, and was the best possible engine to learn semi-advanced skills doing maintenance on. The 2TR is continues that legacy, so I’ll root for it.
Also it does get slightly better fuel economy than even the modern V6 GR engine.
Ah, the notorious 2TR-FE. Here in Indonesia the whole TR family of Toyota engines are notorious for chugging fuel.
14 mpg from a 2.0L 1TR-FE on urban driving, 18 mpg on mixed highway/urban driving. The 2TR-FE is a little better thanks to its increased torque compared to the 1TR.
Ah power of a 4 cylinder, Fuel consumption of an 8 Cylinder.
Reminds me of the Mitsubishi Astron variant fitted in older Monteros and Pajeros. Power of a 4 Cylinder, engine the size of a 6 Cylinder, and Fuel Consumption of an 8 Cylinder, Perfect engine!
How does this tiny thing manage to weigh nearly 3 tonnes? I get thats for the LWB version, but wow.
It’s 200 inches long for a start
Where is the .50 cal?
“Babe, wake up. New technical just dropped!”
Mount should be a factory option. Probably have to go to your nearest ISIS distributor to fit the gun though.
These guerilla movements typically have localized fab shops for this kind of stuff
Its more sustainable to shop local.
That will show up over at /r/shittytechnicals
Except it’s a Toyota so it’ll be a good technical.
Good on ya champ
lol they are going to have to rebadge it if they start selling them here. You wouldn’t be caught dead turning up to a site in a ute with Champ written on it.
Studebaker sold a Champ pickup in the US for a few years. Not much of a looker because it used the compact Lark sedan’s cabin on a 1940s frame, with a bed sourced from Dodge’s leftovers.
Damnit just let these sell in the US. All I want is a brand-new bare bones truck I can beat on and carry shit with. I don’t need touchscreens, navigation systems, or a ridiculously smart computer.
I just want a sturdy little truck with a heater, a/c, and a manual transmission. And that Toyota reliability.
Yeah but then can’t sell it for 50k
I hear you, but this is like 200 inches long. It’s no Ram, but it’s not exactly dainty.
I’m not talking tiny. I just don’t want a massive bloated thing that I can’t buy in a regular cab.
Fair point.
Sounds like you need a side by side
Yeah because side-by’s are so great for traveling on the highway.
Was just watching a Thai video on this, gives a good view of its size.
https://youtu.be/Yp8hlLhAW70?si=8PLYUizZ9cZCHxZZ
I hope the next real Hilux has the same front end design, that would look pretty good.
Yep, waiting for it.
An enhanced lite ace I should say
It’s a typical work truck, every setting is only for local company and business buyers.
Truck is still imaged as work vehicle in most Asia countries, most people in there don’t use truck as their daily family car.
I can’t wait to import one to Canada in 15 years.
