Cool, but just like the Hilux we won’t see it here in America. All the automakers, including the American ones, think Americans want $100,000 luxury trucks.
I dunno, the Maverick keeps selling out every year.
Availability here was my first question. My husband has wanted a small truck like that.
The government passed some stimulus package for last year that allows people who buy a hundred-thousand-dollar vehicle and to take that amount off their company profit. So, last year it was a hundred thousand dollars even if they hadn’t actually paid that much on their vehicle purchase yet. This year it is $80,000. Since this was a sales gift to auto makers my guess that’s why suddenly so many vehicles cost a hundred thousand dollars.
Fed DOT mileage policies make it unprofitable to make small utility trucks. There are mileage requirements based on vehicle dimensions. So, a small truck with a powerful engine can’t meet the mileage standards and the manufacturer would have to pay a steep penalty on each truck. That’s why you don’t see them any more. There is a huge market for such vehicles. Just look at what a used Toyota SR5 will sell for. Thank your Federal Govt.
Because of the “chicken tax” on imported pickups..it would make them more expensive than domestic pickups.
Prolly can't pass the EPA tests for imports - which they were not designed to.
Another government agency, saving you from yourself.
It’s not just this. Toyota could sell a million of these basic, durable $10k pickups here but EPA and DOT regulations won’t allow them to.
“...we won’t see it here in America.”
I wish they would but it would severely cut into sales of other trucks so we’ll never see it here.
Actually the EPA and environmental laws are written that they cannot sell small trucks here.
I am picking up a brand new Ford Maverick for 21,500 plus 1500 shipping in a couple of weeks. Ford found the market and Toyota is playing catchup. Buying my truck off a dealers lot will cost 10000 dollars over MSRP. You have to order it.
...where they are AFFORDABLE!