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How old are these mini-trucks? The article mentions a '91; similar American-made vehicles also had some safety issues in the 1990s. • Dateline NBC 1996 Minivan
by thomassmith65 2y ago
How old are these mini-trucks? The article mentions a '91; similar American-made vehicles also had some safety issues in the 1990s.
• Dateline NBC 1996 Minivan Crash Testing (https://youtu.be/QNNkAvT6lns https://youtu.be/QNNkAvT6lns)
Then again, maybe more domestic vehicles should be illegal.
- jen729w 2y agoMy neighbour (in Australia) just bought a brand-new truck like this. They're in active development and production. Not that I'd feel all that safe in it. The cabin is essentially a matchbox.
- toast0 2y agoYeah, they're in current production, but in the US we can only really import them for general use if they're 25 years or more old. Newer than that and it needs to meet the US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), and probably also the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards too. So everything we see tends to be fairly old. Some states make it pretty hard to register these vehicles too, you don't see very many kei trucks in California because they're too hard to register; import shops exist in California, but tend to sell to drivers in other states.