#RadRide at auction today! We're following right along with The Drive's #JDM week here at Tiki Bunny, keeping it going with this 99 Daihatsu Midjet II! Though less modified than the one James drove, it's nonetheless resprayed in a lovely blue and features a van back to keep all your goods safe and dry. The windows on the side and tailgate open upwards, so it's the perfect truck to set up a shop display in when you're at a festival! Who needs a booth? DM for interest or to bid!
It's purposefully designed to make #repair economically unviable!
This shit should be made illegal by @EU_Commission because not even ATEX-certified radios and diving computers have that level of designed-in #unrepairability, and they even have fecking valid reasons to not be easy to be opened.
@Hawkwinter Yeah, sadly these are just 1+0 or at best 2+0 configurations...
Good for delivering parcels and bulk goods in the narrow alleys of italian cities and villages, but also quite spartan since inception.
There are OFC other #CabinScooters mostly from #China and #Japan's #KeiCar class certainly pushed it's domestic car makers into designing anything from a sports car to a box truck and minivan within the limitations of space, engine displacement and output.
I've been saying this for years, but I keep seeing accusations that it's entirely the fault of automakers that we have giant trucks and SUVs on the road because they're more profitable.
STOP. BLAMING. ONLY. THE AUTOMAKERS.
BLAME THE EPA TOO.
Small cars and trucks STILL have market demand, but the EPA's CAFE standards perversely incentivizes automakers to produce bigger and bigger trucks and SUVs instead.
There is no incentive to build smaller vehicles in the word except the #KeiCar classification in #Japan and few nieches like Drving license Class B1 and A1 and subsequent "legal and/or engineering hacks" that serve nieches like "turning a car into legally a motorized tricycle that a 16yr old can legally drive on their own." by neutering it's engine to 15kW & 90km/h Vmax and modding the rear axle...