How does each hold up in a collision tho? Crumple zones take up space, not something terribly present in the kei truck.

Not that this makes the 2500's faults or anything. It just seems worth noticing.

Anyone drive one of these in Canada during the winter?

One of these are not for work. You don't risk a dent on a $60,000 show piece.

I recently bought a car and really wanted a kei truck, but I have to drive highway to get to work and I couldn't find a highway legal one for any remotely sane price :/ hopefully I'll find one next time I'm looking

Even Toyota's own Tacoma line is much more modest than that monstrosity on the left side of the image. I think their business and marketing people saw the trend in America for increasingly larger pickup trucks and pushed back against it, realizing themselves that it's pointless and ridiculous to have a truck that large.

All of the Tacoma's I've driven were pretty straightforward trucks despite it having 4 seats.

Japan is known for not having much on-street parking, you need the extra 10 feet of height to see over the SUVs parked on every street corner here.

They don't even sell like the tiny rangers anymore, the f150 trucks are so ridiculously oversized

I feel the Ford Maverick is a step in the right direction.

Vans are more useful work vehicles than these giant pickup trucks, since usually you want your equipments to be covered and protected from the elements.