• credit crazy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Unless you’re talking about towing other cars and carrying entire trees yea a kai probably wouldn’t make the cut but for furniture transportation fire wood mail delivery and mulch transportation are all things that take way less horsepower than you think hell even with car towing I’ve done with a dinky little 4 wheeler from the 80s if a atv can do all the things I mentioned a kai can absolutely accomplish them and you don’t take up soo much space when you take your haul through the city the reason everyone hates full size pickups is because soo many people just use them to get groceries and nothing more

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      1 year ago

      It’s good as a shop truck sure. But most American CARS have double the payload weight of a kei.

      They have a place, but what I was responding to was nonsense. Pickup trucks are a necessity for tons of work. A lot of crews doing different work haul trailers full of their tools and material.

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        1 year ago

        so what’s so magical about the US that people need pickups there but not in the rest of the world? If you need to haul tools you have a van, which can carry a vastly larger volume without getting things wet.

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          1 year ago

          I’m not going to sit here and argue workforce necessities with you.

          Your statement was false, that’s it. Pickup trucks are an immutable necessity for the vast majority of workers in America.

          Cope harder.