Thread 23500241

>best small truck ever made
>it's Japanese
How did the west lose this one?

>>23500241 (OP)
ranger was discontinued in 2011

Toyota and many more japanese brands took pictures illegally and spied on volkswagen and other western manufacturers in the 70s, this is how they got ahead, they did non of the R&D and reaped the benefits

>>23500243
>stole from volkswagen
lel, is that why toyotas get 250 miles to the gallon

>>23500243
it's a truck not a Bugatti, it's had the same basic design since vehicles were invented

>>23500241 (OP)
for me it's the f100 in sky blue

what's that part sticking out near the head light?

>>23500242
ranger was the mazda b series with ford badging lmao.

it was literally made by mazda, anon.

>>23500245
>>23500244
Feel free to cope but in the 70s japan was china tier and they needed to copy absolutely everything from western auto manufacturers who did spend the resources on inventing the technology in the first place

>>23500241 (OP)
Toyota trucks are great for dude bros and suburbanite dads who don't really need a truck.
But there is a reason no one in trades uses them. Any blue collar job site is always full of Ford, GM and Dodge pickups. Toyotas can't hang, they were built for the suburbs.

>>23500250
you were about to share the reason, come back

>>23500249
This guy gets it. There is a reason your grandparents had no respect for japan.

>>23500241 (OP)
I love my '88 toyota . She's rusting at the bed seams. The 22-RE just wants to work forever.

>>23500241 (OP)
I miss her so much bros.

Chicken Tax whitest tax ever made

>>23500241 (OP)
I prefer my Bronco.

>>23500250
Is this b8?

that strikes me as the sort of truck a homosexual might drive.

>>23500241 (OP)
>small bed
>extended cab
There is NO POINT to this vehicle design.

>>23500241 (OP)
We stopped caring about small trucks cause they are kind of shit in NA applications

>>23500253
>. The 22-RE just wants to work forever.
I had a 92 v6 but I also bought a 83 Celica later and holy shit that engine is a fucking JOY to work on.

>>23500241 (OP)
Our trucks are made for Mexican mothers to drive to the supermarket and back with their kids and feel safe about it

>>23500250
>But there is a reason no one in trades uses them
half the reason I support mass deportations is so I can buy a Toyota Pickup from the spics once they get booted
you can't get a decent one for less than $8k in so cal

>>23500258
Your projecting
>>23500262
Woman driving safe anon I don't

Toyotas frame rust so bad mechanics have to check and see if it's safe to put on a 2 post lift. Uncomfortable truth. The best small track ever mad is the 2 door ford ranger with the 4.0 V6.

>>23500256
what generation

>>23500241 (OP)
Technicals.

>>23500259
das rite, I need my 1-ton 4x4 off-road TRAILRAPER Edition pickup to haul those couple of bags of peat moss from lowes twice a year.

>>23500264
You live in a third world non-White ME shithole full of savage desert trials jumped up on White technology that can't win a war against Iran or Hamas.

>>23500268
PUT IT IN THE TRUNK. DRIVE A REGULAR CAR ASSHOLE.

>>23500268
The helix kills any modern over bloated American truck out their today, an old tocomo or helix with a rear locker will take you places those trucks don't even fit

good cheap trucks exist in the US but retards brainwashed by that one top gear episode and thirdies with no other options continue to glaze the hilux

>>23500265
location issue

>>23500268
>TRAILRAPER Edition
Lol

>>23500252
OMG!! That superior Nippon vacuum cleaner was folded over 1000 times!!!

>>23500269
I am from america though and used to have a 2001 tocoma with the trd package before a drunken mistake

>>23500248
False. Mazda was wholly owned by Ford and the Ranger used a Ford power train.

Its also worth noting sushi was a norwegian invention they imported to japan to boost norwegian salmon sales

>>23500250
You're fucking retarded. Tacomas are massive for blue collar types (i know, i am one) in my area

>>23500241 (OP)
wrong board faggot
>>>/o/

>>23500241 (OP)
>>>/o/
>captcha: MPGGJ

>>23500251
Take the famously reliable Toyota F series engine for example, Toyota fanboys cream themselves over how durable and well designed they are, "truly a show of superior nippon engineering" when in actuality it is just a loose copy of the older American designed GMC 235 stovebolt motor.
The more you dig into "Japanese superiority" the more you will find cases like this over and over again, where dumb easily manipulated westerners with no connection to their own history weeb out over inferior japanese shit all the while the western equivalents of the same products easily out perform.

>>23500272
they're solid trucks you aren't kidding.
transmission is kinda dog shit but otherwise not bad

>>23500279
You must be a little bitch plumber or something self employeed I would guess, something you could probably also do out of the back of a fucking Honda CRV. No one is pulling heavy dump trailers or tilt decks with little gay toyota pickups.

>>23500268
a lot of country roads are made of gravel or mud, imagine trying to cross that in the winter or with frost heaves

>>23500279
The contractor I work for just sold this Hilux it got an old Suzuki that used to be a city munipality truck

>>23500249
So why did Western manufacturers suddenly stop making decent cars, did the jappos steal their ability like the bad guy in Space Jam? Why are all the decently reliable vehicles somehow all nip now? Cope all you like, jap cars are simply superior now and have been for decades.

>>23500249
usa is lower than china and maruti suzuki india today

>>23500284
Did a plumber fuck your wife?

>>23500241 (OP)
You can't tow or haul anything with that manlet truck lmao

>>23500276
>drunken mistake
We're you drunk or was it a spic without a license?

>>23500275
FORDED 100000000 TIMES FOR MUCH MORE SUPERIOR SUCC

>>23500285
It fucking sucks being caught out on the highway during winter storms, but we do design these pretty well for it. All while being comfortable and massively capable

>>23500261
>Celica engine a joy to work on

especially after the 3.0 3vz-e amirite?

>>23500261
>How it feels to work on a 3vze

>>23500291
I was the dunk retard with out a license, still dream about that truck sometimes her name was Betsy, luckily no one was injured

>>23500289
Nah, I just don't respect basic bitch trades.
I do big boy dirt work with dozers and scrapers. I don't care what some retarded house contractor thinks about anything.

>>23500295
the first head gasket I ever did was on that fucking demonic engine.
It literally took me a month.

>>23500241 (OP)
Probably like the Japanese birth rates lol

>>23500297
Holy fuck you're so cool

>>23500287
Yeah, they are not, excluding halo cars new toyotas suck ass, toyota yaris cylinders blow out, camrys has ignition failures, hondas have trash transmissions, etc. Most of the reliable japs are from the early 2000s at best, and guess what, so where VWs and other western companies, its a product of modern production where a transmission can be sourced from mexico and assembled in an entire different continent for maximum profits.

In other words: ching chong ping pong

>>23500297
So you sit on your ass in a comfy cab fondling levers an have the nerve to disrespect people that actually get their hands dirty

>>23500294
>especially after the 3.0 3vz-e amirite?
it do be like that Mr. Stancil

>>23500282
Nigger wtf are you smoking. It’s not just cars Japan dominates it’s all heavy industry. America doesn’t even make machine tools any more except for HAAS which is chink tier bullshit. Go to any high end manufacturer and all the equipment is 90% Japanese sprinkled with some fifty year old American and German shit.

>>23500301
Also nippon steel scandal, toyota and many more compromised on safety by fasifying the rating of their metal for frames, big ching chong energy from that one.

>>23500300
Maybe, but my joints are fucked and I no hear so good anymore.
You can make this about me all you want, but I still have a damn good point about how much Nips copied us and were basically the China of our parents and grandparents day.
All asians do is copy, they do not innovate.

>>23500304
No anon, what the fuck are you smoking? Japan has a declining population and is turning tail in every facet of industry. China is the one currently rising, not them.
It's not the fucking 80s anymore gramps. The rising sun has already set. Komatsu never dethroned CAT and now XCMG is hot on their ass.

>>23500302
Yes precisely. I worked my way up to where I am now though, was a mechanic in a pervious life.

>>23500295
>3vze
What the hell was Toyota even thinking.

>>23500247
gun turret

2025.

What about the Chevy S-10?
That was good truck.