The Importance of Miniature Japanese Trucks

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Modern American pickup trucks are not really that useful as work vehicles often. They're huge for one thing, and they're very expensive. But these little old pickup trucks appeal to people who are often car people or vehicle people because you can kind of modify them quite easily. So they've got this kind of huge fandom of people who basically like the simplicity of them.

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