The Nanny State isn’t just annoying and authoritarian, it costs us all a lot of money. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
You have probably not heard of the new Toyota HiLux Champ pickup. Probably because they don’t want you to know about it. “They” being the people who control the federal regulatory apparat, who don’t want you to know that people in other countries can buy a brand-new pick-up for $13,000 or so to start – something no American has been allowed to do (in America, at any rate) for more than 20 years.
And it’s more than just that. The ’24 HiLux Champ is a mid-sized pickup – not a compact. The latter was the last kind of truck you could buy here for around $13k or so brand-new, about 20 years ago.
You can guess why not – and it has nothing to do with “emissions.”
But hang on for just a second while we take a look at the truck you won’t be allowed to buy, if you’re stuck living in America.
The HiLux Champ is everything a truck used to be, beginning with affordable. It costs about half what you’d spend to buy the least-expensive new truck you’re allowed to buy in America – the Ford Maverick – which stickers for $23,920 to start. And unlike the Maverick – which looks like a truck – the Champ is a truck. Put another way, it isn’t based on a FWD/AWD layout (as the Maverick is) and it features body-on-frame construction rather than unibody construction, which is how almost all new cars are put together.
That means it’s tougher and simpler. Easier to fix – and less likely to break.
The HiLux! The choice of revolutionaries everywhere.
Can you get a missile battery/recoilless rifle, SMG?
(rimshot)
You still can’t get a Mercedes Gelande Wagen unless it’s 25 years or older and converted for USA, as of 2022.
A bud is the adopted son of a world class gun shop owner and the Glock .380 really is all that, you can’t that either. (wink)
The land of the fee and the home of the knave?
But, but, but, muh Fweedom Fwies?
I can set off fireworks early in July, I’m like all free n’ shit. and my to work and back leash is long AF. (/s)
What do you mean permits and fees?
Breaking from Slave:
Dreamin’ (Studio Bass Jam 1979)