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Bringing this truck to the US may be a necessary move by the Trump admin as it re-shores manufacturing and tries to build back the middle class.

Business owners being able to buy a $10k truck instead of one for $120k would be massive for businesses.

He could slap a 25% tariff on it and it would still be incredibly beneficial to the US economy.

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Rich Nost 10mo ago

After all the required regulatory addons (e.g. backup cameras, TPMS, seatbelt reminders, automatic e-braking), I wonder if these would end up more like $18-$20k

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Bill Cypher 10mo ago

Exactly, he can say it is safe and it probably is better than many older vehicles still daily driven. It doesn't meet the various requirements to be sold new in the US. If it did Toyota would sell it here because they know they would print money with it.

The problem is that US regulations for new vehicles make them expensive and complicated.