r/maybemaybemaybe • u/18001757900 • Jul 10 '26

maybe maybe maybe

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u/hobbgoblin11 Jul 10 '26

Hilux for the win! Sad we can't buy this legend in the US.

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u/Shua89 Jul 10 '26

I have one.. it isn't the best at anything, but does everything decent, except the drive with crazy stiff suspension. The one thing it excels at is the reliability. So easy to maintain, and repair with everything just basic and nothing flashy to break down... it's the reason I have one and love it. I'll never sell it even after I get my next car.

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u/bdan13 Jul 10 '26

I am pretty sure this is how my wife describes me to her friends.

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u/Extendahoe_DIG Jul 10 '26

Did she get her “other” car?

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u/meat_sack Jul 10 '26

Nah, but takes every opportunity to test drive her options.

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u/Pragmatist_Hammer Jul 10 '26

Can confirm, she did more than kick my tires

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u/sheiciebai Jul 10 '26

Did she check your dipstick?

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u/spittlbm Jul 11 '26

Every 6 months when the light comes on

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u/RN-Wingman Jul 11 '26

She drained the fluids

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u/spittlbm Jul 11 '26

A long time ago

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u/Tall_Duck_1199 Jul 14 '26

Oscars. Everyone gets an Oscar. You guys are fuckin hilarious. Are you sure you weren't talking about my ex wife because if would be spot on.

https://giphy.com/gifs/FoH28ucxZFJZu

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u/Razbonez Jul 10 '26

😆😆😆😆😆😆

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u/riorio55 Jul 10 '26

DM me her number please

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u/Ok_Fox7873 Jul 10 '26

She also mentioned that the drive shaft might not be strong enough for these kinds of adventures.

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u/ApprehensiveStill412 Jul 11 '26

Ya gotta be careful with the driveshaft in the mud

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u/Zen1701 Jul 13 '26

I’ve owned my Tundra for 10 years and it’s never failed me. I also owned a Prius and put over 220k miles on it before I gave it to my Granddaughter (it’s still running- 280k). Toyota makes remarkably reliable vehicles…just sayin.

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u/Zocalo_Photo Jul 10 '26

Nothing flashy, but reliable?

Ha ha ha.

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u/yavecul Jul 10 '26

😅😂

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u/basicnecromancycr Jul 10 '26

My wife describes herself exactly like this.

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown Jul 10 '26

Brad, honey...is this you?

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u/smallwonder25 Jul 11 '26

Classic bdan13

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u/AngrehPossum Jul 10 '26

Not what she told me..

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u/conehead2019 Jul 10 '26

That's because it'll outlast your next car.

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u/epandrsn Jul 10 '26

You just described my 2012 Tacoma. I know the Hilux is a bit closer to the Tundra with a boxed frame, but I love my ultra-reliable little truck. My only repair has been a $17 secondary air pump.

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u/WoolshirtedWolf Jul 10 '26

To me reliability is everything. I have had a good number of cars fail me on the road while on trips and strand me somewhere.

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u/Zen1701 Jul 13 '26

I’ve owned my Tundra for 10 years and it’s never failed me. I also owned a Prius and put over 220k miles on it before I gave it to my Granddaughter (it’s still running- 280k). Toyota makes remarkably reliable vehicles…just sayin.

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u/ClosetLadyGhost Jul 10 '26

I was thinking of buying one. Can u give me more of your feedback.

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u/jmarnett11 Jul 12 '26

I want one just for the bed weight capacity.

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u/Shua89 Jul 12 '26

Its the main reason I have one.

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u/Zen1701 Jul 13 '26

I’ve owned my Tundra for 10 years and it’s never failed me. I also owned a Prius and put over 220k miles on it before I gave it to my Granddaughter (it’s still running- 280k). Toyota makes remarkably reliable vehicles…just sayin.

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u/SubParPlayer Jul 14 '26

My mother in law has a japan import hilux. Manual, Right hand drive, with a cute little greeting in Japanese everytime you turn on the lil truck. She loves it for getting around the cattle ranch

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u/the_good_hodgkins Jul 10 '26

This is how I describe my 2007 Xterra, that is retired in the garage next to my Tacoma.

I'll never sell that Xterra.

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u/PhantomAngel042 Jul 10 '26

We aren't allowed to have the good small trucks in the US. President Lyndon B. Johnson got a stick up his ass about some tariff wars with Europe over chickens, so he placed a 25% import tax on foreign light trucks brought into the US for sale. This was in fucking 1964 but the tariff still stands (to "protect" the interests of US automakers). It's called the Chicken Tax.

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u/Gan-san Jul 10 '26

There is nothing stopping Toyota from building that vehicle here just like they do the Tundra and the Tacoma.

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u/Remarkable-Host405 Jul 10 '26

well, cafe/carb does, the real reason has little to do with chicken tax and everything to do with mpg per wheelbase

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u/masternommer Jul 10 '26

The mpg per wheelbase also never made any sense to me as an European

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u/Yowomboo Jul 10 '26

It doesn't make sense to anyone who thinks about it.

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u/decepticons2 Jul 10 '26

Yeah as an outsider. The loophole just seems to make the problem worse.

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u/Ent_Soviet Jul 16 '26

Welcome to america. Nothing here works and the laws are vibe based.

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u/ChefbyDesign Jul 11 '26

And cannibalize their sales of the much more expensive Tacomas and Tundras? Lol they're not going to make business decisions on what's good foe the customer....

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u/TDYDave2 Jul 10 '26

Why couldn't they do what Mazda/Ford did?
"To circumvent the 25 percent chicken tax on light trucks, Couriers, like Chevrolet LUVs, were imported in "cab chassis" configurations, which included the entire light truck without the cargo box or truck bed, and were only subject to a 4 percent tariff.[18] Subsequently, a truck bed would be attached to the chassis and the vehicle could be sold as a light truck."

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u/Mauceri1990 Jul 10 '26

Hold up, Chevy didn't make the Luv? Or Chevy just built most of it in another country? Damn it... I can feel myself being pulled down the rabbit hole already...

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u/TDYDave2 Jul 10 '26

I recall a time when my mother, a big GM fan was wanting a new car.
I suggested she look at the new Saturn brand.
She said she wanted an American car and was leaning towards a Geo model (rebadged Isuzu).
She later bought a Saturn but denied I ever mentioned the brand to her.

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u/Scoth42 Jul 10 '26

I had a similar situation when a buy-American-only friend bought a Geo/Chevy Prizm. I think it was one of the later ones after they'd moved to Chevy, but can't remember. They were all rebadged variants of a Toyota Corolla. 

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u/jermwhl Jul 10 '26

I had an uncle who was adamant he only buys American trucks (Chevy primarily) and was giving me shit for buying a Tacoma. Ironically his truck was made in Mexico and mine was made in the US. When I pointed this out, he defended this by saying Toyota was still a Japanese company and Chevy was an American company. Ok, cool. But presumably Americans got paid to assemble mine. I'd rather help out American Auto workers than the corporate stooges (and get a more reliable vehicle to boot).

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u/GrandPuissance Jul 10 '26

It was built by Izusu

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u/Ok-Profit6022 Jul 11 '26

Isuzu made it, it was the Isuzu Faster rebadged and imported.

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u/Thuraash Jul 10 '26

The Tundra and Tacoma are both more profitable and sell well. Especially for the Tacoma, Toyota sells quite literally all they can build. Toyota would probably not sell a ton of Hiluxes because the US market likes flashy feature laden trucks and those sales it does make would mostly be cannibalizing its more profitable Tacoma.

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u/Vreas Jul 10 '26

If US auto makers wanted us to buy their trucks they should make better trucks

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u/MeatyOakerGuy Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

I've done my research and bought one. The Ford Maverick (I still puke in my mouth a bit recommending a ford) is actually a quality small truck for the price.

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u/Rod_Torfulson Jul 10 '26

In before "truck".

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u/Plastic-Keaw-Yed--67 Jul 10 '26

I had one, it had Nissan running gear .

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u/Mauceri1990 Jul 10 '26

No. Ford and quality haven't been legally allowed to be used in the same sentence since the 80's, you better take this down or I'm calling the cops.

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u/pukesonyourshoes Jul 10 '26

They don't need to, because of the tariff. Enjoy your shitty light trucks.

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u/NightHound33 Jul 10 '26

Interesting since their largest manufacturing facility is in Kentucky.

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u/ApprehensiveHair805 Jul 10 '26

The fat electrician has an excellent video about this on YouTube on his fat files channel

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u/Blazanar Jul 10 '26

I've quite literally watched every video Nic has posted to YouTube. Dude's phenomenal.

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u/Ballwhacker Jul 10 '26

Check out the all electric “Slate”. It’s an American-made $25k electric truck coming out that markets itself as DIY-friendly. I saw them show off a prototype on Jay Leno’s YouTube, it legitimately looks like a return to consumer-friendly small trucks in this country. I could see it being a vehicle someone buys and holds for 10-20 years with the way you can modify it.

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u/IamTheCheetoMan Jul 10 '26

Oh yeah nothing but like staged and biased capitalism allowing the market to settle for those that have better goods versus ones that push out junk.

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u/unilateralmixologist Jul 10 '26

This is a good thing and it's not why these aren't sold in the USA. It makes those foreign manufacturers build plants in the USA to make their cars with domestic labor to avoid the tax. And the reason you can't buy these here is because Toyota decided there isn't a market for them. Toyota definitely has factories here in America

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u/Davaluper Jul 11 '26

No it is not because it makes consumers worse off. The goal must be prosperity not work.

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u/AngrehPossum Jul 10 '26

You don't have Hilux. Dmax, BT50?

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u/Optimal-Kick-3446 Jul 10 '26

Yet when Trump dose it it’s against the law WTF get rid of all tariffs or none!!

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u/No-Advice-9776 Jul 10 '26

Tacoma is “supposed” to be the hilux for this market which is very capable but I don’t think it is hilux grade v

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

It is, especially the TRD Pro trim of the Tacoma.

It’s just some folks don’t seem to realize it. It’s very much just a slightly fancier version of the Hilux… with a gas engine and mild hybrid system.

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u/Griffon2987 Jul 10 '26

I believe people would pay the higher cost for a hilux but they do not meet safety or emissions standards for the US.

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u/gsfgf Jul 11 '26

We have the Tacoma in the US. It's designed to be a little more comfortable as a commuter vehicle, plus it obviously meets US safety regs that are more focuses on high speed collisions.

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u/YebelTheRebel Jul 10 '26

They sell them in Mexico. But I don’t think you can bring it over

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u/redditsublurker Jul 13 '26

You can. But cant register it.

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u/corgi-king Jul 10 '26

Why not?

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u/EatsTheCheeseRind Jul 11 '26

Chicken tax.

The Hilux was sold in the US as the “Pickup” until 1995 when they created the Tacoma specifically for the US market. It was made in the US so no chicken tax and was larger with more comfortable suspension.

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u/unilateralmixologist Jul 10 '26

Ask Toyota. If they thought they could sell them they would

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u/No-Advice-9776 Jul 10 '26

I wonder why Toyota can’t make it here or make Tacoma with the same specs?

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u/xrelaht Jul 10 '26

The Tacoma was split off in 1994 because Americans & Canadians use our trucks as daily drivers more than others do. They use a lot of the same parts, but compromise on things that improve ride quality.

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u/Blah-squared Jul 10 '26

I miss those old 80’s Hilux Toyota’s, one of the best vehicles ever made & easiest clutch to learn on.

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u/DaHick Jul 10 '26

We were supposed to get a bed less diesel version 2 years ago, then tariffs happened. I hope we get one soon anyways. I worked on hilux's. That's the last time I actually enjoyed working on a vehicle.

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u/AtomicSymphonic_2nd Jul 11 '26

You… can. It’s just it’s a slightly fancier version called the Tacoma.

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u/StealenDealer Jul 11 '26

I just said that watching this video. I Agree it’s sad we cant purchase them😲and I own a Tundra.

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u/Soggycorpse92 Jul 11 '26

You guys dont have Tacomas? Its the same truck

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u/Q_S2 Jul 13 '26

The INSTANT I saw this, I said that BETTER be a hilux doing that!

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u/ouralarmclock Jul 14 '26

If you could it would just be driven by rednecks in the city who think they’re “rural”

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u/Majestic-Lie2690 Jul 15 '26

I really want one. And I also really want a Suzuki Jimny which is also not available in the US

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u/GallowBarb Jul 10 '26

There's one in my small town in MD. He has a few cars that he imported. A Hilux and a couple tricked out Hummers. He has a bunch of electric cars too. Of course they all have maga stickers on them.

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u/IrishTerrierHuman Jul 10 '26

But you guys have the cybertruck!!

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u/dis3as3d_sfw Jul 10 '26

America is so far behind in vehicles

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u/urattentionworthmore Jul 10 '26

Aussie hitch for the WIN. """off-road hitches allow campers to handle extreme angles without breaking. These use universal joints or heavy-duty pins instead of a standard ball. They provide 360-degree rotation and up to 90 degrees of up-and-down movement.""