"I turned into a bloody ute, Morty!"

No I actually can't guess it. Because you already told me what it is.

I saw these on Barbados when I was working there (sort of) one summer, but the only time I remember in particular was when we had a flat tire on the right rear wheel of our rental Mini Moke-- another interesting vehicle indeed. Ours didn't have a spare so we called the rental company.

Rental agency sent one of these microvans out with two big guys in the front seat and a really big guy in back. Really Big Guy picked up the right rear corner of the Moke while Big Guys changed the tire.

We decided Really Big Guy's name was Jack.

Oooooooh! Good pun.

"Jack not name, Jack job!"

Nice! See a fair number of Japanese cars up here in Canada.
Apparently the older a car in Japan is, the more expensive it is to insure. After a handful of years, (15 in my area I believe), they are allowed to come over to this side and have a second life.

It's not insurance, but taxes and inspection standards.

In the US, a car that has 60,000 miles on it is considered "Low Mileage" for practical purposes.
In Japan, a car that has 60,000 miles on it is considered " Extreme High Mileage" and subject to expensive yearly inspections that are very easy to fail. If the car fails an inspection, there is no "do over". The car can't be renewed for Japanese roads and must be scrapped or exported.

Taxes increase after 13 years, but it's the inspections that are the real killer.

Ah, all I knew was it costed more. I don't even remember where I got my info from. Though I do have a friend who's rather car savvy, has a right hand Subaru station wagon themself.

That's a system designed to force people to buy a new car when the car is still in good shape at 60,000 miles. Basically, to benefit the Japanese auto industry.

As the saying goes, "The purpose of something is what it does". So I would agree with that analysis.

Yes there are benefits to not having poorly maintained rustbuckets on the road, but there are also benefits to the population having access to inexpensive motor vehicles. So I am against vehicle inspection laws. I also think requiring seatbelts are a good thing, but airbags in cars were a huge mistake. The limited research shows pretty well that they are not cost effective. If you look at road death rates, all the meaningful declines happened roughly before 1990. (Remember that the average age of a car is between 10-15 years. So declines in the year 1995 can be caused by cars from the early 1980s wearing out and not from cars sold in 1995.) Much of the small reductions since the 1990s can be attributed to better road design, rather than car design. Things like rumble strips on the side and middle of the road. Many crash barrels and crash barriers did not exist in the 1990s, yet made huge reductions in road deaths when implemented.

I think a strong case can be made that all the additional expense and complexity in cars from the last 30+ years has been largely useless as far as safety.

That's interesting to know. Thanks for sharing that insight! =0)

He's going places!

Looks like a Mitsubishi Bravo...?

DINGDINGDING

There's a place here in Texas that specializes in JDM imports. Some of them look like they'd be fun to have, but I do have to wonder about the maintenance issues on something like that. Where do you take it for servicing where they would know how to work on a right-hand-drive vehicle, and can they even get the parts?

Nice.
So their transmission is on the right?

LOL. Suuuuure. I work for an auto importer/exporter and you'd be surprised at the interior of the right-hand drive vehicles. Almost everything is exactly like the left-hand drives except for the gear shifter which, naturally, is used by the left hand.

Just a normal vehicle. Clutch pedal on left side like usual. Turn signal and wipers stalks are reversed though.

This is my 3rd RHD vehicle so I am used to it.

It's a Mitsubishi. I know that much.

Broom, broom!

Let's hope you will not use you roo's strong legs to push the gas pedal harder

Oh, very cool!

In the same boat as Northern here very cute. See a number of Kie cars around they are legal in my state on low speed roads

Here in North Dakota, they are street legal to 55 MPH.

In practice, something like a Kei passes as a regular car and has almost no chance of getting pulled over any more than a regular car. Though in practice I would actively avoid driving it on the interstate wherever possible. Most routes where I live have paved alternate routes to the interstate, but there is one place where the interstate is the only reasonable paved option for about 10 miles.

I'm getting mine for an in-town vehicle anyway, so this won't be a significant problem for me.

i have the feeling the police aren't really enforcing the low speed thing they aren't marked in any special way. Where I've seen the kie cars would be hard if not impossible to get to following the rules

Mitsi beechi. Had a Mirage right out of HS, and a buddy of mine placed a 3 of diamonds on the dash... kept it there. .thought fit the logo very well .

Is it the electric version, or the gas-burner?

I own a Mitsubishi iMiEV electric car.

Only ones over 25 years can be imported to the US, so it has to be a gasoline powered one. The electric ones have effectively zero chance of lasting 25 years to be imported.

Was never offered as an EV.

I mis-read the article I found. It's the Mitsubishi Minicab that had an EV option.

A large container for mints

He'll probably have a mint dispenser installed somewhere.

Ooooh, those tiny things!!! I really didn't see you as a tiny van sort of guy. Last van I remember (or was around for) was that GMC Astro variant (I think)
That new/old (What model year is it?) little thing could probably fit clean into my current van.
Anyway, looks like it could be a little fun!

I had a 94 Cevrolet Astro van for years. This is about 2/3 of that size. Their kei vehicles are tiny, yet crazy big inside.

The Bravo is also a 94, AWD. It is fuuuun.