Mexico unveils the cargo version of its light truck that it will begin selling next year for about $10,000. The Mexican government has been leading project development.

I know Brazil also makes a ton of VWs, or at least they used to. My old mk4 Golf was built there

You can't just say that and not stop a link, or a name

Have they provided a timeline past "we're going to do it?"

And people say women are emotional...

The problem with these fucking god awful abominations driving the road is their ever increasing mass and dimensions. Every year, companies somehow inflate more and more into personal vehicle sizes, and the fragile, tiny dick men buy these things to shore up their desperate and delicate egos. The trend of larger vehicles driving around incentivized a "safety" (more like a capitalism) war, wherein other vehicles had to increase size so that they didn't turn into a new form of powder during an accident. Now, a lot of people buy giant vehicles, as well as little old grandma getting two bags of groceries in a 6000lb Chevy Suburban behemoth. They keep adding sensors and cameras, because it's borderline impossible to see without them. Do you see the problem here?

I say capitalism war because the total profit per vehicle is higher because the selling price is significantly higher. A company makes more absolute profit on a $60,000 mega SUV than a $25,000 sedan, even if the margin percentage is comparable.

You can continue living in your "feminized" truck and justifying dangerous and increasingly fortified vehicles, or you can come down to earth and stop equating people's choice to make the road actually safer by bucking the trend of economies of scale with "dying like a man". More of these kei trucks on the road means the road is safer. It means your crumplezone on wheels is just for looks and not safety anymore. The pathway for safer roads is not to knuckle down and continue indulging in these ludicrously sized vehicles.

Yeah, I think kei trucks look cool as hell but. The driver is sitting right above the motor and fuel tank. They’re fundamentally not safe in crashes. That’s probably okay because they’re also very slow. No one talks about this because it’s not fun.

nothing more manly

Sometimes you need to look like a man.

Other times you just need to work like one.

How many things are you planning to run into? I don't need a tank to do my job, this truck has airbags, it passes all the crash tests, and it has sensors for tire pressure and traction. That's good enough for me.

Is your truck bulletproof? Are you sure you don't need a pope mobile to get to work?

Sure, but Japanese drivers are far more disciplined, resulting in fewer traffic fatalities, than the dolts on the US roads who drive like they received their driver's license out of damn cereal box. By the way, SUV's and pick-up trucks have less stringent crash standards than passenger cars.

IMO the fast charge at home doesn't matter, it's the throughout the day charging that matters the most. 120 km is not the highest range and i can see folks using more than half just throughout the day

Or even be manufactured.

it would be this exact truck, rebranded and spray painted gold and sold for 5x the price.

motocarros (motortricycles with cargo beds

Funny thing, upon seeing the post I immediately thought of Italian Piaggio Ape, which is a light cargo truck based on the Vespa scooter, and was made starting in the post-WW2 years when the economy needed cheap commercial cars. It's still in production to this day, in Italy and India.

It would probably be useful in Mexico City itself. Not so much in rural Mexico where there might actually be distances between pick-up and drop-off.

So, the driving distance would probably be even farther in a rural area?

Are you sure it always will work that way? Logistics can be a real bitch. Returning back to the fulfillment center has costs you need to consider. What's the range reduction when fully loaded? When you need to run the heater and air conditioner?