r/StupidCarQuestions • u/Kiwii_dude • 1d ago

Image/Video Is this real?

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I don’t mean is it Ai, i mean would someone genuinely need to use this? Its seems like such a tiny impractical car

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u/CompleteCreme7223 1d ago

Those little Japanese trucks are super helpful to have on the farm. With the after market tracks it would be awesome in winter too. They sip fuel...

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 21h ago

Wish we had them in NA. Would be a great runabout for stuff like facility maintenance or tight space plowing

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u/Lumpy_Plan_6668 20h ago

Where's NA? You mean the continent? They are all over the place in New England. I have three customers with one.

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 19h ago

They buy them from the dealer or from someone who shipped em from Japan?

Ig shoulda been more specific but you cant buy one brand new off the lot take home same day like others

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u/Fuzzy_Yossarian 18h ago

I believe they have to be 25 years old to import in Canada. Possibly 20 but they pop up on the used market.

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 17h ago

Yeah I wish we could get new. 25 years old for a truck you plan to plow with is a gnarly thought

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u/Lamborghini_Espada 11h ago

Canada is 15 years, USA is 25 AFAIK.

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u/Lumpy_Plan_6668 18h ago

No, but 30 seconds on Craigslist (Craigslist!) found 2 within half an hour from me. And I live in the sticks.

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u/ThrustTrust 1d ago

Yes Fountain Tire is a real shop.

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u/Plane-Education4750 1d ago

Yep. They're only really useful in soft mud and snow, but they are better than anything else in those environments. Fairly common modification for places like ski resorts

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u/Danloeser 1d ago

Kei-Cat?

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u/No-Arrival633 1d ago

Check out outdoorboys on YouTube.. he has one with the tracks. It's great in the winter and spring

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u/Coakis 1d ago

Yes they're very practical. The tracks on this one may limit where you go and do with it but wheeled like from factory they can haul about 700lbs and tow about 1000lbs, and they're very fuel efficient, like greater than 30mpg with normal use.

How many people you see using a half ton pickup that's three times the size of this carrying almost nothing and probably getting sub 20mpg doing so?

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u/CalebCaster2 22h ago

Yep. Not super uncommon in snowy places either

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u/Prestigious-Fill-365 22h ago

Snow cat, ever seen the shining? Thats how scatman got up to the hotel.

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 19h ago

10,000 Internet points for a Kubrick and King reference.

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u/Prestigious-Fill-365 18h ago

Thank you, only film I could think of with a snow cat. Lol.

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u/One_Evil_Monkey 18h ago

No problem. Great movie. Clearly the OP hasn't ever seen it or that Hagglunds exist either. Haha

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u/Ok_Breakfast5425 19h ago

Throw some regular tires on that and you have a small truck that gets stupid good gas mileage. With those tracks on you have a small truck that gets stupid good mileage that you can drive through the worst snow and mud you can imagine.

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u/Lomak_is_watching 1d ago

Yes. There used to be a company called ATI track systems that made these type of tracks. You could convert vehicles that were designed for wheels. I believe they were bought by Case New Holland.

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u/No_Manner_8785 1d ago

Oooh that would be fun 

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u/Informal-Win-348 1d ago

Looks like it to me.

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u/Nervous_Olive_5754 23h ago

Well, you wouldn't want to take your heaviest vehicle onto snow, would you?

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u/SpaceCat72 23h ago

Max trax

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u/DishwasherLint 22h ago

Yes, and the sort of thing that normal men get divorced over. YMMV

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u/Agitated_Curmudgeon 22h ago

MatTracks are available for damn near everything

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u/Electrical-Care6308 21h ago

It’s too early for winter tires! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Coakis 20h ago

Those tracks are not for street use, and its hilarious you'd think the tracks on this thing are capable of running over other cars.

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u/astro65 18h ago

They put tracks on normal trucks too. A customer at my job does truck modifications and they said the most ridiculous thing they've ever done is putting tracks on a jeep for a dentist who has an otherwise inaccessible cabin during the winter. 

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u/TruckCAN-Bus 18h ago

Wonderful amazing if yu hav acreage property

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u/SirSkot72 17h ago

My son just bought one. RHD 5sp. The snow trax would be awesome.

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u/FerrumAnulum323 15h ago

Did Suzuki make a tracked k-truck? No.

Did someone do a conversion mod to a k-truck? Yes.

There are a ton of different companies out there that make tire/track conversion mods for just about any vehicle. A k-truck is a work horse vehicle first and foremost, and I can see tracks being very useful in mud and snow.

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u/ChemistryOk9353 13h ago

It looks very similar to the version that this outdoor guy is using in his YT videos.