Straight answers to the questions we get asked on the phone every week — written from our own stock of 949 vehicles rather than from spec sheets. No hype, and no pretending the registration question is simpler than it is.
Every kei truck camper build runs into the same wall, and it is not money or skill. It is 350kg. Here is how to spend that budget, and which truck to start from.
Read the guideHA4, KS4, DD51T, S110P, U42T. The codes on an auction sheet say more about a kei truck than the model name does — which generation, which body, and whether it is four-wheel drive. Here is how to read them.
Read the guideInsurance is the third question, after import and registration, and the one buyers leave until last. Here is why it is awkward, what kinds of policy exist, and exactly what to ask before any money moves.
Read the guideNo kei truck has an EPA rating, because none was ever sold new in the United States. Here is what the published figures actually say, what the physics suggests, and why fuel is the smallest line in the budget anyway.
Read the guideMedian, quartiles and range across every priced vehicle on our own lot, split by model line, body, drivetrain and odometer. It is one importer's asking prices at one moment — not a national market average, and not what anything sold for.
Read the guideFlat out, most kei trucks will see somewhere in the sixties. Comfortable is a good deal lower than that — and the number you should actually be thinking about is not a speed at all.
Read the guidePeople ask for a left-hand-drive kei truck every week. The honest answer is that they barely exist, that converting one costs more than the truck, and that right-hand drive is a smaller problem than it sounds.
Read the guideA dealer's view of lifting a kei truck: what the platform tolerates, what breaks first, what you give up in exchange, and why the answer to "is it legal" starts somewhere you might not expect.
Read the guideA cab-over kei truck has a better approach angle than most pickups and weighs less than a side-by-side. It also has twelve-inch wheels and not much clearance. Here is where that trade lands.
Read the guideThe honest numbers, taken from our own lot rather than from spec sheets: the median kei truck, the cheap end, the expensive end, and the four things that actually move the price.
Read the guideThey look interchangeable and they are not. Where the engine sits, how the drive works, and what each one is genuinely better at — plus the one that is a worse first kei truck than its fans admit.
Read the guideThe factory rating is 350kg. What that means in gravel, mulch, hay bales and pallets is a different conversation — and the bed almost always fills before the axle complains.
Read the guideWe buy and sell only Kei trucks. It's what we do best.
Free door-to-door delivery anywhere in the continental USA.
Your truck is insured and professionally delivered.
Fuel up, hit the road, and get the job done.
