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Bookmark or Share- Load/Weight Limits | Japanese Mini Truck ForumRe: Japanese Kei truck calculations, the curb weight is the truck weight empty, without a driver right? In other words, the weight of the driver counts as part of the payload. That is the way it is calculated in the US (Curb weight is the weight of the vehicle including a full tank of fuel and all standard equipment.
- Street legal in PA? | Japanese Mini Truck ForumHi guys. I have done a search on the forums, and found a source from back in 2008 saying that kei trucks are street legal in PA. However, that was of course 13 years ago. I've scoured the PENNDOT and PA DMV websites for a couple hours now and haven't found anything. Anyone here have a kei truck registered to be street legal in PA?
- Diesel? | Japanese Mini Truck ForumThe Japanese kei-car standard has been revised from 360cc or less power source, to 550cc or less in 1976, to 660cc or less in 1990, and so on. The main advantage of kei-car standard is its compact size, but it is also important that it is inexpensive. The use of diesel engines, which are simply more expensive, is still avoided.
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- TOP SPEED? | Japanese Mini Truck ForumIn particular, most of the automatic transmissions installed in today's models of kei-vehicles, including kei-trucks, are CVTs, which can cruise at engine speeds as low as 2,500-3,500 rpm for a flatland cruise of about 105 kmph (65 mph), making even kei-trucks quiet. digression1: The minimum speed on Japanese highways is a uniform 50 kmph (31 mph).
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