all right welcome back and joining us now is eric peters of eric peters autos uh com and uh i saw

eric's article about a thirteen thousand dollar to yada pickup you can't buy here and got my

attention that got picked up in a lot of different places. I saw that article a lot of different places.

But again, if you go to Eric Petersotos.com, you're going to find a lot of articles there about

mobility, about freedom, excellent site, excellent site.

Thank you for joining us there.

Oh, thank you for having me on again, David.

I appreciate it.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, let's talk about this. What is this $13,000 to pickup? Well, it's called the high-lux champ, and it's available

pretty much every fair except here, which is a really interesting thing. And unlike the KIA,

or I was mispronouncing, K-E-I-K-I, I had difficulty with that word. The little vehicles that you and I have talked about before that are available in Japan.

Oh, that's not, that's not, oh, you're not talking about the Kia.

You're talking about something that.

Yeah, they're essentially little box cars that you've probably seen if you looked at the Japanese market.

This is a, this is a no frills derivation of the high lux that is available in Japan and other markets.

It's a mid-size, not a compact.

It's a mid-sized pickup truck, and it's designed with the ethos of simplicity and affordability in mind.

It starts at $13,000 available with the diesel engine comes standard of the manual transmission,

and Toyota very thoughtfully arranges it so that it's got the ability to be

to be configured anyway you'd like it it's designed to have a box put on the back

out of the state kit whatever you'd like but if you want to turn it into an RV

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