Daihatsu’s Hijet Truck and its Toyota Pixis counterpart gain updated tech for 2026, keeping these kei workhorses current ...

The Yanmar Pony was one of Japan’s strangest little trucks: a kei sized late 1950s pickup with a tiny diesel engine that, in early form, could be removed and used as a portable power source. It failed ...

Measuring about half the length of a Ford F-150, Kei trucks look almost like toys in comparison to your standard pickup truck. But for a car so tiny, you might be surprised at the massive following ...

Hefty export volumes combined with a growing focus on light- and medium-duty products are but two lessons a new report urges North American truck makers to absorb from their Japanese counterparts. The ...

Japan’s government is making a surprising move: they want to buy 100 Ford F-150 pickups, nearly ten years after Ford packed its bags and left the country. Talk about an odd twist in a market where ...

TOKYO — As Japan tries to placate President Donald Trump amid contentious trade talks, officials may be eyeing an icon of American manufacturing that has virtually no presence there: The Ford F-150 ...

TOKYO, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TuSimple Holdings, Inc. (TSP) ("TuSimple"), a global autonomous driving technology company, today announced it has begun Level 4 autonomous test runs on Japan's ...

Sales of Kei trucks tripled in the last five years, with around 7,500 total imported just last year, according to data from Japan Used Motor Vehicle. Meanwhile, auto experts see the Kei truck craze as ...