re: Why are cheap affordable basic utility vehicles blocked in the U.S. market?

If any of you every drove one of those things in US conditions, the bitching would be epic -

Waaaaahhhhh, no power, can't keep up with traffic waaaaahhhh

Waaaaahhhh, muh AC, waaaahhhhhh

Wahhhhhh, I got runover by a giant Corolla an' kilt, suuuuueeee Toyota waaaahhhh

Waaaaahhh, It's so noisy inside Ima go deef, Ima sue somebody, waaaaahhhhh

If you really want this exact level of functionality with similar performance, go buy a John Deere Gator. As for the chicken tax, Toyota and Nissan have decades of experience in evading it. If they thought more than 10 of you losers would buy one and they could limp it past emissions and crash, they'd sell them here.

Downvote away.