Toyota full size/ work van, Hiace

I'm a car guy. I get all the magazines so I know all the cars for sale in the US usually. Today I saw a Toyota van I've never seen before. Driving on I10 through lake Charles. Looking it up it is sold only in counties that get the Hilux. Not in Tacoma countries.
Still it could come with demand.

I remember seeing four door F150s and Rangers years before they went on sale in the US with Mexican plates. Eventually they went on sale here. As someone whose fiddled with Ford Transits and Nissan vans I would welcome a Hilux based van.
It wasn't pretty but knowing Toyota I know that it's a solid product.

This one I saw was decked out pulling a camper. A well to do Mexican family pulling a small maybe 4.5klb RV through the US.(had stickers of the states they went to on it)
It would make a nice adventure van for sure. It's a good size van it looks small in images but it's between an ASTRO van and a Transit in size. Though it was effortlessly pulling at about 65mph.


Anyone know why we don't get the good Japanese work vans here? Only European and Nissan?
I wish I could import one of these in base trim.

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It has the same drive train as a Tacoma.









And I totally get that it's "just an ugly van". As unreliable sprinter vans and Transits become more popular for families that take road trips and for work use. It would be amazing to have an option that was as reliable as a tacoma/hilux.

Same price about $30-35k.