Oh look, it's all the trucks that American automakers want outlawed.

For anyone out of the loop, these can be (and often are) in great shape when making it here after 25 years. American automakers don't like competition, but they can't make 1600% profit on small trucks like this so they don't sell them here; there is, however, a market for them in spite of the industry's prevailing attitude.

Since NHTSA already had the 25 year rule, automakers (and more specifically, dealers) had to come up with another way to keep them off the road; they were still filling a niche that they couldn't monopolize out of existence and if one of them did happen to get "Mansfield"ed by a brotruck, the backlash would potentially cost billions. Enter the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), a nonprofit that you've never heard of because you never needed to before: They do things like set guidelines for barcodes on drivers' licenses. Recently, however, they veered out of their lane (as it were) and became an unofficial lobbying arm of the automakers, visiting DMVs and warning them about how potentially dangerous kei-class vehicles are on American roads. Soon, states started refusing registration and revoking existing registrations of these vehicles without any sort of due process while laughably ignoring how many squids become one with the pavement every year riding liter-class sportbikes at triple-digit speeds without any safety gear or regard for others.

It got so bad that even Texas threatened to outlaw them, and Texas...I mean really, have you been to Houston recently??

Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and stopped that particular crusade. Expect it to happen again though, because brotrucks are profitable for automakers but class-action suits are not.