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Bruh the guys engineering that backseat be like: ok here's a list: Cons: -no legroom -no seatbelts -folds even if you don't want it to -you basically can't sit there Pros: - We have a backseat Yeah sounds good to me let's do it
Actually that's exactly why, I think it's to get around tariffs that make a 2-seater a truck, but a 4-seater becomes a passenger vehicle. Ford does exactly this with the Turkey-made Transit Connect, except they throw out the seats after it gets here.
I'm pretty sure everyone has been in reverse when they thought they were in drive at least once in their life and Japan has alot of elderly so that chime alerting you that you're in reverse isn't a bad idea
The Japanese use a different radio FM frequency range then the U.S. so there is nothing odd about the frequency range on the radio in this S-Cargo. Now it might be possible change the frequency range on this radio as some digital car radios have a way of choosing a country locale which determines the frequency range. In this case it would likely involve some hidden setting on the radio accessed via a key combination if it can be change at all in this case.
With Japan's crowded cities and narrow streets, this is the perfect delivery van for it's assumed environment. It falls down badly on Interstates, a habitat it was never meant for. And yes, it's a very weird vehicle anyway.
From the base that I was on, to the other army base, was a long stretch of road. This is in japan, mind you, and these roads were smaller than some of the side roads of the neighborhood I live in here in the states. We were coming back from the other base to see a car flipped on its roof. We sat there in complete shock. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU FLIP A CAR, A NISSAN CUBE ONTO ITS ROOF!?!? The road allowed at best, speeds of maybe 40-50 kph. It's possible.
I like the fact that this particular s-cargo has all the "Japanese car-thing" as original. For example, the black box next to the speedmeter is ETC system, which can automatically pay the toll by just pass away the gate. Also, the 2 stickers on the wind sheild is the car maintenance sticker. In Japan, all car must pass the qualification test every 2 years. if you fail to pass the test, your car can't be used on public road. the sticker says the limit of the test, so you have take it to the nearest car factory to pass the test before the date comes. sorry for my bad English, I'm Japanese, and not so good at using English.
His height is relevant as he's getting into a vehicle he lets you know that he as someone who is 6 ft 3 if he finds it comfortable someone of average height will be just fine
Why Nissan and Toyota thinks that they need to make utility vehicles for America i don't know but they got to stop!! We Americans are fully capable of making our own utility vehicles and have been doing it since the Ford model t went into mass production. Our American utility vehicles also aren't ugly besides chevys 2019 Silverado with that ugly ass grill. Fuck import trucks and suvs!!
We have them here in nz, they're used mainly as mobile adverts and delivery vans for small businesses. They serve a purpose and run alright for what they are. If your looking for a cruiser or a race car your in the wrong car but the rear compartments quite tall and good for signage. They don't rollover that easy either, they have a heavy floor and a light roof and get strenght from the curve of the roof rather than use a heavy structural frame up so high. For a florist, caterer or handyman they're great little workhorses that do catch the eye even if just for being so weird and let's be honest......fugly. They are also fairly reliable....I've seen some over 300k and still in decent shape after years of just being thrashed to bits by careless employees.
heh, every Japanese person I knew who drove has smoked in the car at some point of time while I was in it. I saw people when I was driving around smoking and driving. Some were on their phone while smoking and driving. Japanese people are pretty crazy.
Why am I picturing like 17 Japanese people crammed in this thing? I dont think the fuel economy should be much of a complaint. It is not the fault of the vehicle, or nissan. This vehicle was designed to be a small urban delivery vehicle....not a highway cruiser. Im sure most of them never saw above 30-35mph in their life.
...this thread went somewhere weird, very fast. Anyway, you're thinking more of Korea, China, and particularly Vietnam. Japan doesn't go much for the whole "cramming as many people into/onto a wholly unsuitable car or motorcycle" thing as seems to be common to a lot of the rest of southeast Asia. They're more about highly efficient public transport systems... which then end up heavily oversubscribed and with far too many people being literally shoved into them by special shoving officers. But on the roads themselves, rather more regulated and one seat / one seatbelt per person. Despite the tuner and drifter culture, the official stance on road safety is extremely strict. Hence the overspeed chimes and all that guff.
Might make sense there, but bring it here, and boom, quirk. I bet you if someone in Japan had a car with radio stations up into the 108Mhz frequencies, they'd think it was crazy, too. What's Japanese for "I've got hundreds of stations of nothing but static"?
Thing is, most car radios should be adjustable to different regions. I've even had a walkman that let you choose between European, American and Asian frequency ranges plus the "weather band" up beyond normal FM, as well as at least a couple of different car radios that included similar instructions in their manuals. A modern tuner essentially is good for 76mhz through to 108mhz on FM (or 150ish for those with WB capability?), and about 130khz through several MHz for AM (LW to SW bands, encompassing the common 530~1610khz MW one), as it's just a software programmed PLL circuit, and the upper/lower limits on what it can tune are entirely artificial... and the same module is used for basically everything, including emergency, CB and marine frequency tuners, pretty much just stopping short of also being suitable for wireless microphones and walkie talkies (which start at ~170mhz and then push on towards the Ghz range, overlapping more with TV tuner and mobile phone frequencies than normal audio-only radio)
Yeah, it was a different tone though. If I remember correctly, it was a 2 tone one, like a soft "ding dong". I honestly wouldn't mind that either in a real 86.
Half these quirks make sense if you realize this car was designed to drive in-town its entire existence, quickly delivering goods back and forth. Not for passengers, not for luxury or cruising. I mean, you might as well review a Bobcat. This is a company vehicle. Here's the quirkiest part, half the vehicle is the storage area and you don't show it!
@@rudolphguarnacci197 How does he miss the point? He never claimed the car was supposed to be a Rolls-Royce, he's laughing at what a goofy car this is, it doesn't matter what it's for, it's a goofy car. In his other video he pointed out that as goofy of a car this is he still likes it, and chose this over other Japanese cars he had available
Doug, you are unfairly fairly comparing the S-Cargo to US standards. the vehicle was one of several niche cars produced during that period byToyota, Nissan, and Daihatsu. As a delivery vehicle it was spot on. They were never seen on the highways of Japan, rather they were designed for the narrow confines of Japanese neighborhoods and seldom saw speeds of more than 40mph. As a delivery car it was very successful, and those huge cargo body panels made for a great graphics design slate. I'd want one if it can pass safety. in fact it can be imported as a classic since it's over 20 years old. just the thing for scooting around town, it's intended purpose. And the bell. it was standard equipment on all Japanese cars as a fuel economy measure. A savvy Japanese mechanic could disable it.
Zedword there are more parts to a car than just an engine, lol. but he should still talk about everything. that is why saabkyle and alexonautos are the best
Luis Madero If i can remember i will tell you lol. Its a scene where Takumi and Itsuki are together and hes flipping out. Says something along the lines of "And that stupid speed alarm, shut up!".
I would do an engine swap on it. I don't like tires that stick out of cars like a sore thumb, but for the sake of safety... I would do that to the S-cargo. I think people would definitely stare at it either way.
Actually, the steering wheel is inspired from the Citroën design on the DS, ID, CX and the early units of the XM, when they finally introduced airbags for the driver. This wheel design was a safety feature: back into the days of the DS (1955-1975), with no airbags, the "one radius" steering wheel prevented further damage when a collision happens: it can bend and absorb the shock of the driver on it. Otherwise, you'd collide with a stiff piece of metal that would broke your chest! As I said, it was replaced by airbags in the mid-90's, which are obviously much better protectors (but make steering wheels less cool)
Doug is the kind of guy who puts a dictionary on his bookshelf and says that is as good as having every book written because all the words are in there.
I knew I recognized that "chime". I had a 1991 Pathfinder in highschool. My dad still has it and has over 400k on the original engine, trans, etc.. it simply won't die. Anyway, it has the same chime. Which is, interestingly, a mechanical device with two different bells and hammers.
They are. Japan and the US just decided to have commercial radio broadcast at different ranges. Japanese radio, according to Doug here, goes from 76MHz to 90MHz. American radio goes from 87.5MHz to 108MHz.
You should get some customized, large “S” stickers on it 🤣 Something I just realized: the “reverse beep” existed in my 2001 Toyota Celica GTS and that large, single speed cluster was also in the Toyota Echo, from the same era. It’s like Toyota took quirky ideas from an odd Nissan of the 1980s 🤔
"The back seat doesn't lock in place, The back seat has not seatbelt, And the back seat has no legroom, Other than that though, it's a highly functional and useful back seat" It was hilarious! 🤣
I driven an S - Cargo as a utility vehicle at NAVSTA Yokosuka, Japan. It's not all that bad. A lot of U.S. Servicemember I know of stationed in Yokosuka drove it too, and they seem to like it. 👍
Used to have that problem with my Ranger's mirrors until I finally took them off and tightened up the springs. Amazing what a little maintainance will do.
I used to drive one of these briefly through a job I had. However the one I had was made in the Nissan plant in the UK in the mid 90s so slightly different. It lacked the rear seat, which as I understand it is only there to get a lower tax band in Japan and quite common on Japanese commercial vehicles. Being made in the UK meant it had a UK radio (which would have been as useless in the US but worked in the UK) but the most interesting feature was the ash tray was swapped out with an optional Motorolla/Bosch phone cradle so you could charge your Motorolla or Bosch badged phone as you drove. At the time these were the most common cell phoned in the UK so very useful. But you could remove it and replace it with a drink holder, the ash tray or the same unit in a sedan could have a Bosch taximeter if you were using the car as a taxi. There may have been other options. The biggest difference was the UK ones had an electric motor. But only a 10 mile range.
The S cargo (the S stands for small, ie. small cargo - but the name is a pun on escargot) was never made in the UK, in fact it was never even officially imported into the UK, all S cargots on UK roads are 'grey' imports. The S cargo was, along with the Figaro, the Be-1 and the Pao models, made exclusively at the Nissan Pike factory in Japan and are known as Nissans Pike cars.
@@wangdangdoodie I was told the electric ones were made in Sunderland, although maybe they just did the electric motor and drivetrain. The one I used was part of a sponsorship with the Arts Council so maybe they only gave them out rather than sold them. My guess is they would no longer be road legal as regulations for electric vehicles changed over the years.
I spent some time in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 80's and remember those little vans. We always laughed because when it rained they would all stall out on the road. We would pass dozens dead with drivers sitting inside, waiting for the rain to stop.
Never seen a Japanese S-Cargo stop in the rain... not to mention in Japan your boss would kill you if you waited because of rain and not to mention it came out in 89... what car did you see again?
I kept thinking that during a lot of his critical comments. It's obviously a city street delivery vehicle. You don't usually expect to hit 60MPH or worry about roll overs during city driving. It would be like complaining of a Porsche's endless shortcomings as a dump truck.
beavis6363 Exactly. Japan is full of tiny vans and "trucks" that rarely hit 60MPH. This was probably used as something like a postal service truck in smaller japanese towns.
-Bad news, Doug DeMauro was killed a a car wreck. -Doing 120 in his Viper? -No, parallel parking his s-cargo Dear Doug, I like your channel. Please sell this abomination.
ahhhh, driving a right handed vehicle is amazing... Especially switching over to a left handed vehicle.... It tripped my brain so hard driving on the right side of the road after moving back to the states...
it IS for toll booths, but it's not prehistoric. They're called ETC cards. they identify your car (when there's a card in them) and automatically pay your toll for the expressway.
Brendan A. MacWade That's an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) reader. You put your ETC card into it and Japanese road tolls get charged to your credit card. Besides being convenient you get toll discounts for paying by ETC instead of cash.
That's not a radar detector, it's a Japanese Electronic Toll Collection transponder, like E-ZPass. Most Japanese freeways are privately owned and tolled. Whereas the US has RFID stickers or at most battery-powered toll tags, the Japanese had to invent an overly complex system that requires hardwired 12V and smart cards.
Probably because its a used car. You know, 'coz this is 1980-s car. So previous owner, which was some company, would put this sticker on the ashtray because it has such policy.