Are Japanese Mini Truck Titles Now Legal?

Japanese Mini Trucks and Title Challenges
For years we’ve been talking about these Japanese mini trucks and how hard they are to get titles for in some states. Many states don’t consider them legitimate vehicles for titling and they consider them to be like a motorcycle or even an ineligible imported vehicle. Some states actually revoke titles for some of these Japanese mini trucks and other vehicles. The confusion came from the fact that there was a 25-year exemption for import documents for some vehicles, which is true. It did exempt them from importing requirements, but it didn’t mean that the states had to title them.

Push for Legalization and New Laws
Well, now after some pushback, a few states are trying to put through some laws to allow these on the road specifically because people love these vehicles. Also, the Nissan Skyline, the GTR—all these vehicles people want to put on the road—and some states are trying to pass laws. Now what we’ve been hearing is the federal government is stepping in to try to oppose these laws because they don’t want these vehicles on the road. They consider them unsafe. Whether that’s true or not is a whole different story. But some states want to have these cars on the road. They want to let people drive them. They want to let people use them in their everyday life. But if the state doesn’t allow you to register them, that’s a problem.

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