Here's a big Volvo that is here to remind you...
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....that the Piaggio Ape 50 is small!
This has been an announcement by your friendly neighbourhood small/basic vehicle supporter, RallyDarkstrike. -
Those rear tires look like they came right off a bicycle... that is tiny.
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@taylor-martin Tiny, yes, awesome, also yes! Check out Mathisox's custom Ape sometime! I've linked the video here before, but it's awesome enough to watch again (the stop-motion one, at least!)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP11D1eq9nTSyoBUHG3j64wXUdOHgFU_U
Google caption auto-translate will be your friend!
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Mazda-Go
Mazda T1500
Mazda T2000
Mazda K360
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@onlytwowheels said in Here's a big Volvo that is here to remind you...:
Mazda K360
How wonderfully non-American. I love that there is / was a culture that was compliant toward something like this being created.
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@onlytwowheels I do love those little Mazdas! That T2000 is huge too! Never saw one that long before! 0_o
I think the largest Ape that I know of was the TM, which is the one I'd like sometime, and they aren't exactly huge either...
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@flatisflat The world is full of hard working 3 wheeled trucks. I'm sure they are very capable machines and well suited for the job. Somehow, the work trike never really made much of an impact in the states.
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@rallydarkstrike
The Moto Guzzi trucks are awesome too.
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@onlytwowheels Indeed! I guess I find something a lil' extra special about how conservatively 'chic' that Mazda feels to be vs. strictly utilitarian.
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@rallydarkstrike
Piaggio can do big, too.
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@onlytwowheels said in Here's a big Volvo that is here to remind you...:
Mazda T1500
Why is that three wheeler so chonky? It looks like some hit it with a growth ray or something. Or maybe it just got very excited. . .
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@rallydarkstrike Duly noted.
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@whoistheleader It has a 4400 lb payload capacity.
https://petrolicious.com/articles/the-mazda-t2000-is-not-your-typical-workhorse
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@onlytwowheels Oh nice selection of pictures!
I forgot Cushman had a little trike at one point.....they did also do those three-wheeled parking meter maid trucklet things too!
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@cataphract Thanks for sending me down a rabbit hole of Piaggio aircraft that I had forgotten about last night
Also, coincidentally, your username is the name of my favorite battlemech from the Battletech/Mechwarrior franchise
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@onlytwowheels Yup, there they are!
Cool little things!
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@rallydarkstrike And very much despised.
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@onlytwowheels I know Mustie1 on Youtube did a series awhile back where he modified a little meter maid trike (I don't know if it was a Cushman or not...? His was like a late '80s or early '90s one) into something to carry his custom motorized bicycles
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJS6Md1UOg3xmZD5_Ue71rxj5n1QdWPG&app=desktop
It was a Cushman apparently!
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@rallydarkstrike I would drive it.
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@onlytwowheels I would too! Would make a fun little runabout for around town!
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@rallydarkstrike Would be great for my 4 mile commute to work
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