Here's a big Volvo that is here to remind you...

[RallyDarkstrike]

....that the Piaggio Ape 50 is small!


This has been an announcement by your friendly neighbourhood small/basic vehicle supporter, RallyDarkstrike.

[Taylor Martin]

Those rear tires look like they came right off a bicycle... that is tiny.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@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!

[onlytwowheels]

Mazda-Go

Mazda T1500

Mazda T2000

Mazda K360

[flatisflat]

@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.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@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...

[onlytwowheels]

@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.

[onlytwowheels]

@rallydarkstrike
The Moto Guzzi trucks are awesome too.

[flatisflat]

@onlytwowheels Indeed! I guess I find something a lil' extra special about how conservatively 'chic' that Mazda feels to be vs. strictly utilitarian.

[A Former User]

@rallydarkstrike Piaggio can do big, too.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@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. . .

[Shop-Teacher]

@rallydarkstrike Duly noted.

[onlytwowheels]

@whoistheleader It has a 4400 lb payload capacity.

https://petrolicious.com/articles/the-mazda-t2000-is-not-your-typical-workhorse

[RallyDarkstrike]

@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!

[RallyDarkstrike]

@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

[onlytwowheels]

@rallydarkstrike

[RallyDarkstrike]

@onlytwowheels Yup, there they are! Cool little things!

[onlytwowheels]

@rallydarkstrike And very much despised.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@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!

[onlytwowheels]

@rallydarkstrike I would drive it.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@onlytwowheels I would too! Would make a fun little runabout for around town!

[onlytwowheels]

@rallydarkstrike Would be great for my 4 mile commute to work