Useful Add-On to your Tomy/Thomas Layout?

Yes, they all stubby like that, you do get some that are more hotwheels like, but they are not real Choro'Q cars. They are like the shorty's very expensive here in the west as they are not sold outside Japan as far as I know. But from a certain site we know they can be had at a reasonable cost.

Personally I quite like the 'stubby' look as it gives them a litte cartoon'ish appearance that works with the Tomy trains and the little people

I'd get one on the Takara flat wagons, in a troublesome truck you may get two - I'll have to try, or on one of the Tomy flat wagons - you know the type with the half size containers, you'd get two I reckon