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Detroit, 8:25 PM
Tue Nov 24
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The Chicken Tax did a good job of keeping them from getting a start in the market on this coast. As I recall, it was not until they started "making" them in the U.S. that you saw many of them on the road.
11/21/09
Go purchase this vehicle then have all engineers and designers examine it for weeks. No, months. As long as it takes for them to realize this is a proper work truck.
Note the lack of luxury car features from the time it was built. You get gauges, a few knobs, lights, and a radio.
Thank you.
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11/22/09
BTW, the Third Punic War was a long time ago, Dude. Time to move on.
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Looks like that Datsun has a few hundred thousand more miles left in it. A long afternoon's work, and you're back on the road.
Murilee, I hope you grabbed the badges...
11/07/09
Alas, group think has thus far prevailed. Bigger is supposedly always better.
Idiots. #1977
11/08/09
You raise a good point, but Mistubishi or Suzuki would need to build a small pickup in North America to be viable, not import it from overseas. There has been a 25% tariff on imported pickup trucks since 1963. The tariff was retribution for Europe tripling the tariff on chicken imported from the US - hence the name "chicken tax". Mahindra is attempting to get around the tax before selling their small pickup in the US. #1977
11/07/09
It was just fine as a work truck, and with C4 seats, was fairly comfy for long trips, too.
"Fairly" is a relative term. I'm not about to trade either the beater E320 or my wife's RX300 for one if I need to road-trip. #1977
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It would allow me to fill the bed for home improvement projects, pull a decent-sized pop-camper and still get better fuel economy than any other truck.
The Mahindra is still too big, but it may have to do. Jury is still out. #1977
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many of the automotive supercars that most of us would give our left nuts for get absolutly horse dung efficiency compaired to most 1500-2500 trucks out there... yet I never hear the same complaints about sports cars when someone sees a loan person driving one around
"Why would someone need that ferrari 430 Scuderia?"
the ferrari 430 Scuderia gets 11-16mpg after all... where as a 2009 Hemi ram gets 13-19mpg.
If some dude wants to buy a giant truck/suv that gets 10 city and 15 highway and use it to commute back and fourth to a desk job... who are any of us to bitch about it when most of us lust over less efficnet and less useful automobiles.
that dude with the giant truck... a vehicle that obviously makes that person happy... is doing it with twenty percent better mielage then the guy in the Lamborghini Murcielago (8/13). but no one cares about the lambo do they?
They see one and say "I'd kill for one" as the guy in the truck behind him gets people flicking him off and posting photos of it on bitter hippy websites (refering to FUH2.com )
Bottom line here.
If someone's choice in a vehicle makes them happy... whether it be a Murcielago or a Hummer H2... Big Deal.
Motortrend has a E92 M3 right now that is averaging 16mpg. Thats what I average in my 01 Suburban.
but guess which one gets complaints.
I'm just not a fan of Hypocrisy or bitterness about someone's choice in a vehicle that makes them happy.
When there is a website out there where bitter angery people post images of them flicking off high end euro sports cars or Gibson Custom Citations because of how wasteful they are... some of the hypocrisy will be gone, but we'll just have more bitter people who have their noese where they shouldn't be. in other people's busness.
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however when it comes to capatalism, if you don't buy it... they will stop making it. which the current non-existance of the 1977 Datsun King Cab (and its 11.3 Cubic Feet Of Cab Space!) something tells me it's not around for a reason. #1977
11/07/09
But it's Caterpillar yellow, and gone back to live in the wilds of Maine. A fair trade all around. #internationalharvester
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Find a junk yard civic sedan and add 3 feet of the second rear passenger area to the middle of your hatchback and slap the trunk bed on after the rear wheels.
Trust me, it's a VERY GOOD idea and I think the commentariat would agree.
11/07/09
Everything's just gotten out of hand in terms of scale to the point where they're difficult to use for actual work. #1977
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Kings ain't what they used to be. #1977
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They did rust though - mom made the mistake of sideswiping a fence with ours and the rust on the damage was instant - plus we had an exhaust manifold rust off. #1977