NOBODY(except alt. lifestyle sugar daddies in miami beach) would buy it if
it looked like the M80.
Patrick Delgado
> From: ''Granpa'' Silver89 <SilverEightynine@aol.com>
> Organization: Twisted Bits Internet Services
> Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 18:12:43 -0600
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: Dakota Canceled - Buzz Watch Reliable
>
>
> While I agree with you about the tech points - that a replacement/next gen
> truck should be mechanically superior... I will not budge. I won't buy it if
> its not a Dakota and if it looks anything like the M-80.
>
>
> Patrick Delgado wrote:
>
>> If the next pickup has a V8, it will trash the gen III. It's supposed to be
>> lighter, same wheelbase and length but less overhang. This means they'll
>> push the front wheels out farther ahead of the engine. I'll give odds it
>> will have some composite body parts and a hydroformed frame. All of this
>> means a better balanced, better handling truck. Will it haul? Depends on the
>> engine. That's what I worry about. If they put the 4.7(HO?!?!) in it and
>> keep Dak/Ram looks, they could call it Pacer/Pinto/Chevette I'd still buy
>> it.
>> Patrick Delgado
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