jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
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>>The Indians are coming.
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>>http://www.pickuptruck.com/html/news/mahindra/dieselhybridandmore.html
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>>Sounds like they're taking it more upscale. When I first heard about
>>this, it was supposedly going to be the cheapest truck available.
>>Apparently they've decided to add more features and price, should be
>>interesting to see what this does to the market.
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> Hey, that's pretty cool! I hope it does well and spurs the other
> manufacturers to build compact/mid size diesel pickups. Personally, I
> think they are making a mistake with the whole diesel hybrid version
> though; just stick with the diesel. In order to make a diesel hybrid
> get better gas mileage than the straight diesel, compromises will need
> to be made (less weight, and/or smaller engine, etc.) which will
> result in less capability and I'm not sure the average truck buyer is
> going to go for the resulting product, especially at the additional
> cost.
>
There will never be a diesel in a dakota until diesel is $10 per gallon
and nobody is using them in anything, *THEN* they will offer a 7 liter
diesel as a $30k option, but only on a factory lowered short bed sport
truck...
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