My guess is that with a full load in the bed a fwd pickup probably
wouldn't get great traction. IMHO!
DT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W. Jack Hilton III [SMTP:hemi@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 9:54 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: '99 model questions
>
> I would think that the bulk of the people buying trucks , especially
> for
> work trucks , would tend to shy away from a totally new type of setup
> like
> that as well .
>
> Not only the people buying them for work , but just as 90% of people
> that
> buy an SUV demand 4WD and NEVER take it off the pavement , people are
> just
> not gonna buy a FWD truck.....I know I wouldn't !
>
>
> At 10:36 AM 6/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >GM experimented with FWD pickups? When?
> >
> >> If you remember the little Dodge front wheel drive pickups they
> made in
> >> about '85 or so .
> >
> > Oh yeah, I had completely forgotten about those. The Plymouth
> Arrow and
> >Dodge Rampage, I do believe. They were pretty goofy looking IMO, but
> I
> >didn't know they were FWD. Stands to reason if they were based on
> the
> >Charger, though.
> >
> > I suppose I can understand significant FWD driveline stress and
> complication
> >to some extent, but I've got to believe that these are solveable
> problems.
> >But maybe the market wouldn't bear the cost of a super-heavy-duty FWD
> >transaxle, etc.
> >
> > Thanks for the info,
> >
> > Ron
> >
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