[Dukkha]

Where I live, this is a pretty common alternative to trucks.:



400 gallons of water might be pushing it but you'd be amazed at what these can move. I've got a non-sidecar version which gets 80 or 90 mpg.

[doomlover666]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'W')hy not something like this modern and attractive model from Japan with a 1.3L 4 cylinder.

But no. Ford keeps trying to stuff the round peg into the square hole.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('doomlover666', 'N')on sequitur nonsense, blah blah blah

[doomlover666]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('doomlover666', 'N')on sequitur nonsense, blah blah blah

[doomlover666]

Oh by the way loki the european ford festiva averages 65 miles per gallion, and if I am correct the toyota prius get's about 45. yeah lick ba*ls.

[Loki]

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[Novus]

Actually the big 3 American auto engineers did try to produce fuel efficient pickup trucks but management killed the idea long ago.

[retiredguy]

Just for the record, there is a four cylinder Tacoma.

Mine gets over 30 mpg with a full load of firewood.

I think that is comparable or better than its American counterparts.

[idiom]

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Why not something like this modern and attractive model from Japan with a 1.3L 4 cylinder.

But no. Ford keeps trying to stuff the round peg into the square hole.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TreeFarmer', 'I')'m suprised that none of the car companies have at least shown a concept vehicle that is a mix of truck and car. Something like the old El Camino yet with a big enough bed to hold 4x8 building materials.

[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TreeFarmer', 'I')'m suprised that none of the car companies have at least shown a concept vehicle that is a mix of truck and car. Something like the old El Camino yet with a big enough bed to hold 4x8 building materials.

[doomlover666]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('retiredguy', 'J')ust for the record, there is a four cylinder Tacoma.

Mine gets over 30 mpg with a full load of firewood.

I think that is comparable or better than its American counterparts.

[Tanada]

While discussing the fact that the 2009 F-150 does not offer the 6 option for the engine a co-worker of mine pointed out that he though they were saving all the 6 engines for the reintroduction of the F-100 next year.

the blurb I found HERE basically says the same thing and may be where my Co-worker found the information a few months ago.

It is now unknown if the F-100 will go into production but given its comonality with the F-150 putting it into production is not a difficult decision to implement, you switch the engine and lighten the body and so on and so forth as much as practicle and tada its an F-100 instead of an F-150. This is basically the reverse of what they do building the F-250, which is just a beefed up version of the F-150 and often gets built in the same plants.

[PrairieMule]

When I was in Thailand, half the trucks on the road were Mitsubishi Tritons used as Baht taxis.


These trucks have big 4cyl and are workhorses carring up to a dozen people in the back. I wish it would come to America.

[Dont_Panic]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'W')hen I was in Thailand, half the trucks on the road were Mitsubishi Tritons used as Baht taxis.


These trucks have big 4cyl and are workhorses carring up to a dozen people in the back. I wish it would come to America.

[Pablo2079]

Ford still makes the Ranger (Small Pickup) which gets the best MPG of any pickup sold in the US today.

I believe I read somewhere that Ford is working on a new 6 cylinder that's turbo charged (twin turbos) that will be offered in the pickups in the near future. Not as much torque as an 8, but just as much HP. Most people don't even use their trucks like a truck though...

It's true that a lot of these manufacturing decisions were made before $80 oil. It will be interesting to see which car companies survive in the near future and what they'll be selling.

[mgibbons19]

I wish they'd bring back the small trucks like the toyotas and suzukis of the 80s. it makes me a little sad that the toyota pickup has morphed into goliath (which is probably smart business in the US), and the Tacoma is now almost a full size thing.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Ford sees sharp drop in U.S. sales

By Kevin Krolicki
Reuters
Jan 3, 2008

DEARBORN, Mich (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) expects industry-wide December U.S. auto sales to drop by some 35 percent from a year earlier with no sign of a turnaround in the first quarter of this year.

Ford, the No. 2 U.S. automaker, expects that full-year sales of light vehicles in the world's largest market will drop to near 13.2 million for 2008, down from near 16.2 million in 2007, Ford's chief sales analyst George Pipas said on Friday.

The only other time the U.S. auto industry has seen a similar 3-million unit plunge in sales over the course of a single year was during 1974 in the wake of the first oil shock, Pipas told reporters.

... snip ...

[Ayoob]

Probably in the next two months. Fuel economy be damned, I'm planning for 8MPG, if not 6. Dual fuel tanks, holding 40 gallons or more of gasoline. Cheesy racing stripes, and jacked up if I can make that happen.

With any luck, the 60" plasma is on the way in March or April. I like the products of industrial civilization!

[mos6507]

Don't do it, man.