Smart to Release Pickup

[Hawkmoon]

Mahindra almost brought one over, and I've heard those same rumors about the F-150 for about 5 years now since they first announced plans for the 2009 model year. I'll believe it when I see it.

I saw a bunch of Mahindra pickups when visiting my wife's family in South America a year ago. They are NOT Ranger-size. They're nearly as big as an F-150, and about as ugly as warts on a toad.

[bedlamite]

Is that real?  It's kind of cute.

Works with busses too.

[Perd Hapley]

that could be a fun weekend escape vehicle, or a way to commute to within a cities bicycle range and then park for free on the edge

Weekend escape? Maybe for one person, with luggage in the passenger seat. With two people, luggage goes in the back, and you need a secure, weather-proof box in the back. Otherwise, you must wait for the weather to cooperate, and you either don't stop until you get to where you're staying the night, or you put your luggage inside the vehicle when you do.

I have played the latter game with my pitifully small, but much larger than the Smart pickup there, Tacoma. It is frustrating. I would kill severely beat someone with a large fish to get back into a full-size pickup.

[RoadKingLarry]

That's gheyer than two boys *expletive deleted*ing while watching a Twilight marathon.

FTFY

I'd be interested in a 1/2 ton pickup with a turbo-diesel, long bed, 2 door extended cab and 4X4, manual 5 speed transmission.

[Declaration Day]

FTFY

I'd be interested in a 1/2 ton pickup with a turbo-diesel, long bed, 2 door extended cab and 4X4, manual 5 speed transmission.

A 2500 HD (or 250 Super Duty as Ford calls it), in my opinion, is worth the extra few thousand dollars for the beefier frame, drivetrain, and monster brakes, even if you aren't sure you'll need them. 

[grampster]

Doctor friend of mine calls those teeny little cars ODV's.   Organ Donor Vehicles.

[HankB]

Are there youtube videos of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9RqljSJAQ&feature=related

Offset head-on at 40MPH with a Mercedes.

Notice the clown car doesn't just decelerate in the crash, it changes direction, goes airborne, and spins. (IIRC, they said it spun 540 degrees in the air.)

[Tallpine]

A 2500 HD (or 250 Super Duty as Ford calls it), in my opinion, is worth the extra few thousand dollars for the beefier frame, drivetrain, and monster brakes, even if you aren't sure you'll need them. 

It ain't the purchase price - it's the $4/gal diesel, or whatever it gets up to by next year or the year after. :(

I'd still like a pickup - even a half ton - that could get 30-40 mpg. 

[seeker_two]

I'd get one to put in back of my truck....that way, instead of a spare tire, I'd have a spare vehicle to get me down the road....

[lupinus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9RqljSJAQ&feature=related

Offset head-on at 40MPH with a Mercedes.

Notice the clown car doesn't just decelerate in the crash, it changes direction, goes airborne, and spins. (IIRC, they said it spun 540 degrees in the air.)

The emblem around 1:30 was a nice touch

[Ben]

It ain't the purchase price - it's the $4/gal diesel, or whatever it gets up to by next year or the year after. :(

I'd still like a pickup - even a half ton - that could get 30-40 mpg. 

$4/gal diesel partially due to the newer "clean burning" fuel formulation + DPFs or urea filters so your truck can run on the clean diesel = lower MPG.

Hooray for EPA.

[zxcvbob]

$4/gal diesel partially due to the newer "clean burning" fuel formulation + DPFs or urea filters so your truck can run on the clean diesel = lower MPG.

Hooray for EPA.

*expletive deleted*ck the EPA

[sumpnz]

I want a full-sized half ton pickup with a supercharged 3 liter diesel engine.  I don't think a normally-aspirated 3.5 to 3.8 liter would be strong enough, but I could be mistaken.  It needs to be able to haul a yard of gravel or load of firewood, or pull a small boat or trailer, or cruise 75 mph down the highway.  Doesn't need to be able to do all those things at the same time.

I don't follow diesels all that closely.  That said, I have not heard of a diesel, regardless of [on-highway legal]application, that was made in the last 20 years that wasn't turbocharged.

[Boomhauer]

I don't follow diesels all that closely.  That said, I have not heard of a diesel, regardless of application, that was made in the last 20 years that wasn't turbocharged.

Smaller diesels aren't always turbocharged. The Yanmar 3 cyl in my JD 955 is normally aspirated.

[RoadKingLarry]

I don't follow diesels all that closely.  That said, I have not heard of a diesel, regardless of application, that was made in the last 20 years that wasn't turbocharged.

This one isn't, 2010 Kioti CK20S