RE: There's An Emerging Market for Very Small Trucks
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RE: There's An Emerging Market for Very Small Trucks - 1/29/2008 9:47:03 AM
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vipersforsale
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there has always been a market for small fuel efficient trucks, but somewhere down the line all the manus have gone to the SUVs and "power" trucks. Fact is back when the s-10 and the nissan hardbody and mini max and other small trucks were out you saw alot more companies using them for work vehicles. Every small business in town that needed the bed of a truck but the efficiency of a small car had them. Pool companies, couriers, coca-cola, you name it, the list goes on, they all had little trucks for running around in. Now most of those comapnies have been forced to go with suv's, small 5 door hatchbacks or the mid-sized pickups of today... which dont touch the gas mileage that the older compact trucks got. They all need to go back to an S-10 sized truck with a economical 4 banger, yeh its got no power but who cares, they were cheap, reliable and damn good little trucks.
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RE: There's An Emerging Market for Very Small Trucks - 1/29/2008 7:02:53 PM
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mantisman51
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One last thing, the reason I called them neat is the concept. Dodge had the Rampage (and they are almost the same size) and they got 25-30 mpg then. If Dodge can produce another Rampage, which most small truck buyers would find adequate, then folks like me (98 Ram 1500 QC) can continue to buy what we need by Chrysler meeting the Cafe standard for trucks. Can you visualize a 2010 Rampage built on the caliber platform, getting 30-35 mpg and how much that would help Chryco beat cafe?
p.s. They need to get the Dakota back down to the size of the original-and cut the price.
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RE: There's An Emerging Market for Very Small Trucks - 2/4/2008 12:41:31 PM
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ViperGTS
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The power of the food chain explains it all
Tacoma>Dakota
then there's that marketing problem
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RE: There's An Emerging Market for Very Small Trucks - 2/4/2008 2:17:46 PM
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grungerockjeeper
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One final thought, the Dakota is tanking because they are over-priced. Yes, they can do more than most pickups in the midsize category, but when the Tucson Dodge dealer is advertizing 2008
1500 4 door with the base 8 cylinder and fairly nicely equipped (if you like manual shiftng like me) for $1000 less than the EXACTLY same equipped Dakota, you know Dodge has really screwed up the formula.
I do love my Dakota, but you nailed that dead on. I have said before I think they should produce the wrangler pickup / JT / Gladiator.... offer a 4 and 6 cylinder plus the diesel, and then offer a dodge version. It wouldn't cost them much since the chassis is already there in the Wrangler unlimited. Jeep didn't produce it the first time because they thought it would compete too much with Dakota, but if it had its own Dakota version that wouldn't be a problem...
The JT is a no-brainer. And a dodge version using Nitro sheetmetal would be real similar to that M-80. Offer the v-6, a turbodiesel and the flex fuel 4.7 and you'd have it nailed down.
And someone mentioned a rampage revival. Id like to see that myself, those were pretty neat little cars. The caliber's sheetmetal would play to that REAL well and it already has the awd option which would likely be a necessary option. That toyota thing was cool but a caliber based version would be even better. Think how cool an SRT-4 version would be!
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