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From: turby on 25 Nov 2009 21:30 On Nov 25, 10:54 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > turby <keens...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 25, 7:07 am, "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > ... > > > I don't know much about US cars, actually, so educate me. What marques > > > and models are worth buying, and why? Let's leave aside the gas- > > > guzzling trucks, niche market musclecars (I'd love a modern Mustang or > > > 'Vette) and SUVs and concentrate on mainstream cars. > > > But since trucks are the biggest sellers, you can't very well exclude > > them and have a meaningful response. > > Personally, I have no use for sedans. I almost never need to carry > > more than 3 people in my truck, but it is far more useful to carry any > > and all loads bigger than my motorcycle will carry. > > > It always baffled me why foreign manufacturers (other than Toyota) > > refused to enter the pickup truck market. > > Does't Nissan do trucks? Or Mitsubishi? They're sold over here. > > -- > BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple > Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! > Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. > chateau dot murray at idnet dot com Ah, you're right. (I haven't been in the market for one for 15 years. My '94 Dodge Ram only has 50,000 miles on it.) Further research shows that Honda finally entered the market in '06, and Volkswagen will build a pickup in '10, but it won't be coming to the US. Still, I think it's a fair comparison to the argument that American makers don't compete well overseas. The Ford F150 has been America's best-selling vehicle for 20 years, and this year the top 3 are all pickups.
From: Sean_Q_ on 25 Nov 2009 21:59 S'mee wrote: > ....you commies FAILED. A Commie who quotes Adolph Hitler in his SIG? SQ
From: Scott on 25 Nov 2009 22:10 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:46:01 -0800 (PST), in rec.motorcycles, turby <keensurf(a)hotmail.com> wrote: (2nd try, forgot to strip filtering headers for threading...duh...) >On Nov 25, 7:07=A0am, "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> ... >> I don't know much about US cars, actually, so educate me. What marques >> and models are worth buying, and why? Let's leave aside the gas- >> guzzling trucks, niche market musclecars (I'd love a modern Mustang or >> 'Vette) and SUVs and concentrate on mainstream cars. > >But since trucks are the biggest sellers, you can't very well exclude >them and have a meaningful response. >Personally, I have no use for sedans. I almost never need to carry >more than 3 people in my truck, but it is far more useful to carry any >and all loads bigger than my motorcycle will carry. > >It always baffled me why foreign manufacturers (other than Toyota) >refused to enter the pickup truck market. Mazda B series, Nissan Titan, Toyota Tundra and Tacoma, Nissan Titan and Frontier, Honda Ridgeline, and that's just what Wikipedia knows, not including Japanese-made trucks sold under US brands. And I wouldn't call a single one of them a "truck". They sort of look like trucks, but if you tried to load one like I load my pickup truck, you'd just break the frame and pop the tires. So that's my two cents - there isn't a single truck made by any non-US manufacturer that would meet my needs as a pickup truck owner. I admit you could probably adapt a commercial truck, but that costs extra and you'd still have a commercial truck, not something made with passengers in mind. -- '73 CB450K '82 CB900F (x2) '04 FSC600 (SWMBO)
From: Vito on 25 Nov 2009 23:27 "sleazy" <none(a)nil.net> wrote | Sample of Detroit offerings: | http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/1472797620.html I can hear the | gears whirling from Blightly all the way over here. | -- Glad to see it BUT it is limited production and even used costs about twice as much as a late 60s equivalent even in inflated dollars.
From: Chuck Rhode on 26 Nov 2009 00:20
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:05:23 -0800, TOG(a)Toil wrote: > Best quality of any car I've run is the present Subaru Legacy. Quite > phenomenal. I'm driving a '94 I bought out of a junkyard last fall. -- ... Be Seeing You, ... Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA ... Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX ... 42° — Wind NW 3 mph — Sky overcast. Light rain; mist. |