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re: Why can't we get a compact, 4 cylinder diesel pickup here in the US?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:52 am to WoWyHi
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:52 am to WoWyHi
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Is this something Americans would buy?
No. Why diesel? You're not going to be towing anything with a 4 so why the need for diesel.
Compact trucks sold like hotcakes to latino dry wall finishers and white trash framers and roofers back in the housing boom of the 80's here in FL. Don't see why they wouldn't sell now. Mitsubishi Raider was the last of the true construction worker personal pickups. Legit firms use full size but day laborers are all about the Mazda B2000 all gas all the time.
You won't be winning any dick swinging contests with 250's rolling coal but you can do some projects around the house easier than if you had an SUV.
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Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:03 am to MojoGuyPan
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Mitsubishi Raider was the last of the true construction worker personal pickups.
I think it was called the Mitsubishi Mighty Max back then.
The problem with those Japanese compacts from the 1980s and 1990s were not that they weren’t reliable. They were. They were also prone to rusting out very easily. That reputation ruined them in the midwestern and northern states where roads are salted in the winter.
This post was edited on 1/19/19 at 9:14 am
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