Re: Hot Asian Cars, Designed In Detroit

DeserTBoB · 2006-10-16T18:35:47+00:00

Sounds like paid-for spin from Toyota Motor to me. The sales figuresof the "old" Tundra are dismal, Nissan's Frontier even worse, andHonda's Ridgeline are non-existant. When Toyota started slapping "1Ton" stickers on the back of their minitrucks in the '90s and theframes started breaking in half, they got a VERY bad reputation amongbig truck buyers, and that's likely to hang around for quite awhile,much like the Big 3 have been having big trouble trying to shake theirreputation for crappy cars. Like the heavy equipment market that theytried to take over in the '90s, Japan Inc. will only get so muchincursion into the Big 3's truck market, for a variety of reasons.Sloppy designs (a la Chevy) and bad reliability could change that overtime, however.

Oct 16, 2006 40 Replies

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DeserTBoB 19 years ago

Duh...these are MINE trucks, not highway trucks.

Correct about Japanese and US ½ ton "trucks," which aren't. For decades, a ½ ton Ford, Chevrolet or Chrysler pickup was basically a station wagon drive train in a truck body. When you got up to ¾ ton, then things started getting more serious.

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