I expect quickly. This will be popular. People think they want trucks and then realize all of their stuff gets wet and dirty.
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Hit or Flop? Ford Maverick
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Omg, that's a really ugly subaru Baja rip off lmaoLol, is Chevy going to respond with this?
COULD THE NEXT-GEN CHEVROLET MONTANA SMALL TRUCK COME TO AMERICA?
With the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz models coming to market, GM could enter the small truck game with their Chevrolet Montana.www.musclecarsandtrucks.com
The Ford Maverick peaked around 1970....
IMO pick-up trucks have become gigantic for no good reason other than the other brands kept biggie sizing them, vicious marketing circle. I really welcome the idea of a useful pickup that is not big just to be big.
IMO pick-up trucks have become gigantic for no good reason other than the other brands kept biggie sizing them, vicious marketing circle. I really welcome the idea of a useful pickup that is not big just to be big.
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Hyundai Santa Cruz for me
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Ford reliability is no good
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Partly unintended consequence of stupid emissions regs (plan area). Height is likely a combination of large plan area, preferred high seating position and looking tough.
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Same with cars. Gigantic
DownUnder
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Father in law bought a new hyundai sonata 8 years ago. At exactly the 5yr mark EVERYTHING started falling apart and not working. Was a great car and value for money when he bought it but the long term reliability left much to be desired.Hyundai Santa Cruz for me
Ford reliability is no good2024 Hyundai SANTA CRUZ | Sport Adventure Vehicle
Discover the 2024 Santa Cruz, a Sport Adventure Vehicle that combines the comfort of an SUV with the open utility of a truck bed. Build one at Hyundai USA!
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The turbo motors can be fishy too
But go look at some of the recalls for the 2021 f150. YiKES
I wouldn’t buy a first year model of anything. Overall I haven’t had issue with Fords in my experience.
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Lol, is Chevy going to respond with this?
COULD THE NEXT-GEN CHEVROLET MONTANA SMALL TRUCK COME TO AMERICA?
With the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz models coming to market, GM could enter the small truck game with their Chevrolet Montana.
I work in the industry on the tooling / automation side, for suppliers (which means I end up finding out a little bit about everything). A good customer of mine is building major components for Ranger/Bronco.
The 2.5 non-turbo 4 cylinder is the same engine used in the current Escape hybrid. It's the exact same powertrain. That version of that engine is set up for efficiency rather than power ... the hybrid system provides extra acceleration when needed. It's more efficient than the 2.3 Ecoboost (Ranger).
Ford's hybrid system is extremely similar to Toyota's, and Ford has been using them for a while. My only experience with it was in a Ford Fusion Hybrid rental car, and I thought it was pretty good.
As for the Chevrolet Montana (sorry, tried to multi-quote, can't figure out where I went wrong) ... Quite a few of these car-based small trucks are already in production for Mexico and South America. The Chevy is rather ugly, but I rather like the Ram 700 a.k.a. Fiat Strada ... The Ram 700 Is a Cool Mexican-Market Compact Pickup That's Smaller Than the Original Dakota
I like the short cab with 5.5 foot bed for those that want a truck not a family mall crawler. My brothers stupid new huge F150 has the same size bed (in his case four door cab so a 6.5' box would have made it ridiculously large).
This is what I want to see…
Mad Mike
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I’m with you.
Around 2010 I vowed to make my car decision based on what I use the vehicle for 95% of the time. Before that it was based on what I needed 5% of the time. For me that men’s I’ll never again have any Jag, Denali XL, or anything with a hemi.
I thought it might be embarrassing to pull up in a $20k Chevy Cruze when my buddies were all driving $100k cars. Turns out it’s not that bad! In fact a couple have followed my lead.
Back to Maverick. Nice truck, name doesn’t scream quality if you’re old enough to have driven or owned an original. If the e150 doesn’t come thru, I like this as an option that meets my 95 rule.
Mad Mike
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Me too, we get insight as we make stuff that fixtures dunnage carts that feed the lines. I’m currently most excited with GM and Jeep.
As for Fiat stuff, since WWII they have led the world in automotive depreciation - nothing suggest a shift from style to quality, for this market (winter, big miles) a Fiat will remain a Fiat.
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I cant quite tell if that is some Holden or Chevy SS variant..!
Holden Commodore Ute....gorgeous to me. Loved them since the first time I laid eyes on them in Australia
The Holden Ute was a great vehicle. The last generation (pictured above) looked really good in 2-door form. There was an extended-cab 4-door version, but the proportions are really strange.
Key word, "was". With GM and Ford exiting vehicle manufacturing in Australia, the Australian utes are done. They buy pickup trucks now - although generally what we would consider mid-size. Our full-size models aren't sold there. Rangers are common, but theirs would be coming from the assembly plant in Thailand.
Key word, "was". With GM and Ford exiting vehicle manufacturing in Australia, the Australian utes are done. They buy pickup trucks now - although generally what we would consider mid-size. Our full-size models aren't sold there. Rangers are common, but theirs would be coming from the assembly plant in Thailand.
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I wish they brought the Chevy SS to Canada
I wish they brought the Chevy SS to Canada
European mass-market brands all got a bad reputation here ... even VW, which is well-regarded in Europe. Just imagine what would happen if Citroen or Renault were to attempt to sell something under those brand names here. The Fiat brand name isn't likely to survive much longer in North America - but they're huge in South America.
YES, the last time a Citroen or Renault was sold under their own name in North America, was before the auto industry in general had figured out corrosion protection. Japanese cars back then (1980s) rusted just as badly, but somehow they got away with it.
European roads are filled with Renaults, Citroens, Fiats, VWs and all their cousins (Seat, Skoda) as well as European Ford and GM (Opel, Vauxhall), and they seem to do okay with them ... and Honda (well-regarded here) have a hard time surviving in Europe! Seems that Australians don't buy Honda cars, either. Honda are considered to be pensioners' cars in the UK.
Modern manufacturing processes have converged in many ways. Everyone builds stuff in more-or-less the same ways using similar materials nowadays, with parts and subassemblies bought in from the same core groups of suppliers for each type of product. Buy whatever suits your needs.
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