OT: Hey! It's A Brand New DeSoto Truck!

[Tuckerfan]

Looks like they're building them in Turkey. I'm guessing from the url that it's a Chrysler product, but why the make survives there and not the US is beyond me.

[mattc]

looks like good competition for the ford superduty lol

Matt in AK

[shaque]

WOW! I want one 3.5 ton??? Now that's what a truck should look like IMO
Jim

[mattc]

probably gross weight not what it will haul, that would bring capicity down to about 500 lbs

[egpace]

Hope the rating in the "Power" column, 90 ps, isn't refering to how many passengers it's powerful enough to haul!

[jburstein]

ps in german stands for horsepower (Pferdenstarke). I don't know if the turks use it too, but I kinda guess that's what it is.

-Justin

[pgmrdan]

I like the look of that truck. It's trying to look like a truck. Not a truck with a frou-frou look.

[mattc]

that is about 1/2 the horsepower of my snowmachine the truck should really haul going up hills

[JIMofalltrades031]

Looks like a neat little truck. 16 inch wheels and good ground clearance, Dana 44 and 66 spicer axles, and a 850 pound payload, little 4 cyl diesel should get pretty good mileage. Now if we turbo the motor and put some big meats on those axles....

[wierdscience]

Oh great,Tribant made a pickup

[Spin Doctor]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tuckerfan:
Looks like they're building them in Turkey. I'm guessing from the url that it's a Chrysler product, but why the make survives there and not the US is beyond me.</font>

I kind of doubt they are a DaimlerChrysler product, they are fait too good looking

[JS]

Hey, if it's cheap and gets good fuel economy and if parts are easy to obtain. Why not buy one? We have a guy in town who drives a dihautsu (a division of toyota) and it's a real neat little truck. It gets very good fuel mileage. never mind the fact it's the same size of a compact. Has anyone ever thought of what would happen to the US market if it had access to every manufacture?

[Tuckerfan]

Actually, it looks like they are a DaimlerChrysler product.