I wish Toyota, Nissan or Isuzu (the maker of Duramax motors) would start building heavy-duty trucks. Gas or diesel, the “Big 3” need some stuff competition in that market.

Nissan is producing a 3/4 ton

Ehh not really. It’s a flop. Doesn’t compete with 1/2 tons or 3/4 tons.
http://www.dieselhub.com/compare/nissan-titan-xd-category.html

Have yet to buy new. Those Tundras do hold their value and thus keeping them out of my range. I'm sure they're worth every penny though. My buddy bought one new 10 years ago and workswork it hard and still it seems like a new truck.

I had an Izuzu SUV in the 90s that was just unstoppable.

Interesting. Got any credible references off hand?

Using it to build quality trucks?

im thinking my next pickup needs to be one without sensors and computers so I can do all my own maintenance. one coil, one distributer, one plug per cylinder. A manual transmission. I don't need or want abs brakes or air bags. I don't need or want fuel injection or a catalytic converter. a mechanical fuel pump on the side of the block will be just fine. looking at new ones they are loaded with useless electronic junk ill never use. starting with a little tv screen and voice commands for cell phone and radio. I just want one I can chain up and crawl back into my coyote sets. most of the time simple is best. antique tags are cheaper anyway.

really enjoying my global warming today. 15 degrees. read where the Carolinas are about to get some big snow.

lets not forget Chrysler. Carter put together and Reagan bailed out Chrysler. Bailing out chevy was no different than that or bailing out the banks. You only go bankrupt now if your a small business.

I don't think anybody makes a simple go where you need to, 300 h.p. pickup that will pull a trailer, no carpet no electric windows or regular keyed pickup. I must be the only man in America who doesn't want to be forced to pay for all that useless fooforraw

You ain't the only man in America that doesn't want all that extra crap. But, like you said, nobody builds a regular truck anymore. The government won't let them!

Been driving GM stuff my whole life, have a driveway full now. Never had any real problems with any of them, put 313000 on a trailblazer.

We should have never bailed them out, just let them fail or figure it out for themselves. Apparently they learned nothing from that bailout and are working themselves back into that same position.

I will never own a toyota.

Its pretty easy to verify for yourself that americans were starved beaten and other wise tortured by the japanese in WWII. Pretty easy to verify they were slaves used by japanese manufacturers. no clue why someone is ambitious enough to ask someone for a link but not ambitious enough to type their question into a search engine

Since we are bringing up history of people who were oppressed we may as well find a way to drag slavery and genocide of the Indians up. We all should know the Japanese did some pretty bad things in history but they are hardly unique in that.

My son sold Chevies for a while, employee discount the salesperson gets 150$ instead of 300$ per truck, people jumped on special, then next two months he had very few sales, not enough to pay bills, he quit

Sending it back to their country to boost the economy, more rice fields and children working in factories instead of going to school like the children do here in the states..

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Interesting that GM and Toyota V8's have the same firing order.