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Team Loco wrote:Every single day some jackass in a navara bdrives like an muffler bearing on the highway. Good truck but to me its a weapon in the hands of immature trinis
SmokeyGTi wrote:the wingle 6 looking nice..
matthewmazda wrote:Team Loco wrote:Every single day some jackass in a navara bdrives like an muffler bearing on the highway. Good truck but to me its a weapon in the hands of immature trinis
saw one passin tru st helena today front half burn down, any
info on this fellers ?
rusty_turbo wrote:That wasn't any accident..
rusty_turbo wrote:Van was set ablaze in the owner's garage at their house.
acesinghit wrote:Everyone pretty much made a lot of sense in this thread. All automobile manufacturers came a long way in the design and manufacture of vehicle in this case pickup trucks.
Truth is no one can beat the Americans especially when it comes to Trucks (as they call them up there vs pickups for us down here). The F150, RAM, Sierra/Silverado are the best. The Tundra is an excellent Japanese response made for the NA market. The Nissan Titan did well but never scored or made any impact worth noticing.
Then we have the Thailand made pickups for our market. We all pretty much agree that vehicles in TT are over-priced due to our archaic laws but that is for another discussion. Diesel fuel here is cheap and of little international quality. I personally don't see the sense in paying $200 - $300k TTD in a vehicle from its design was made to be a commercial method of transportation.
You could put big alloy rims, fake leather seats, fake wood trim, DVD players, add all sorts of power features and label it the luxury 4x4 model and price it at $275k and it'll sell like hot hops but I still won't be fooled. People don't care that the tray is really an open box with these silly inside hooks good for some boxes purchased from PriceSmart and you still have to hire transportation if you buy galvanize, steel or lumber. Even when it comes to crash safety a ladder frame chassis will never give you the ride quality, handling dynamics and overall efficiency as a unibody.
The luxury I can get from a $168k - $220k compact sedan far surpasses that of any pickup, but let's just say I am in the market for a pickup and of course it is highly impractical to import an American made LHD V8 powered monster, what locally can really satisfy that need?
The list:
Toyota Hilux
Nissan Navara
Mitsubishi L200 Sportero
Mazda BT-50
Ford Ranger
Isuzu D-Max
Chevrolet Colorado
Ssang Yong Actyon Sports
Great Wall Wingle 5
Mahindra Pik Up
Gonow Troy
The Hilux has been selling here since 2005 ie. 9 years now so we pretty much have a great deal of experience with it. The Navara has been here since 2007 ie. 7 years and it turned out to be very popular. The Sportero not so popular but here long enough since 2006 ie. 8 years. The BT-50 and Ranger twins only 3 years as we got them in 2011 and the D-Max and Colorado in 2013 only a year now. The Actyon came here since what 07-08 and it never really scored and the Wingle surprisingly got some market share due to good pricing, stock availability and marketing. The Mahindra came here only 2 years but sold a hand-full and some customers actually enjoy their purchase and gave the dealer a thumbs up! Lastly, the Gonow Troy is rare but can safely be mentioned as a market failure.
When you strip the top guns down to the chassis, you would realize that the top spots for strength would be the Hilux/Ranger/BT-50/Colorado/D-Max. Those pickups are ultra competitive. The Navara would then be rated with the Sportero.
For power, the Navara is optionally equipped with a V6 turbo diesel with enough torque to probably pull a back-hoe but we don't get that here. Instead we get the 450Nm beast in a light van which gives its owners maniac powers hence we see them erratically on our nations roads. The other beasts would be the 3.2 twins and the new Colorado 2.8 with the Duramax Diesel that is just as powerfull. Mid-pack are the D-Max, Sportero, Actyon and Hilux. Last would be the Great Wall, Mahindra and Gonow etc...
Sadly Trinis portray to be experts in everything such as fighting crime and even designing an automobile. We decided that if it doesn't have a Japanese name-plate, it just aint good and that's why TTTL, NM, ANSA, Southern Sales etc.. are smiling their way to the Bank.
But left up to me I would buy the Ranger/BT-50 and the Colorado simply because they're above average in its intended design. They maybe worse than a Hilux wrt resale value but to me those pickups bring me closer to the true trucky spirit that embodies the American Silverado and F150 etc..not just for their power but mainly their strength.
A172 wrote:v8boys dem old vans have ac?
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