Mercedes Developing a new Pickup Truck
Looks like a lot of input from Australia in it's development, similar to the Global Ranger, which was developed here MERCEDES-BENZ will target Australia and New Zealand’s lucrative light-commerc...
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Slownsy wrote:
Robert I have in fact bean op Baldwin st for a look, it may be the steepest street in the wold, but as it is only a short no tru streat it has really not got much to do with toving a FW over mountains, if the highest pas in Newseland is only 1076m that is only about 3300'. If peaple in Australia like the Mercedes when it coms out great, the Americans do have a thing about ther big disel pickups, if they can't go op a mountain pulling 10 ton FW without dropping a gear it is no good, the fact that they got 6-8 gears don't matter. ????
Try the other roads in New Zealand, they are as almost as bad, as that other extremely steep street in Wellington, that goes to the top over looking the harbour. NZ seems to have a staggering number of very steep roads. They certainly would be dropping gears on them. I actually walked down and up Baldwin, there is a similar street in Hobart Tasmania
