Mercedes XCLass
Will be interesting too what they want to do with this. Competition is now the Amarok according too MB. That has now 254hp and 420lbs ft of torque. Japanese are being a little bit agitated. Would not ...
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Dayle1 wrote:
OZ is a small market and even a big presence would not save a US company if the US market declined. Japanese and other global builders are already forced to design and build units for opposite steering, so the OZ market is an ez addition. Personally I think US hd trucks could work fine there but the volume is too small to justify design, building and shipping them down under along with sales support. Truth is none of this really matters.
In the Japanese case not much of stretch , as their Japanese sourced vehicles are RHD anyway.
F250-F350’s from 2003-2007 were RHD from the factory , sold by Ford.Australia So no outrageous prices.
Still they made barely an impact and were dropped.. They struggled for a myriad of reasons..
If the US manufacturers want to sell Globally( Hedge against a downturn, excess vehicles in stock) They would have too see what Pickups if any can be sold directly from the factory too overseas locations, without much modification. Japanese do this rather well
