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Grit dog wrote:
Well, all I can say is I'm sorry you don't have the ability to run bigger, more capable, more powerful pickups. Guess I'll consider myself lucky I live on a continent that I can have a little truck OR a big truck. Becasue I do things with my pickup that the pint size ones can't.

We have bigger more powerful trucks that can do a lot more than your Pickup can. Apples too apples.Remember up too 2007 they used too sell the 7.3 litre Diesel F250-350’s in Australia, . .,I would be concerned about the fact that as Soundguy and others have noted in the past, that HD Pickups do not exist outside the US.( I notice you run a 3/4 ton)Of all the Pickups sold in the US , you would think the HD Superduties would have a market outside the NA, being mostly diesels

@ Soundguy
I have seen US Pickups disappear from Australia. You do not like the fact, but that is your problem not mine
When you are seeing total numbers of 300 vehicles sold in a year . That is boutique numbers
Want be to be critical argue on facts and leave sarcastic remarks behind
If US Pickups were anyway popular they would be still selling from Dealerships

Well, all I can say is I'm sorry you don't have the ability to run bigger, more capable, more powerful pickups. Guess I'll consider myself lucky I live on a continent that I can have a little truck OR a big truck. Becasue I do things with my pickup that the pint size ones can't.

rjstractor wrote:
I think what makes this all seem so ridiculous is judging what goes on in an entire nation based on hearsay or a few visits where the vast majority of us on this site have lived here our entire lives. I've never been to Australia so I don't claim to know anything about it, other than the tiny glimpse I've seen by watching a couple of reality shows on trucking in the Outback. Those guys face challenges for sure, but I've personally witnessed road conditions (or rather off-road conditions) on back roads and construction sites here in the states that were every bit as challenging. I live near a big city, but I can drive an hour away and find off road driving conditions that rival just about anywhere. The same can be said for most areas of the US.

RobertRyan wrote:
"I have never been too Australia but find "conditions that rival anywhere "
Maybe you could explain that too all the people here and outside NA who DO NOT BUY US
Pickups. Pretty parochial answer.

As one who is married to an Australian and has been Down Under a number of times it would be refreshing to read intelligent, unbiased commentary from a fellow Aussie but that's clearly not the case here with all the wandering rubbish you're posting RR. :R You also might want to brush up on your sentence structure and grammar so the rest of us have some hope of figuring out what you're trying to say, ridiculous as it may be ... in context of how you're using it, it's "to" not "too". :S

Bedlam wrote:
Conditions in Australia don't require the capabilities of a heavy duty pickup, so there is no market for them?

No they used to sell them here from showrooms. Question you could ask why b others outside NA have not acquired them?

Conditions in Australia don't require the capabilities of a heavy duty pickup, so there is no market for them?

rjstractor wrote:

RobertRyan wrote:

rjstractor wrote:

kw/00 wrote:
Well what makes your trucks better in the water then? Do they in close all electrical work then and enclose the engine area? Not being a smart ... but just curios. Here in the US plenty of people put there 4x4 trucks well off road. Especially in Florida, these boys here buy a brand new shiny truck and take it right to the woods. I can tell you from personal experience they have no problems driving them through swamps etc... all across America, guys really use there trucks for farming etc... I can tell u from growing up on a remote farm, we used our 4x4 vehicles all the time and they were abused horribly, but they got the job done. ..so another question is what about you rvs? How can they withstand the water so deep and get no damage ? Just wondering how they build it to withstand that punishment. I see you point about camping in remote areas in your country. Actually that's pretty cool !

On edit cool pics btw...

Actually, it's the Corealus Austrailus effect, you know that since whirlpools run backwards down there that somehow results in their trucks being able to go off road where US trucks can't. JK, the statement that "US trucks don't go off road" is the most ridiculous thing I've read on this site....

Well you can take a Class 8 Truck Off Road. But I have noticed you can take a Tacoma down small tracks, but not a Dually. It depends on the terrain .
I.think K/Woostated that his parents saw no HD trucks where they have went overseas
that from a US manufacturers point of view is more of a concern than seeing the occasional 1/2 ton.. If there is a downturn in the US economy , where is the markets too sell.?
They cannot do a MB and create a new Pickup or a truck that meets the needs of needs of “potential “HD type buyers

I think what makes this all seem so ridiculous is judging what goes on in an entire nation based on hearsay or a few visits where the vast majority of us on this site have lived here our entire lives. I've never been to Australia so I don't claim to know anything about it, other than the tiny glimpse I've seen by watching a couple of reality shows on trucking in the Outback. Those guys face challenges for sure, but I've personally witnessed road conditions (or rather off-road conditions) on back roads and construction sites here in the states that were every bit as challenging. I live near a big city, but I can drive an hour away and find off road driving conditions that rival just about anywhere. The same can be said for most areas of the US.

"I have never been too Australia but find "conditions that rival anywhere "
Maybe you could explain that too all the people here and outside NA who DO NOT BUY US
Pickups. Pretty parochial answer.

RobertRyan wrote:

rjstractor wrote:

kw/00 wrote:
Well what makes your trucks better in the water then? Do they in close all electrical work then and enclose the engine area? Not being a smart ... but just curios. Here in the US plenty of people put there 4x4 trucks well off road. Especially in Florida, these boys here buy a brand new shiny truck and take it right to the woods. I can tell you from personal experience they have no problems driving them through swamps etc... all across America, guys really use there trucks for farming etc... I can tell u from growing up on a remote farm, we used our 4x4 vehicles all the time and they were abused horribly, but they got the job done. ..so another question is what about you rvs? How can they withstand the water so deep and get no damage ? Just wondering how they build it to withstand that punishment. I see you point about camping in remote areas in your country. Actually that's pretty cool !

On edit cool pics btw...

Actually, it's the Corealus Austrailus effect, you know that since whirlpools run backwards down there that somehow results in their trucks being able to go off road where US trucks can't. JK, the statement that "US trucks don't go off road" is the most ridiculous thing I've read on this site....

Well you can take a Class 8 Truck Off Road. But I have noticed you can take a Tacoma down small tracks, but not a Dually. It depends on the terrain .
I.think K/Woostated that his parents saw no HD trucks where they have went overseas
that from a US manufacturers point of view is more of a concern than seeing the occasional 1/2 ton.. If there is a downturn in the US economy , where is the markets too sell.?
They cannot do a MB and create a new Pickup or a truck that meets the needs of needs of “potential “HD type buyers

I think what makes this all seem so ridiculous is judging what goes on in an entire nation based on hearsay or a few visits where the vast majority of us on this site have lived here our entire lives. I've never been to Australia so I don't claim to know anything about it, other than the tiny glimpse I've seen by watching a couple of reality shows on trucking in the Outback. Those guys face challenges for sure, but I've personally witnessed road conditions (or rather off-road conditions) on back roads and construction sites here in the states that were every bit as challenging. I live near a big city, but I can drive an hour away and find off road driving conditions that rival just about anywhere. The same can be said for most areas of the US.

rjstractor wrote:

kw/00 wrote:
Well what makes your trucks better in the water then? Do they in close all electrical work then and enclose the engine area? Not being a smart ... but just curios. Here in the US plenty of people put there 4x4 trucks well off road. Especially in Florida, these boys here buy a brand new shiny truck and take it right to the woods. I can tell you from personal experience they have no problems driving them through swamps etc... all across America, guys really use there trucks for farming etc... I can tell u from growing up on a remote farm, we used our 4x4 vehicles all the time and they were abused horribly, but they got the job done. ..so another question is what about you rvs? How can they withstand the water so deep and get no damage ? Just wondering how they build it to withstand that punishment. I see you point about camping in remote areas in your country. Actually that's pretty cool !

On edit cool pics btw...

Actually, it's the Corealus Austrailus effect, you know that since whirlpools run backwards down there that somehow results in their trucks being able to go off road where US trucks can't. JK, the statement that "US trucks don't go off road" is the most ridiculous thing I've read on this site....

Well you can take a Class 8 Truck Off Road. But I have noticed you can take a Tacoma down small tracks, but not a Dually. It depends on the terrain .
I.think K/Woostated that his parents saw no HD trucks where they have went overseas
that from a US manufacturers point of view is more of a concern than seeing the occasional 1/2 ton.. If there is a downturn in the US economy , where is the markets too sell.?
They cannot do a MB and create a new Pickup or a truck that meets the needs of needs of “potential “HD type buyers

kw/00 wrote:
Well what makes your trucks better in the water then? Do they in close all electrical work then and enclose the engine area? Not being a smart ... but just curios. Here in the US plenty of people put there 4x4 trucks well off road. Especially in Florida, these boys here buy a brand new shiny truck and take it right to the woods. I can tell you from personal experience they have no problems driving them through swamps etc... all across America, guys really use there trucks for farming etc... I can tell u from growing up on a remote farm, we used our 4x4 vehicles all the time and they were abused horribly, but they got the job done. ..so another question is what about you rvs? How can they withstand the water so deep and get no damage ? Just wondering how they build it to withstand that punishment. I see you point about camping in remote areas in your country. Actually that's pretty cool !

On edit cool pics btw...

Actually, it's the Corealus Austrailus effect, you know that since whirlpools run backwards down there that somehow results in their trucks being able to go off road where US trucks can't. JK, the statement that "US trucks don't go off road" is the most ridiculous thing I've read on this site....