Toyota Diesel

sleepy wrote:
Will they ever haul a self contained truck camper?

I see an awful lot of empty 1/2 ton trucks on the road... most don't look like anything has ever scratched the paint in their beds.

There are a lot of them in my neighborhood that aren't used for work... jacked up, oversize or expensive pretty wheels, fancy flaps (mud flaps that is) special exhausts to make them loud, chips, etc.

Their owners had a piece of cardboard hitting the spokes of their bicycle wheels when they were children... and tassels on their handle bars...

As adults some of these people have laser lights and LEDs on their bicycles and wear special racing cloths to ride around the neighborhoods.... extended childhood

Wanta bees...

in my opinion...

A large portion of the little diesel trucks that the OP mentiond will end up as pimped up and nearly usless except for groceries or hauling a couple of gallons of gasoline for the lawnmower

Where they will excell is driving round and round the Sonic Dirive In.... and rumbling through the neigborhood empty.

And at what cost?

Different strokes for different folks
Some crowds like lift kits and driving into every mud puddle they can find , I dont get it , but what ever drives the economy
Some probably dont get having a TC

The cost is , more diesels in the USA , better or worse ?
A few years ago when imports started using more diesel motors I heard it would bring down the cost of diesel . I havent seen that
Now CA has "smog tests" for diesel, and we lost most of the cetane in our diesel
I have a grocery getter VW diesel car , if I needed a light duty truck I might get a diesel Toyota
Its for sure when those trucks come out its going to spike the "will my truck haul this camper " thread count