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Why is there no toyota diesel
If Yanmar can make a nice small 48hp engine that powers my JD 4700 then I'm sure they have the technology to make the appropriate diesel for an automobile.
David
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Why is there no toyota diesel
I was not thinking of capabilities but off the shelf. There is no question that they could as any of the diesel manufactures could. The question is will they and will it have the power to weight necessary for the NA market. People in other regions of the world are not worried about getting on and off of express ways.
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Why is there no toyota diesel
Us tractor guys have soft spots in our hearts for diesels, but the average city dweller does not. I think if the market was there, they would sell them. Isuzu made a nice little diesel pickup in the eighties. Not many people bought them.
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Why is there no toyota diesel
Our company has a nearly new Nissan P/U with a diesel. The security men use it day and night.
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Is the nissian avaiable in the US? What year is it
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TV news are showing stuff at a big car show. Nissan is showing a full size P/U to compete with F/C/D. It's not the 7/8 size that the Tundra is. They said it was going on sale later this year; didn't hear if there was anything said about the engine options. Any news out there?
My Toyota dealer said a a crew cab Tundra is on it's way, plus a larger powerplant, but i haven't seen any hard news on it either.
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Just got back from England. The tractor trailers there are all deisel and about the same size as American ones, but are mostly made in Europe. The few Japanese ones I saw were all Isuzu or Mitsubishi. I never saw a Toyota. The Isuzu tractor trailers were smaller than American or European rigs, but the engines were plenty big enough to stick in a pickup truck. I don't think Toyota makes big deisel engines. I might be wrong.
By the way, I never saw a Mack or Peterbuilt or any other American semi over there. The most common brand of tractor trailer by far was Scania, followed by Volvo and DAF and Man and Iveco, there were a few Mercedes too but not as many as I expected, and many other brands. But no American ones. In England they aren't called tractor trailers, they are called "articulated lorries."
Half of the big trucks over there were Scania. Scania is made by Saab.
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I know that GM owns Saab cars, not sure on the trucks.
I know that Ford owns Volvo cars, not sure on the trucks either.
So may be just different varieties in England.
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Jim, when you said 7/8's size you said Tundra, but you must have meant Tacoma.
Tundra meets the traditional yardsticks for an american pick up truck: 8 ft. bed and three across seating.
According to the scales at the dump it weighs 5000# with me and a full tank of gas. The F150 ahead of me last week checked out at 5400# but that was an extracab with a shell and two guys aboard.
If there is something lacking in the the engine department (or maybe compartment) I can't find it. I busted up an old foundation two months ago and hauled the rubble to the dump. The truck/trailer/load checked in at 12,000# and I did sixty climbing the hill to get there with gas pedal left over. And the whole scenario occurred at a mile above sea level.
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The Tundra is a nice truck, but I wish Toyota made a real 1-ton with GCWR of around 20K lbs like C/F/D. I have a Ford dually diesel and fairly often run at that weight or a little more. The Tundra seems more equivalent to a 1/2ton.
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