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- From: alter@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Eric Alter)
- Subject: Re: Japanese Full Size Trucks
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.024728.26698@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:47:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.162829.26959@nosc.mil>, koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov20.142912.38332@watson.ibm.com> born@vnet.ibm.com writes:
- |> >Has anyone seen the commercial advertising the new full-size truck
- |> >made by Toyota? (I believe it was Toyota.) I've read in the past that
- |> >this is a VERY profitable market segment for the U.S. manufacturers.
- |> >It will be very interesting to see how they (Ford, GM, Chrysler) respond
- |> >to this new entry.
- |>
- |> Nope, didn't see the commercial yet, but I have read the reviews in
- |> 'Automobile', 'Four Wheeler', 'Four Wheel and Off Road',... as well as the
- |> advertisements from Toyota. All I can say is this thing is an even bigger joke
- |> than I had expected it to be, sure, it'll likely sell reasonably well to the
- |> brain-damaged Toyota-worshippers... until they try to load it down like it was
- |> a real truck... You see, this foolish thing is built on the *same* frame and
- |> running gear as the micro-'truck'. The consequnces of this fact are readily
- |> apparent to anyone with any truck-savy and will become evident to the
- |> brain-damaged-buyers of this thing...
- |>
- |> The 'T-100' will be the best thing that ever happened to domestic truck
- |> builders because of it flaws... It continues in the 'it-looks-like-it's-
- |> a-truck-but-don't-put-a-load-on-it' pattern of all the micro-'trucks'.
- |>
- |> Walt K.
- |>
- |> p.s. -- predicted msrp's are in the $25000-range... P.T. Barnum described any
- |> potential buyers of the Toyota T-100 quite well...
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- Wow, and I wrote so much and it could have been expressed in so few words...
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- Eric Alter alter@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
- IBM Corporation Rochester, Mn
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