I was fortunate to go to Morelia on business a few years ago. We were there long enough to develop a bit of rapport with our Mexican liaison. One evening at dinner I asked him, in his opinion, what the major problem was in Mexico. He said that it was that Mexico has a large wealthy class, a small middle class, and a huge poor class. That's what my comment was based on.

I saw something like that here in Vegas a few months ago. Had to stop and check it out. I think they would sell a ton here on price alone.

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With a bed that small, you could fit the same payload into the trunk of your car. And the stuff wouldn't get wet.

Im very familiar with that area of the country, Morelia proper is very small. If not further south in a couple tourist areas id hardly see any Americans in that state, easy place for Amricans to go missing.

What you wrote is not far off from what I did, the huge poor class is a large part due to the gov. Most cant grasp the nice parts of Mexico City put places like NYC to shame.

looks like it's built on the small jeep platform

I agree it's ugly, but tastes in other countries are very different, as are needs.

How can you call it ugly when we have stuff like this running around up here?



I dunno, I kinda like the two door version..........

Not that I'd buy one but they look better then some of the other vehicles being sold these days.

Exactly.

if it wasn't a ram/fiat they would sell a ton of them in this country.

One thing that caught my attention was is it being introduced as manual trans only, at least in the 2 dr. Dunno how that plays in Mexico but that was at least 1/2 of how the most recent Dart failed - US buyers have rejected manual transmission probably to keep that hand free for the cell phone. It does kinda channel the Rampage vibe but the Sprinter nose and Subaru Brat roof line doesn't exactly work. If it is actually built on the Renegade platform, it could be a capable, if not overly impressive, mini truck.

The thing I'd like to know is just how far from 48 state legal it is as produced. Based on price, they must have dropped about $10k worth of compliance per unit and how do ya pull that off? The "World Engine" concept as I understand it is build one driveline, sell it globally, reap cost benefits by not building country or brand specific engines. Assuming the Mexican EPA is much more liberal than the US version where's the savings in building a Mexico specific motor that runs dirtier than the thing yer already cranking out by the truck load? Cut down the number of air bags - how much could a couple side curtains add? Do they dodge big costs on crash testing?? How is this thing about 1/2 of what a US legal version would cost?

If "you know who" gets President, the corporate CAFE is going through the roof, they'd better something to raise the average.

I like the truck, but would just assume have a Rampage with a 4 cyl stick and working air.