Small pickup

glasshouse · Jan 16, 2022

pellow said:
yes, basically a Cortina pickup

Where can i buy one?

pellow · Jan 16, 2022

Europe, not sure why they are not bringing them to the UK

glasshouse · Jan 16, 2022

pellow said:
Europe, not sure why they are not bringing them to the UK

Emissions?
Or they think uk farmers all buy range rovers

essexpete · Jan 16, 2022

dave mountain said:
My 27 year old 4.2 is as good on fuel as my 2015 Hilux despite being a ton heavier, much bigger tyres and full time 4wd

Another 80 series

essexpete · Jan 16, 2022

Cowabunga said:
Why so? I’m all for large fuel tanks, even on relatively frugal vehicles. Same goes for tractors which I always aimed for a good 10 hours absolutely flat out, full power, between the need to refill. With cars/pickups, a 600 mile range while driving long distance is my target. Never have achieved it with a pickup but then again never actually travel far from home with it.
£90 is only 60 litres at today’s pump price. That is only 13 gallons, which is also just under the size of my Honda CR-V’s fuel tank. Not at all big and considering the size and duty cycle of a modern pickup I would wish for about an 80 litre tank, ideally nearer 100 litres.

The ridiculous part is the cost of fuel per litre, not the size of the fuel tank or the pickup’s fuel consumption. A 100 litre fuel tank will cost the best part of £150 to refill from near empty in today’s market. The car might still achieve 35mpg though, like a current Audi Q7, giving a comfortable 700 mile range.

I did not word well, I was really meaning mpg rather than tank size.

mo! · Jan 16, 2022

Our milkman has one of these.

http://www.dfsk.com/portal/index/vehiclemodelmobile/id/59.html

JP1 · Jan 16, 2022

mo! said:
Our milkman has one of these.

http://www.dfsk.com/portal/index/vehiclemodelmobile/id/59.html

Link not working ?

Highland Mule · Jan 16, 2022

JP1 said:
Link not working ?

At a guess: http://www.dfsk.com/portal/index/vehiclemodel/id/59.html

Cowabunga · Jan 16, 2022

Chinese businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party will take over the world if we buy their products built with cheap labour and cheap finance with a ridiculously and artificially weak currency. We already can’t avoid their products at many levels but mark my words, they will leverage their dominance to our disadvantage if allowed to get strong enough in market share terms in the markets, whether energy, automotive, financial, components, raw materials or electronics.

FonterraFarmer · Jan 16, 2022

Harvey the rabbit said:
Always thought Ford should have done a mondeo version of the p100,
Comfy, stylish and a usable rear tub.

They should have sold the Ford Courier like here in NZ and those funny islands further west!!!

Dead Rabbits · Jan 17, 2022

Farmer Roy said:
Err, arent Hilux / Navara / Ranger etc small utes ?
Certainly compared to 70 Series Landcruisers or F - Series Fords etc

The old Subaru Brumby, while very popular here in the day, wasn’t really big enough to carry much more than your water bottle & tucker box in the back

our roads would kill something like a Caddy or little Fiat, especially with a few hundred kilos of toolboxes & other essential crap in the back

Cowabunga said:
Chinese businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party will take over the world if we buy their products built with cheap labour and cheap finance with a ridiculously and artificially weak currency. We already can’t avoid their products at many levels but mark my words, they will leverage their dominance to our disadvantage if allowed to get strong enough in market share terms in the markets, whether energy, automotive, financial, components, raw materials or electronics.

Very true. “Someone should do something about them”

Dead Rabbits · Jan 17, 2022

Cowabunga said:
Chinese businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party will take over the world if we buy their products built with cheap labour and cheap finance with a ridiculously and artificially weak currency. We already can’t avoid their products at many levels but mark my words, they will leverage their dominance to our disadvantage if allowed to get strong enough in market share terms in the markets, whether energy, automotive, financial, components, raw materials or electronics.

Very true. “Someone should do something about them”

Red Fred · Jan 17, 2022

This guy bought a cheap Chinese truck

FonterraFarmer · Jan 17, 2022

Wellytrack said:
I’ll just have that modest Vauxhall pickup please….

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Looks remarkably like the Holden!!!

nxy · Jan 17, 2022

Sharpy said:
These seem good value compared to a gator etc, also good fuel economy.

They are 8Hp and instead of a gearbox using a similar arrangement to a cleaning fan speed variator off a combine. My ride on lawn mower is more powerful and has a better gearbox.

Then there is the question of insurance, they cost more to insure than v12 jags and when I asked an insurance agent about no claims bonus they said "it something we don't consider on that class of car". I mean would you insure a car that is only driven by people that are incapable of getting a licence for what ever reason?

Hilly · Jan 17, 2022

Cowabunga said:
Long gone. It stood at the top of my yard, dead as a Dodo, for a couple of years. I think it was scrapped back around 2008. It did well to work daily and hard from 1984 to 2006.

Oh that’s a shame .

Hilly · Jan 17, 2022

Cowabunga said:
Chinese businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party will take over the world if we buy their products built with cheap labour and cheap finance with a ridiculously and artificially weak currency. We already can’t avoid their products at many levels but mark my words, they will leverage their dominance to our disadvantage if allowed to get strong enough in market share terms in the markets, whether energy, automotive, financial, components, raw materials or electronics.

Said it for years, falls on deaf ears , all that cheap crap will prove to be very expensive one day as our freedoms will go with it .

Hilly · Jan 17, 2022

Cowabunga said:
Chinese businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party will take over the world if we buy their products built with cheap labour and cheap finance with a ridiculously and artificially weak currency. We already can’t avoid their products at many levels but mark my words, they will leverage their dominance to our disadvantage if allowed to get strong enough in market share terms in the markets, whether energy, automotive, financial, components, raw materials or electronics.

I know you and not many don’t like Donald trump but he did try to get the USA to be less reliant upon China and keep them at arms length but greed will see we all fall right into their trap ! Take over without a fight. .

glasshouse · Jan 17, 2022

mo! said:
Our milkman has one of these.

http://www.dfsk.com/portal/index/vehiclemodelmobile/id/59.html

What is that?
Who makes them?

JP1 · Jan 17, 2022

Red Fred said:
This guy bought a cheap Chinese truck

But not street legal so pretty pointless IMO

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