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Is the Fiat pickup any good? I owned an '89 Dakota, and it was a real disappointment. It got good mileage as a commuter truck but it wouldn't work. If you put 800 lbs. in the bed the frame was sitting on the axles. I'm driving a 2003 Mazda/Ranger, and it's an honest half ton pickup. I hope Fiat does better than Chrysler did.
Is the Fiat pickup any good? I owned an '89 Dakota, and it was a real disappointment. It got good mileage as a commuter truck but it wouldn't work. If you put 800 lbs. in the bed the frame was sitting on the axles. I'm driving a 2003 Mazda/Ranger, and it's an honest half ton pickup. I hope Fiat does better than Chrysler did.
The Ford Ranger/Mazda pickups are 1/4 ton pickups not 1/2 ton pickups the F150 is a 1/2 ton pickup. The S10 and Nissan Frontier and the Toyota Tacoma art all 1/4 ton pickups.
Is the Fiat pickup any good? I owned an '89 Dakota, and it was a real disappointment. It got good mileage as a commuter truck but it wouldn't work. If you put 800 lbs. in the bed the frame was sitting on the axles. I'm driving a 2003 Mazda/Ranger, and it's an honest half ton pickup. I hope Fiat does better than Chrysler did.
Fiat offers two pickups:
Fiat Fullback which is a rebranded Mitisubishi L200 build in the same Thai factory as the L200. It is sold in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa:
Fiat Strada is a FWD trucklet made in Brazil and sold worldwide except for the US and Canada. It's offered as the Ram 700 in Mexico:
This new Dakota will look nothing like either of them as it will be bigger than those.
That could be because most Americans may not know that either of the two exist!
They want a full size bed like the Colorado the new Dakota is to compete with Chevrolet and the new Ford Ranger those Fiat little pickups look like the old Ford sport trac and look what happened there.
FCA knows what Americans will buy in a pickup and those 2 are not it, the Dakota will look a little like the Ram 1500.
You can thank the chicken tax as the reason companies don't import small trucks here. After the 25% tariff, the price of a small truck would cost more than a full sized truck.
Many companies tried to get around it, for example the Subaru Brat having the two seats in the bed to have it not classified as a light truck, but those loopholes were quickly closed.
A couple of companies are waiting in the wings with models for a younger, urban dweller who wants these types of pickups. Tastes are changing, and they can wait until market forces are right.
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