Any factory equipped diesel ½ ton and smaller trucks out there?

[DBogo]

im pretty sure its the mitusbishi truck with a mitsubishi diesel that dodge rebadged and sold as the ram 50

 

[southpaw]

DBogo your right on . This truck looks just like a d-50 and has mitsubishi badges . I worked with a guy who had the dodge version and another had a mazda non turbo tough truck but sloooo. I wish I could post photos I have all the mechanics to do so but not the mental connection. heck i,m still trying to program my vcr.

 

[Grizzly]

I hear from a reliable source that Toyota will have a one ton big truck with a diesel option soon.

 

[DSpencer]

As fuel prices explode and worries continue, I can make a prediction. Whoever first comes out with these half ton full sized and small trucks with diesel option will have no problem selling out with these preconceptions:

The half ton full sized diesel will have towing capabilities at least equal to gassers. The power will allow it to accelerate with gassers. My own assumption is that they will have mpg increases of up to 30 percent above comparable gassers. The Cummins diesel that was made to show what a half ton would do was rated at 21mpg and 27mpg hwy. That was a vehicle that was already built, although only as a demonstratin (or tease) of what could be made.

A small Toyota, Ranger, Colorado with a 4 banger should get 35-40mpg highway(guessing)? That would be one big seller also.



I am sure that the automakers are eyeing this market and are pouring resources towards this end, I wonder when real trucks will emerge. I know I will be looking hard for them although it will be no earlier than next year when the first 15ppm diesel will be widely available.



What truck owner will not be then looking at a diesel truck?

 

[DBogo]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1983...4568293807QQcategoryZ6197QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem



theres one if anyone is interested

 

[SmokinU]

Now that's a pretty cool little truck. That is the first little Dodge diesel pickup I've ever saw.



Brandon

 

[guava]

several years ago, I'd looked into the Toyota FJ-40 diesels. They came in the standard jeep configuration and in a truck config. They only went into australia and canada as I recall. Importing from canada to the US required the vehicle to be at least 15 years old.



Being bureaucratically challenged, I never looked into how much paperwork it would take but the trucks were cheap to get up there.

 

[KBennett]

There used to be a guy on Ebay that had a Toyota turbo 4 cylinder diesel and the trans pulled from a pickup. He claimed that it would bolt up to any Toyota pickup.

There was a guy that worked with me at the time that had a really clean early 90's Toyota pickup that the motor was starting to lose power and I thought about purchasing it and dropping in the diesel.

Unfortunately I need the four doors so it probably would have sat most of the time.

 

[Wayno]

Look at ebay number ------ 4571368802

 

[DBogo]

Look at ebay number ------ 4571368802

thats a nice looking little truck