Thursday, September 22, 2011

New GM Mid-size Truck?


Autoblog.com is reporting today that GM has revealed plans to build a new version of the midsize Colorado at a plant in St. Louis. The information seems to have been leaked during recent UAW negotiations.

The truck industry as a whole seems to be in flux as over the years the mid and full size offerings from all manufacturers have creeped up in size. In fact the mid size is just the end result of where compact trucks from the past evolved into. There are rumors of Ford reintroducing a version of their old F100 pickup and Mahindra is said to be entering the US market with a true compact truck complete with a small 4 cylinder turbo diesel engine. The next few years will be interesting...

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