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Originally Posted by Hersbird
The bodies are OK, but the frames are cracked, the wiring is shot. the suspensions as said earlier are long gone as well. The bid for the next gen says they want full 6' stand up height inside.
Laying aside the 6' interior, I personally think they should just use the right hand drive version of the Grand Caravan built in Canada for the Europe market. I can buy a brand new 2015 passenger version for $18,000, you'd think without seats and a 135,000 production contract the Post Office might be able to do a little better. Far short of the $25-35k each price tag for a custom built new LLV. I actually don't think a maker will be able to even do all of what they are asking for at that price point. The Grand Caravan does almost everything and they even have a diesel version.
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I imagine the 4cyl wouldn't be hard to engineer in there as well, possibly more savings.
As far as replacing the postal service vehicles, i really hope they fo with hybrids. Not sure a full-on ev would go over so well but it would be unfortunate not to have hybrids. GM has a good number of hybrids on the road, maybe trade government ownership for new fleet hybrids?