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Old 08-09-2018, 01:02 PM   #87 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
Actually the simplest small pickup could probably be had by taking the Ram cargo minivan and chopping the top off behind the front doors. Add a wall and some "bed" rail caps and you would have a nice fwd pickup good for almost 30 mpg, an 8' bed, and about 1800 pounds of payload for under $20,000 new.
Fiat already does it in Europe, where the Doblò/ProMaster City is available in a cab-and-platform version to be fitted with aftermarket bodies. Well, since GM and Ford have once imported Japanese compact trucks as a cab-and-chassis in order to fit them with locally-made beds and therefore circumvent the Chicken Tax, it wouldn't surprise me if Fiat took the same approach with the Doblò there.
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