couple of things I came across
 

so while doing some research on some things that honestly have no bearing on this, somehow I came across this site and saw 2 interesting articles right away:
Mahindra to build in Alabama_2012
hybrid based (A-BAT) truck by toyota/scion

Good links.
Think they will sell the Mahindra here ?

I hope so...
it would be nice to finally have a decent "truck" platform to work with from the get go, instead of trying every trick under the sun to eek out every extra drop of fuel :)