Re: [AMC-List] Ambassadors (getting past EPA/DOT)

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny one of the things I like about my Dakota is I can actually haul stuff with it and the mileage [in town at least] is the same as the S10! At least I now know what the S stands for! But I won't say here as then I'd have to wipe up the mess.
  The MOPAR Canvas look cover on it is the easiest one one I've ever used. It rolls up in a few seconds and reinstalls just as quick.
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- "Swygert wrote: 
> >>
> it is with morbid amusement that i see japanese companies successfully
> import their suvs as -cars- but get them past the epa and dot etc as
> -trucks-.
> <<
> 
> The rise of such instances is why the EPA/DOT (one or the other, or
> both) have at least started thinking about changing requirements for
> light trucks to be the same as for cars. To many people use light trucks
> (3/4 ton pickups and under) for regular passenger conveyance. Ask some
> truck owners to haul something for you (say a washing machine you just
> bought) and they'll have a fit! "Not in my 440K truck -- might scratch
> the plastic bed liner, and I'd have to unfasten the tonneau cover too!!"
> I think it would be a great change, say anything under 10K GVW (a 3/4
> ton pickup would weigh at least 6K -- 4K or so of truck, 1.5K payload,
> and an extra 500 lbs of passengers) regardless of type meets the same
> EPA/DOT standards. With today's technology there isn't a lot of
> difference in power output like there used to be. 
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