Open up front of trousers look down, if relatively small then buy a huge truck with huge wheels to drive through downtown Vancouver. That is usually the best way to find out which one to buy. Sometimes the price of an extension is less than an F350 - Dodge Ram etc.......

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Dobbie

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=519445

Check out post #6

Getting back on track, I wonder why it is that the domestic quality sucks, after all most of the imports are built in North America. Can it be down to the unionized workforce that the big 3 are stuck with???

for your info, the main truck of choice for the thieves it appears at the moment is the ford f150/250/350. No exaggeration at least 3 per day on average so far i have found, and that is a conservative estimate. i have worked a 7am-6pm shift today, recovered two f250's stolen this morning, saw an alert for a f350 supercrew thing stolen this afternoon, and just as i was leaving there was a burglary where keys had been stolen to the f250 outside. Yet to hear a report for a tundra being stolen. guy i work with has the 5L.something v8 monster, which he puts 2 bmw off road motorbikes in and swears by it.

Ah. For Christmas a colleague bought her partner tickets to the Habs/Leafs game on or about December 15th. They drove to Montreal in his Tundra, stayed in the Hilton, were delayed one day by a storm and then tried to reclaim it from the hotel parking lot. It was gone. "China" said the cops.

No I think it is that Northern America being such a large area they have never really got their base standards/procedures/principles in place so where as in UK/Japan the industry is very focused not just on safety but performance related issues. When they rework a car that is all they do is they take their base model and improve gradually year by year.

I work in Agricultral control systems and the whole thing is a mess in terms of standardisation and base principles. So instead of improving an existing model we tend to re-invent the wheel everytime we do something.

This is just a guess but i would imaging that would be the main reason that Northen America has fallen behind in recent years.

you know this must be a regional thing. i mentioned a job i worked on with the as was national crime squad, where top end vehicles, some 4x4's but mainly sports cars, were being corralled in parts of manchester and liverpool, then shipped to saudi, the ring would then change the identity and ship them back as grey imports with no docs. having told this story i got a complete blank looks from the locals here, too high end it appears. However on speaking to a chap from RCMP with CIS connections, it appears this is in fact rife, depending where you live. I think the ford thing here at the moment is strictly for local cloning, engines and panels.

I suppose it depends why you want the truck but, if it's about pleasure, I suggest that a nice domestic would serve you better than an import. North Americans are into trucks, people recognize the expensive options on the
F350 when it pulls into the bar parking lot in the same way Canadians hear an expensive Ski-Doo pulling in. I don't have a domestic truck but did run a premium Mustang, I found that I was besieged by people shouting "nice car, buddy", and wanting to look at my plumbing, a cop even let me off with a $50 fine for being 60mph over after a discussion of Mustang options. These things don't happen when driving an imported car. An imported truck is worse. In most places it'll just seem a bit effeminate but in any hick place or in Michigan driving such a thing invites people to spit at you. If you want to integrate do yourself a favour and go domestic.

Yeah, you'll get to know your local service dept real well and learn all the American terms for parts of a vehicle.

That's not been my experience.

Yeah, but you said the same thing about homeopathy for horses.

Your an Electrician right? Seriously, you dont need a half ton truck.

Darren

Need and want are two entirely different things!

Nothing like a bit of fearmongering to try and get your point across, not part of the Bush administration are you?