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To: Red Badger

Because nobody wants to buy a truck like that. Even in the 80s, column shift manual was an endangered species because it sucked and nobody wanted to buy it. :P

Power windows are now cheaper and lighter than manual. Automatic trans is demanded by the market and CAFE.
Bluetooth is not standard in a fleet truck but it may soon be legally mandated by most states so it’s not like the makers will get a choice.


115 posted on 10/12/2017 9:38:06 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

There is a market for manual transmission trucks.


116 posted on 10/12/2017 9:39:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Spktyr
Because nobody wants to buy a truck like that.

I was raised poor. A truck like that would have been like a Cadillac to me. Now I can afford what I want instead of what I have to buy. The mfrs have neglected the low end of the market for the high end. Henry Ford had the right idea, make a car that everyone can afford, but the company that bears his name has forgotten that.............

117 posted on 10/12/2017 9:42:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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