by Cowboy Dave on Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:52 pm
The Triton was a market leader when it first came out. Pioneered many of the things that are now standard. The Hilux has only just recently caught up. It's hard to be critical of Mitsubishi for wanting to get some years out of it before coming out with a whole new model.
Yeah the ranger might better, but we're what, 6 years down the track? You want to hope it was better after that amount of time. And go an try to buy one and you'll soon find out that all of the extra bells and whistles don't come cheap. One of the reasons the mazdas are selling despite being fugly is that the fords are so pricey. And they're still having problems despite all of that.
You also need to make allowances for the parameters the manufacturers get stuck with - pollution requirements these days leave them a bit hamstrung when it comes to engines. That said obviously we'd all love to see the Pajero version of the 3.2 with the VGT turbo on it in a Triton.
When it comes to things like barwork, low range gears and so on we also need to be realistic about it. Probably 95% or better of these things never even use low range. So crawler gears and snorkels are never going to be standard items.
The idea of an offroad pack has some appeal though. If they marketed a model with OEM extras like lockers, lower gearing, snorkel, winch bar, sliders, a bit of a lift and decent ATs from scratch we'd be lining up for it down the street.
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