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Oh lord wont you buy me a Mercedes-

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  • 20-06-2007 9:02pm
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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    - Fiat :D:D:D


    Daimler Chrysler buys Fiat light truck engines instead of developing their own !

    What is the world coming to ? :cool:

    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0706/S00329.htm

    Weeell ....strictly speaking they're going to end up in Mitsubishi Canters for starters ...but hey ...who cares ...Fiat rulez :p


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    Hotwheels
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Hotwheels


    Oh lord wont you buy me a Mercedes-

    My friends all drive Alfa's, I must make amends.. doo dooo :D

    Fiat do make a good diesel engine, so probably cheaper to buy from them... :)


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Yes, Fiat make good diesels ...

    But man ...it must be going quite heavily against the grain of those stodgy Swabian engineers in Stuttgart to openly admit to that by buying them in :D

    I can see quite a few people quietly crying into their "Trollinger" tonight :D


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    MercMad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Presumably its a cost thing. The Benz commercial diesels are all made for RWD vehicles so maybe trying to rengineer them for the FWD Mitsubishi's would be uneconomical !

    Maybe I amd talking through my hoop ! :)


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    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Canters are RWD. They're big enough trucks like. Well, Dyna size.


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    bit bigger than that ...up to 6 tons GVW, afaik


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    MercMad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Yahh..........Merc engines are too good for 'em !!


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