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Originally Posted by bigearl
I agree kind of, but when you look at truck sales- that's a lot of US market potential if they could hit the right combination. Never write them off, the US was all laughing at the little Corolla saying Toyota could never really get into the sedan market in the 80s- then poof *Camry* and the US has been reeling for 20 years.
And this truck is by UD which has been in a partnership with Nissan using Volvo engines for a while. They could probably put something together that's halfway good if they really dedicated their minds to it.
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The big difference is that there was also a JDM for small and midsize cars. All they had to do was tune their product to our tastes and thats that. But what about full size sedans? Unless you go into the luxury brands, the segment is essentially dominated by domestics. Same conditions exist for trucks. North America is pretty much the only place you'll ever see 1 ton pickups (or 3/4 ton, or half ton for that matter). Their small pickups (Tacoma in the US, I forget what their international one is called) do well, but the Tundra doesn't have nearly the same success, and Toyota put a lot of money and effort into it. Meanwhile, the Titan barely even registers to someone considering a 1/2 ton. The same would go for any attempt at something bigger.