3.22.2013

Wish list

Most of you know I want a new car.  My truck is handy.. very handy.. but it isn't much of a family vehicle and is kind of cramped.
It could carry Max in a pinch, but that's about it.  I've been trying to get a handle on my needs for a vehicle, and then balance that with my desires (Bugatti?), and then cap it all under a budget.
I haven't had much success.  I think I finally know what I want and it doesn't exist.  So listen up automotive industry.  I would like a vehicle that has great cargo and hauling space, can seat 5 (which we all know actually means 4) and gets great mileage while still being powerful.  You may think that these desires break the laws of physics.  I say you just aren't trying hard enough.  How about something like a scaled down Chevy Avalanche with a small turbo diesel.  Take the new Chevy Coloroado world truck platform, put on 4 doors and that ridiculously small 4 foot bed, but give it a folding rear cab wall so I can have a 6 foot bed for those odd home depot runs.  Give me a 200+ HP diesel engine with nearly twice as much torque.  I was thinking 240 HP with 375 ft lbs would still be able to return something in the high 30 MPGs on the highway.
Drop the sucker on the market for under 30k and you will realize that the small truck market hasn't died in America, it has just been ridiculously under served and ignored.
Since this doesn't look like it will ever happen.. maybe I will just buy a station wagon.  I hear Audi is bringing more TDI models to the U.S. next year.


*UPDATE*
I looks like Toyota has the basics down in a concept truck they debuted a while ago.
http://www.trucktrend.com/future/concepts/163_0712_toyota_a_bat_concept_truck/photo_03.html
http://www.trucktrend.com/future/concepts/163_0712_toyota_a_bat_concept_truck/photo_06.html

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