PirateMcGee
Expedition Leader
I would be happy to see the Montero Sport return....there's clearly room in the market against the 4runner and fuel economy and price needs could be realistically met over the Montero.
Hummer's gone. H3 was mechanically the ZR2 Blazer with square sheet metal and less visibility.
Yeah. I know. Which is to say they decided not to drop a bajillion dollars into retooling to sell a couple thousand $40k SUVs in a market where the most vocal minority - with no grasp of their truly progressive thinking - had likely never actually bought a new Mitsubishi.The Normal plant is closed.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/arti...downstate-mitsubishi-plant-makes-last-vehicle
And... we know exactly when that will be now that the TPP text is available:
So, who wants to speculate what the 2045 Montero will look like when it makes its triumphant return to the US?
:squint: uhh... I think maybe you took me a little too literally. When I said the H3 is basically the ZR2 with different sheet metal I didn't mean any of the parts were interchangeable or that the H3 was literally built on the ZR2 frame, I meant that the H3 is the effective successor to that market.
The ZR2 is based around the S10 drivetrain and sheet metal but has its own frame, has its own axle borrowed from the 1/2 ton trucks, etc. The H3 fits the same segment and since the Colorado succeeded the S10 platform obviously the H3 is based on that instead. No surprise they didn't make a ZR2 Colorado or or try to bastardize a GMT360 (Trailblazer/Envoy) into a ZR2 package - it would have competed with the Hummer brand - but that customer still existed (and still exists today).
Right now there's a ton of 90's and 2000's steel still out there serving that market, the guys willing to keep old steel on the road anyway - but I really am curious where these guys are going to turn as old steel rusts and crumbles with time. Personally I've ended up in a full size pickup, I don't really like it (the size..) but I need the utility and it's this or spend a disproportionate amount of my time worrying about reliability on some 15 year old junk.