Mahindra Looking Again To Assemble Trucks In The U.S.

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According to reports, Pravin Shah, Mahindra & Mahindra's executive vice president of international operations, told journalists in India today that the company is considering purchasing an assembly plant in the U.S. to build its Scorpio platform pickup trucks and SUVs that will be sold here starting next February. Shah said that such a move would make sense because Mahindra hopes to make the U.S. its largest export market.

We can think of another reason: The so-called "chicken tax" 25% federal import tariff levied on foreign-built pickups. It was Mahindra's original plan to assemble pickups from knockdown kits in Ohio to avoid the tax but that idea was scrapped in favor of Indian-built units to expedite the arrival of the trucks in the U.S.

I remember a while back, I was reading the Farm Show and their was an article in there about this. I believe it said that you could get a brand new half ton pickup from them for $9,000?

Thats the one thing I cant find, pricing. No one has any solid information to support any price.

Yeah there aren't any prices yet because these bastards are still trying to find a way around import taxes before they can say how much this truck is gonna cost! I'm against this truck because 1 it's ugly as fudge! 2 why do we need another 1/2 ton pickup truck! Especailly one from India!! It's bad enough we have chinese and japanese trucks now we're getting indian trucks!! What's next redesigned yugo's from baghdad!!!

Forgive me for my harsh words but I think this whole idea of this Mahindra truck is stupid!