Toyota Cab Chassis farce

[The Lone Ranger]

Hi All, have just started looking for a suitable fourby to tow a van and possibly another purpose built trailer. Needs to be able to tow more than 2500 kg and have more than four cylinders and be a cab chassis design as I need to have a tray. At the moment I have a RTV and if there was a way that I could modify it to tow more than 2300 kg I wouldn't even bother considering replacing it. So down I go to Toyota at Morayfield and in their yard they have a new 09/07 build V8 Diesel Work Mate that they let me take for a test drive. Now while the new engine is a very sweet thing indeed the rest of it is just hopeless. How can they justify $60 odd thousand on a vehicle that is essentially the same as when it was introduced back in 1984 or there abouts. No ABS and no Air Bags not even as an option on either of the three variants. Oh yeah and If you want cloth on your seats instead of vinyl you have to by the GXL which then reduces the seating capacity to just two. All I could say to the salesman is that Toyota are very luck that Ford are unable to offer the F Series to the Australian market.

Cheers, Darren