Seen many a cool Spanish, South African, Brazilin, and of course Australian Mopar cars and trucks but this is a new one, at least to me....... ......But this is DAM FUGLY....I wouldn't mind having it!
Wow. I'm surprised Chrysler Corporation lent their truck names to those fugly bricks on wheels. I bet Walter Chrysler's Hell punishment is selling those. The Dodge Brothers are up in Heaven, laughing at him.
It's not just the names. Those are genuine Chryslers built under license. The labor's cheap, over there. So, if you can bargain, you could have one put into a container and shipped home for cheap. Turks like to bargain. It's a sort of sport to them
Third-world manufacturing on most of those. Specifically designed to be built with simple tooling - no compound curves in the sheet metal, etc... They would be far cheaper to produce - probably around 50% of the cost to build a plain standard Ram 1500 in the states.
Not to mention, if they even have emissions legislation, which I doubt, those engines are likely to be set to 60's specs and probably built in Detroit, before getting shipped overseas to get mounted there. Without modern gadgets and emissions plumbing, this should hold the cost down even further
The engines, like the trucks, are built in Turkey. Last 225 built in the US were warranty engines, built through 1990. Bringing a truck back to the US would involve finding one 25 years old or older, so it would be exempt from both DOT and EPA regs. As bad as US-Turkey relations are these days, the opportunity to import one to the US are exceptionally slim. Chrysler (and now FIAT) have done very well with the licensing agreement. I got to drive a pickup during one trip there in the '90s. If you've driven a late '50s pickup, there is the comparison. You'll find these in Turkey, Albania, Syria, Iran, and other countries in the region.
