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Kia cancels pickup plans

By Bob Holland | May 8, 2008

Bad news for Kia and truck fans. Mike Levine of PickupTruck.com is reporting (via a conversation with Jalopnik editor, Ray Wert) that the Kia pickup is not going to happen.

Apparently this cancellation is a victim of the high gas prices, and the effect that is having upon the light truck market. The truck was to built in Georgia...

Instead, a mid-sized sedan will be built there.

Full story here and here.

Categories: Kia

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estreka says:

07:29 AM, 05/ 8/08

That's ok. There's not exactly a vacuum in the truck market now anyway. I'd have been surprised if Kia shocked the world with a class-leading entry.

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wenhead says:

08:40 AM, 05/ 8/08

Kia was probably right to pull the plug on their pickup. Timining and fuel prices are not good.Since we never got the diesel Sorento in the states, I guess that wouldn't have been an option.
I wonder why VW is going forward with their pick up program. It would make more since to put a more fuel efficient base engine in the Rabbit.

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