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Ron W.

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Promaster arrived in Canada before the Transit. The ProMaster City and Nissan/Chevy NV200 have arrived within the past 12-18 months. Well after the TC.

 

 

Ram Promaster City intro'd in January 2014 as a 2015 model, so more like 3 years, but still well after (Ford 2010 in NA).

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The Ram Promaster is pretty horrible from reviews I've seen of it..its a FWD Large Van. I think they are making in-roads to the market by pricing it cheap. We'll see how it does, but I think it will wind up like the Nissan NV.

 

Funny you say that. I drove by a local plumbing business recently and they had 3 NV in their company colors but with the decals removed parked in front of their office with 'FOR SALE' decals in the windshields. They had brand new Transit further in the lot.

 

I wonder why they traded them all so soon.

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Funny you say that. I drove by a local plumbing business recently and they had 3 NV in their company colors but with the decals removed parked in front of their office with 'FOR SALE' decals in the windshields. They had brand new Transit further in the lot.

 

I wonder why they traded them all so soon.

The Nissan V8 is really hard on gas in real world use.

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The Nissan V8 is really hard on gas in real world use.

 

 

Cant speak to US, but in Canada Titan half ton is V8 crew cab only. NV full size van is V8 or 4.0 V6 in the half ton. The 4.0 is also known as a thirsty engine.

 

If these are commercial vehicles the MPG rating would just be another tax write off. I would think that a/any company would be more interested in reliability. And yes I'm aware that maintenance is also a write off, but if the wheels aren't tuning you ain't earning.

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If these are commercial vehicles the MPG rating would just be another tax write off. I would think that a/any company would be more interested in reliability. And yes I'm aware that maintenance is also a write off, but if the wheels aren't tuning you ain't earning.

Yeah. Ok. Clearly you are operating a small contracting company. Edited by J-150
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If these are commercial vehicles the MPG rating would just be another tax write off. I would think that a/any company would be more interested in reliability. And yes I'm aware that maintenance is also a write off, but if the wheels aren't tuning you ain't earning.

 

It's not just a write-off, it's money out of pocket.

 

Would you rather give the government 35% of the 10% you save on gas and keep the other 6.5% for yourself, or spend all of that on gas so you can write it off?

 

And I've got some experience with the Nissan NV vans, there is absolutely nothing to recommend them unless they are dirt cheap--or you value 0-30 times in a van. They are poorly built, poor handling, thirsty and noisy things.

 

It's not that they are unreliable as such--as in they'll be continually in the shop and undriveable--it's that little things on them are often out of sorts. One example with the NV I dealt with--the windshield wiper comes loose from the pin it's on, and stops working. This is a known issue when you, say, try to use the wipers to clear snow off your windshield. Nissan tech fixed it in like five minutes and showed me how to fix it myself.

 

I can completely understand why that contractor would swap out NVs for Transits. That makes all the sense in the world.

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