![]() It also had front disc brakes when most competitors had drums all around, and when tested by our then rivals at Road & Track it earned high marks for its handling, steering, and stopping abilities. The truck was still tiny by today’s standards, though, and weighed about 2800 pounds. ![]() With power to spare, Mazda embiggened its rotary-powered rig, adding six inches to the front track and five inches at the rear and flaring the fenders to accommodate relatively large wheels. The 1308-cc two-rotor engine made 110 horsepower at 6000 rpm and 117 lb-ft of torque at 3500 rpm-strong numbers when considered against, say, the Datsun 620’s 96 ponies. To complement the B-series, Mazda borrowed the Wankel rotary engine from its RX-4 coupe and created the Rotary Engine Pickup, also known as the REPU. sale, it joined other Japanese brands in offering its own compact B-series pickups in the early 1970s. Tony MarkovichĪt the same time Mazda was providing Ford with its Courier pickup for U.S. Somehow, the SUT didn’t kill the brand right then and there, as GM went on to build the H3 and subsequently the H3 pickup. It had a mounted spare tire on the tailgate that made towing far more annoying than it needed to be and a Midgate that, when the rear seats were folded down, expanded the miniature truck bed into the cabin of the SUV. In an attempt to keep things fresh, GM released the H2 SUT (Sport Utility Truck) for the 2005 model year. Many found the design to be offensive, the V-8 chugged gasoline faster than Frank “The Tank” Ricard put down beer during a keg stand, and the platform wasn’t nearly as off-road capable as its progenitor. Shortly after initial excitement surrounding the launch of the reborn brand and the new model ballooned, sales started to trail off. So, for the 2002 model year, it launched the Chevrolet Tahoe–based Hummer H2. Much like today, gas was cheap, and people were eating up big SUVs. When General Motors purchased the Hummer brand from AM General in 1999, seven years after the Humvee was developed into a commercial product, it planned to sprout a lineup from a single model. The S-10 is the rare EV that was claimed to be more efficient at highway speeds (45 miles of range) than around town (40 miles of range). Chevrolet pegged driving range at 40 to 60 miles federal testing returned 47 miles. ![]() A 114-hp three-phase, liquid-cooled AC motor towed the S-10 Electric to 50 mph in a claimed 13.5 seconds and to a top speed of 70 mph. Weirder still? To save weight and make room for that juice, Chevrolet chucked the rear drive axle and driveshaft and converted the S-10 Electric to front-wheel drive. It was recharged via a fairly high-tech inductive-charging “paddle” inserted into the S-10’s mouth per Chevrolet, “the sealed, weatherproof charging paddle lacks metal-to-metal contact and allows for safe recharging in any weather.” With lead-acid chemistry, the same as most cars’ 12-volt batteries and a far cry from the more power-dense lithium-ion construction favored by today’s EVs, the weak battery pack weighed more than 1300 pounds. Its 16.2-kWh battery pack has less than half the 40.0-kWh capacity as Nissan’s entry-level 2018 Leaf. Thus was born the most curious S-10 compact pickup in history, the 1997 S-10 Electric. ![]() Expensive Bros.In the mid-1990s, hot off the debut of its EV1 electric car-surely it’d be a winner!-General Motors turned its attention to electrifying the commercial-vehicle segment.edit Towne Centre at Springfield GlenneĪbercrombie & The Other Guy. ![]()
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