{"id":395321,"date":"2010-03-05T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/report-mahindra-to-set-u-s-pik-up-launch-date-in-next-few-week\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:29:00","slug":"report-mahindra-to-set-u-s-pik-up-launch-date-in-next-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/395321","title":{"rendered":"Report: Mahindra to set U.S. Pik-Up launch date in next few weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/suvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">SUV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/trucks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Truck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/commercial-trucks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Work<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/india\/\" rel=\"tag\">India<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/diesel\/\" rel=\"tag\">Diesel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/mahindra-pik-up\/#3\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/08\/mahindra-truck.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Mahindra Pik-Up &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nTired of waiting around for an official launch date for the hotly anticipated (in certain circles, at least) compact diesel pickup truck from Indian automaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/mahindra\">Mahindra<\/a>? Good news, then. According to a report from <em>Automotive News<\/em>, the largest utility vehicle maker in India and its U.S. distributor, Global Motors, will make an official announcement regarding the targeted sale date of the Pik-Up within the next two-to-three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Before you get too excited, realize that Mahindra only hopes to announce a launch date &#8211; when that date will actually be is still anyone&#8217;s guess. In fact, Mahindra President Pawan Goenka said in an interview that the vehicle is still undergoing Environmental Protection Agency testing here in the States and an official application to allow the truck to be sold here has yet to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Pik-Up&#8217;s official launch in the U.S., Mahindra plans to continue focusing on its export markets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-mahindra-looks-to-import-scorpio-suv-by-end-of-2010\/\">with a new SUV <\/a>designed specifically for the European and North American markets. Judging by how long it&#8217;s taken to get its first model on the market, though, we&#8217;ll keep our excitement bottled up for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mahindra-pik-up\/low\/\">Mahindra Pik-Up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mahindra-pik-up\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/08\/mahindra-pickup-large_21_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mahindra-pickup-large_21\" title=\"mahindra-pickup-large_21\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mahindra-pik-up\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/08\/mahindra-pickup-large_11_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mahindra-pickup-large_11\" title=\"mahindra-pickup-large_11\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mahindra-pik-up\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/08\/mahindra-pickup-large_22_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mahindra-pickup-large_22\" title=\"mahindra-pickup-large_22\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mahindra-pik-up\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/08\/mahindra-pickup-large_12_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mahindra-pickup-large_12\" title=\"mahindra-pickup-large_12\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mahindra-pik-up\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/08\/mahindra-pickup-large_13_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"mahindra-pickup-large_13\" title=\"mahindra-pickup-large_13\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100305\/COPY01\/303059975\/1193\">Automotive News<\/a> &#8211; sub. req&#8217;d]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/report-mahindra-to-set-u-s-pik-up-launch-date-in-next-few-week\/\">Report: Mahindra to set U.S. Pik-Up launch date in next few weeks<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:29:00 EST.  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Good news, then. According to a report from Automotive News, the largest utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}