{"id":96721,"date":"2009-12-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/23\/report-mahindra-distributor-says-first-u-s-models-to-hit-marke\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:00:00","slug":"mahindra-distributor-reportedly-says-first-u-s-models-to-hit-market-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96721","title":{"rendered":"Mahindra distributor reportedly says first U.S. models to hit market in spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/trucks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Truck<\/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\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" 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>\nStarting to wonder if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/mahindra\/\">Mahindra<\/a> TR20 (two-door) and TR40 (four-door) small pickups will ever come to market here in the States? You&#8217;re not alone. Though our Magic 8 Ball still tells us it&#8217;s likely that the compact trucks will indeed make an appearance at some unknown point in the future, news comes by way of PickupTrucks.com that the Indian haulers have been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pickuptrucks.com\/2009\/12\/mahindras-us-distributor-says-first-trucks-on-sale-by-spring.html\">delayed yet again<\/a> until sometime in the spring of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? It should &#8211; this isn&#8217;t Mahindra&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/08\/25\/mahindra-delays-launch-in-u-s-to-late-2009\/\">first delay<\/a>. As a matter of fact, it&#8217;s not its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/08\/07\/u-s-mahindra-pickup-reportedly-stalled-until-february\/\">second delay<\/a>, either, not that the extra time is completely unexpected. After all, it&#8217;s not easy to launch an entirely new brand in the United States with as-yet untested products.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Global Vehicles USA, the chosen distributor for Mahindra&#8217;s wares here in the States, is saying that the TR20 and TR40 have now passed U.S. federal safety and emissions standards and the final paperwork will be completed by February. We shall see.<\/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:\/\/news.pickuptrucks.com\/2009\/12\/mahindras-us-distributor-says-first-trucks-on-sale-by-spring.html\">PickupTrucks.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/23\/report-mahindra-distributor-says-first-u-s-models-to-hit-marke\/\">Mahindra distributor reportedly says first U.S. models to hit market in spring<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST.  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You&#8217;re not alone. Though our Magic 8 Ball still tells us it&#8217;s likely that the compact trucks will indeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96721","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=96721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}