Rise of Foreign Car Companies

When most people hear the word Sport Utilitypremiering their most popular pickup truck the
Vehicles they immediately think of a road hogging,"Scorpio" in North America later this year. These
gas guzzling eyesore. Jeep has long been one of thecompanies have reported 6.7 billion dollars in revenue
largest suppliers of sport utility vehicles in Northin 2008, so this new venture should be a welcome
America, but with gas prices rising and the Americanchallenge.
auto industry on the decline, foreign car companiesWhat makes the new line of pickup unique is the fact
are beginning to make a name for themselves in thisthat it will be using a diesel hybrid engine while still
specific market.falling into the light duty truck category. What this
There are dozens of these major up and comingmeans for consumers, is up to 40 percent better gas
foreign car manufacturers, however their approach ismileage and saving them money. What this means
a little bit different than creating the biggest truck onfor the environment is that there will be up to 30%
the road. Some have been Founded as far back asless greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
1945 in India where they are still based out of today,The two-door and four-door trucks should be
they lead the nation as the largest producer ofavailable in fall of 2009 while many companies are
tractors and sport utility vehicles. Although they haveplanning to release a Sport Utility Vehicle model in fall
already started distributing vehicles internationally,of the following year.
mostly to countries like China and Italy, they will be