Like the pickups, luxury vehicles also tend to have higher margins as compared to mainstream cars.
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The gas engines for the pickups will come from a factory in Indonesia, which will churn out 180, 000 a year, of which 130, 000 will be exported.
The pickups will be available from next year.
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Among the other drama pickups (the only comedy, The IT Crowd, won't air until later in the season): Journeyman, about a newspaper reporter traveling through time, and Chuck, about a computer geek turned government agent who has spy secrets embedded in his brain.
With four new engine choices, the new pickups will get up to 20 percent better gas mileage than the 2010 models, Ford says.
Everyone in the industry will be watching to see if the GM pickups are a success.
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Then I spotted Kelly driving one of the white pickups and we got in with him.
The 2004 pickups, each with a distinct image, set a new standard in refinement.
In addition to the six pickups, Democrats retained 14 governorships while Republicans retained 14.
Perhaps 1, 000 of the new pickups have been built not enough to support a launch.
"Monday night residencies, especially Spaceland at the beginning, they didn't choose bands that could draw, " says Brian Aubert, the Silversun Pickups' lead singer.
That was the case, he says, with bands including Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Local Natives and the Silversun Pickups.
The growth of pickups is mirrored by the rise of the sports-utility vehicle and absurdly large cars such as the Chevrolet Suburban (so called because a small European suburb can be fitted inside).
On the bright side, higher sales of the more profitable pickups and luxury cars in the U.S., could push up its margins.
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"We saw a real change in the industry demand in pickups and SUVs in the first two weeks of May, " Ford chief executive Alan Mulally said Thursday.
Terry Andreessen, a dealer in Libby, Montana, estimates that sales of the company's pickups declined 15% in the Northwest between February and September.
These expected high-mileage runners run the gamut from affordable small cars like the Toyota Yaris and the Scion xB and xD, to family minded SUVs including the Acura RDX, Lexus RX 350 and the Toyota RAV4 and 4Runner to utilitarian pickups like the Chevrolet Avalanche and Honda Ridgeline.
This trend, they said, would nudge GM pickups closer to the average transaction prices enjoyed by Ford pickups, which are higher by several hundred dollars.
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It's used on the big Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, plus the really big Suburban sport utility vehicles, the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon.
It's used on the big Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, plus the really big Suburban sport utility vehicles, the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon.
The recovery in the U.S. housing market is fueling the growth of pickups, which are used extensively for construction activities.
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The new GM pickups come with a bunch of improvements, including an all-new family of V-6 and V-8 engines called EcoTec3.
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"This is a red-neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun, " says a longtime political observer.
Firing machine guns from the beds of pickups, Chad's commandos delivered Mr. Gadhafi one of his most decisive defeats in his 42-year rule.
Some arrived crammed in the backs of pickups, others by bus.
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But few people opt for the base engines in big pickups, because they actually need the torque for towing or carting.
The special love Texans have for pickups may be connected with the functional demands of private land ownership.
Once the procession of commuter pickups with their flaring headlights had passed, everything was silent and dark the groomed shops on the main street, the courthouse, the gas stations trimmed with hedges, the Gothic prep school behind the lake.
But 10 days after he returned to the complex from a visit home, terrorists sped in on pickups, overtook the compound and made hostages of its workers.
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