Must be some Telstra Workers out there
Submitted: Friday, Jul 30, 2004 at 15:12
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Davoe
Not trying to stir up a tired old Nissan vs Toyota debate, but now that telstra uses nissans I would think these people would be in an excellent position to judge apples with apples as they have to take fully laden utes out to whereever and try and make it back. I mean you can argue sales figures and blown front diffs etc until you are blue in the face but not alot would beat a direct evaluation by the people that really use their vehicles rather than the odd picnic a few times a year. I use Toyotas for work and often wonder if I would notice the difference
Reply By: Alex Callaghan - Friday, Jul 30, 2004 at 18:57
Friday, Jul 30, 2004 at 18:57
Davoe,
I have just recently purchased a 4.2 Nissan Cab Cassis for my L/scape biz along with 3 Hilux 3.0 to replace Some Couriers. Very happy with the Nissan so far as are my guys (FYI they drive it more than me) and is more than up to towing 2 800kg + comercial mowers or a 2ton + Tractor/ Slasher around all day plus the towing trailers. When loaded the trailing set ups for the bigger ute are heavy dudes indeed.
Never owned a 79-75 series so I couldn't comment on how they preform on a daily basis of yakka in the field. I did
test drive a 79series when I was searching for a large ute and I probably would have gone the 79 if It wasn't beyond what I had budgeted for. It had better preformance from 0km onwards and seemed like It would have been a great H'way driver. The interior was better for a work orientated vehical to.
The Nissan is great though. No complaints here.
As for Telstra. I would say Telstra (or any other large biz that needs a large number of vehicals) makes a short list of what vehicals that would suit them and approch the manufactures (in this case Yota n Nissan) and ask them to tender for supplie of, for instance 2000 Patrols or 79 series optioned how they want and wait and see who comes up with the better dollar figure.It's more than likely they would work it this way.
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