{"id":1022,"date":"2010-02-18T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:57:56","slug":"mini-truck-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/mini-truck-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Truck Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sokon USA Mini-truck\" src=\"http:\/\/dealernewsblog.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/sarge.jpg?w=450&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"286\" \/><\/strong><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarge mini-truck from Sokon USA??????????   Photo by Branimir Kvartuc<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sokon USA<\/strong> &#8211; After encountering quality issues with their first attempt several years ago under the Mattruck brand, Hal Ferrell and Michael Lewis of Sokon USA have launched a mini-truck based hunting vehicle.?? Selling under the brand Sarge, these mini-trucks feature four wheel drive, a 45 hp engine and a 25 mph top speed.?? The company claims the vehicles are classified as LSVs and are street legal depending on state and local regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle, which seats five, is sourced from China based DFM (Dong Feng Motor), a subsidiary of Chongqing Yuan Group and will retail for about $14,500.?? In addition to the hunting market, the vehicle will compete against utility vehicles in the construction, turf, ranching, farming and government markets.?? <a title=\"Sokon USA Mini-truck\" href=\"http:\/\/dealernewsblog.com\/2010\/02\/13\/sokon-usa-offers-utv-alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Dealernewsblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DFM Mini-truck (Thailand)<\/strong> -?? Driven by rising demand in the Thai market, the company is talking to the parent company DFM of China about?? manufacturing vehicles in Thailand rather than importing them from China.?? <a title=\"DFM Mini-truck (Thailand) News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandchat.org\/inside\/dfm-mini-truck-may-switch-from-importing-to-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Thailandchat.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sokon USA &#8211; After encountering quality issues with their first attempt several years ago under the Mattruck brand, Hal Ferrell and Michael Lewis of Sokon USA have launched a mini-truck based hunting vehicle.?? Selling under the brand Sarge, these mini-trucks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/mini-truck-developments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,13,14,16,18,25,27],"tags":[257,295,349,350,609,772,809,820,835,1148,1195,1303,1375],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-management","category-market-entrants","category-market-trends","category-mini-trucks","category-nev","category-sourcing","category-utility-vehicles","tag-china","tag-congqing-yuan-group","tag-dfm","tag-dfm-mini-truck","tag-hal-ferrell","tag-lsv","tag-mattruck","tag-michael-lewis","tag-mini-truck","tag-sarge","tag-sokon-usa","tag-thailand","tag-utility-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}