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I am a Suzuki Samurai owner.

My fellow Zukers have longed for a replacement for our Samurais. Alas, it is apparent that the models that have followed - Most notably the Jimny - will never hit the US market.

Mahindra has offered somewhat of an alternative with the TR-20/TR-40:

Basic small truck, diesel power, part-time 4wd, practical (and different) transportation.

I have compared the costs of a full-sized Diesel truck (as many of you have probably done, too) to the Mahndra and have discovered that, for what I want to do I can save upwards to $25,000 compared to, say a SuperDuty Ford Diesel.

I don't need to haul 11,000 pounds. I don't need heated leather seats and power everything. I need something that can pull my 2300-pound Samurai on a two-axle trailer to somewhere other than the poor-house. I want a truck that I might be able to mod for offroading. I want the Mahindra TR-series pickup truck!

Soon I will find out if this truck is the real deal I have been waiting for...