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Diesel-Powered Tiger Champ Pickup Gets 37 MPG, Only Road-Legal In Oklahoma [Tiger Champ]
                   
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Jul 21, 2008
        

Mike Ward, CEO of Tiger Truck LLC, thinks his Chinese-designed, Oklahoma-built Tiger Champ truck is just what Oklahoma farmers need — particularly with 37 MPG from its Caterpillar-sourced three-cylinder diesel engine. With a retail price of about $13,000, the price point is certainly right. So why isn't the nation signing up for the Tiger Champ and its sister truck, the Tiger Star? Both trucks are slow. Neither pickup is legal, outside of Oklahoma, to drive on public roads. Oh, and neither meets federal safety standards. Good thing Ward's got friends in high places. The Champ and its smaller brother, the Tiger Star, were both designed by China-based Chongqing Changan, and are shipped to Oklahoma as partial knockdown kits. Tiger sources the remaining parts stateside and completes assembly at a facility in Poteau, OK, with the... [read full story]                    

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Search Ads vs. Organic Results: Google's Conflict of Interest

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Pete Townshend changes iconic Volkswagen camper van for a Transporter Sportline

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Prove Me Wrong

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Vilmar has a post up wondering how on earth Obama is so far ahead in the polls when all this ACORN dirt is making the news. Papers, film, video, sound recordings ... it doesn’t matter. No. We’re in Iraq because “Bush Lied (by...

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