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ST. LOUIS – Isuzu Commercial Truck of America will reinstitute a gasoline-powered light-medium truck in 2011 as a 2012 model, the company’s U.S. head said.
Shaun Skinner, executive vice president and general manager, did not name the manufacturer, but told LIGHT & MEDIUM TRUCK that the company again would offer a 6-liter V-8 gasoline engine with a 6-speed automatic in their Class 3 NQR model.
Isuzu lost the gasoline model when General Motors, the engine supplier, announced last year it was getting out of the medium-duty commercial truck business. A company spokesman said last year that the gasoline version accounted for about 40% of Isuzu’s Class 3 sales in the United States.
Isuzu builds its own diesel engines in Japan.
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