International TerraStar Is Just Right for Many Duties

摘要

Navistar International's TerraStar is not the company's first foray into the light side of medium-duty trucks. Throughout its long history as International Harvester, the company made pickups, cab-chassis, and vans that some of us old-timers remember. Most recently, Navistar thought it could grab some low-cabover sales with a CityStar series that Ford also sold as its LCF. But they went over like lead sleds with truck operators and the Great Recession did them in entirely. Although Japanese importers do a credible job with their low-cabovers in mostly metro areas, the real sales numbers in North America are in conventional-cab trucks and, of course, that's what the TerraStar is.