Sterling 360 Scoots Through Circles

摘要

It was a dark and chilly day, the kind you expect in mid-March in a place like Cleveland, Ohio, where winter sometimes just won't go away. Yet I was smiling because driving this Sterling 360 was outright fun. It is a slick, quick and nimble truck that deserves more sales than it gets, and that goes for all imported and domestic low-cab-forward vehicles sold here. Execs at all the importers thought that the entry into the market by Ford and International, with their jointly built (in Mexico) LC and CitvStar, would boost interest in LCFs, but it hasn't happened. A big majority of buyers still prefer conventionals, partly because most drivers think a hood and engine out front is safer in a frontal collision (it is) and that a conventional rides better (not necessarily). And conventionals usually cost less, which could be the biggest reason for their popularity.