A huge U.S. military order for 24,000 minivans and Pacificas means DaimlerChrysler Canada employees can work overtime most Saturdays, holidays and even some Sundays until mid-July if they want to.
Company sources say the U.S. armed forces have ordered 19,000 minivans and 5,000 Pacificas for use as light-duty vehicles in the U.S., Iraq and elsewhere in the world. It is believed the light gasoline-powered vehicles will replace the diesel-powered Humvees in use as light personnel carriers on U.S. bases around the world to reduce fuel consumption.
The U.S. military has been increasingly concerned about fuel consumption in recent years, and its commanders have complained publicly that the diesel-guzzling Humvee is extremely inefficient in non-combat use to ferry a few soldiers at a time around base.
Ten thousand of the minivans -- all gold-coloured -- will be built at the Chrysler Group's St. Louis assembly plant, 9,000 at the Windsor plant. Windsor is the sole source of the Pacifica, so its employees get to fill the lion's share of the order, 14,000 vehicles.http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/052505_world_stories.shtmlMaybe they will just use them to ferry soldiers around on the four (or is it fourteen) enduring bases they plan to build in Iraq, each base no doubt being the size of a small country.
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