That is right, but I bet there are a lot of people out there who want a V8 auto 1-tonner capable of seating 3 people and tow over 2 tonne. If Ford and Holden locally built cars people wanted they would be selling them and they wouldn't be closing. All Ford would have had to have done is built a wagon, Engineered the Falcon for LHD and kept a V8 and they would probably still be going alongside Holden.
I may have to end up biting the bullet and buying a 4.0L 6cyl Ford cab chassis at the start of 2016 because that is when my Hilux will be 5 years old and ready to be changed, and I bet by that time the new Hilux will be out and they won't be offering a 4.0L petrol option. I think the only reason we have a 4.0L petrol Hilux now is it is the Tahoma in the US, and the car is designed and Engineered that way for construction in the USA (they don't get a diesel option). The fact it is so close in overall build to the Diesel variety, it is easy for the Thai plant to assmble the cars there and simply import the V6 and geabox as a whole drop in unit from the Landcruiser plant in Japan. I have a gut feeling it won't be that easy with the new shape Hilux/Tahoma when it arrives, and it'll end up like all the others with diesel only.
I'll still struggle with the whole idea of not only driving but owning a Ford, but I may simply have to deal with it! To me it'd be akin to dressing like an executive (suit, tie etc) or wearing pink clothes or wearing makeup or signing up to Facebook or other such polar opposite things that are simply not me!