Oops, Someone at Mahindra Misspoke, Kinda - Some Pickups Due in U.S. This Year

Oops, Someone at Mahindra Misspoke, Kinda - Some Pickups Due in U.S. This Year

A spokesman for Global Vehicles , the U.S., distributor for Mahindra & Madindra , says this morning's report of a delayed launch of the company's diesel pickups here was an accurate report of an inaccurate comment by an official of the Indian company.

Huh?

Seems a Mahinda executive misspoke in an interview with the Asian Wall Street Journal when he said the company wouldn't launch sales of its diesel pickup in the U.S. until sometime next year.

In fact, said spokesman Michael Geylin, Global is planning a slow, region-by-region rollout of the trucks, beginning late this year in the Southeastern states.

There won't be a flood, more like a tickle, but a "small number" of Mahindra diesels will be on sale in this country by the end of the year, Geylin said. But the company won't be selling nationwide until the latter part of 2010, he said.

The rest of the info in this morning's article was correct, we're happy to say.

John O'Dell:  is an AutoObserver Senior Editor. Follow @AutoObserver on Twitter.