Pickuptrucks.com did a challenge of the one ton SRW's. Just started posting some of the results, Chevy won. One Ton Challenge

I only had to read the first line... Price. No truck today is worth 70 grand to me. Especially when you can buy a low mileage off lease vehicle with a factory warranty for about half of what a new one cost. I believe in letting the first owner/leasee take the depreciation hit. I'm not proud. Bought my last 2 vehicles that way.

SidecarFlip wrote:I only had to read the first line... Price. No truck today is worth 70 grand to me. Especially when you can buy a low mileage off lease vehicle with a factory warranty for about half of what a new one cost. I believe in letting the first owner/leasee take the depreciation hit. I'm not proud. Bought my last 2 vehicles that way.One quick observations I've seen so far. Some RVers are over-truck for their trailer. Not my business really. And then again, they must have been able to afford it: the truck, higher maintenance and gas.Almost tempted myself as first time RVer.

Now that we got that out of the way......I wasn't too surprised in the Ram being the slowest especially being hooked up to a slow shifting Aisin, but I am surprised it having the lowest fuel economy. The newest Duramax seems to be very fuel efficient. I would have to say GM's newest HD offering is beating the competition in just about every test even fuel mileage, but that is to be expected with a all new truck versus a competition that is almost 10 years old. Although the Ford was just recently updated. No doubts they will just keep leap frogging each other with every new iteration which is a plus for us. To be fair about the Aisin, even the 68RFE does not shift that great in stock form, but at least you can tune the 68RFE to shift much better and quicker.

RTCastillo wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:I only had to read the first line... Price. No truck today is worth 70 grand to me. Especially when you can buy a low mileage off lease vehicle with a factory warranty for about half of what a new one cost. I believe in letting the first owner/leasee take the depreciation hit. I'm not proud. Bought my last 2 vehicles that way.One quick observations I've seen so far. Some RVers are over-truck for their trailer. Not my business really. And then again, they must have been able to afford it: the truck, higher maintenance and gas.Almost tempted myself as first time RVer.Ditto, ditto and ditto again.

ShinerBock wrote:Now that we got that out of the way......I wasn't too surprised in the Ram being the slowest especially being hooked up to a slow shifting Aisin, but I am surprised it having the lowest fuel economy. The newest Duramax seems to be very fuel efficient. I would have to say GM's newest HD offering is beating the competition in just about every test even fuel mileage, but that is to be expected with a all new truck versus a competition that is almost 10 years old. Although the Ford was just recently updated. No doubts they will just keep leap frogging each other with every new iteration which is a plus for us. To be fair about the Aisin, even the 68RFE does not shift that great in stock form, but at least you can tune the 68RFE to shift much better and quicker.Did the ram perform a regen during the test? If so all fuel economy tests are apples to oranges.

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Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Aug 01, 2018
4x4ord wrote:
Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Maybe I need to get rid of the Ford and get a Ram."

If the 2020's are good looking maybe we can get a two-fer. :B

I could likely get you a very good deal on a new Ram. I think I could buy a fully loaded Laramie Limited for about 59K USD. The problem would be that you would not have any warranty once you imporyed it into the US.

I met someone that did that, it was an insanely low price, without warranty!
Mortimer_Brewst
Explorer II
Aug 01, 2018
It’s good to see that Betty has healed up from the beating.
Ralph_Cramden
Explorer II
Aug 01, 2018
Mortimer Brewster wrote:
Ralph Cramden wrote:
Mortimer Brewster wrote:
Ralph Cramden wrote:

hallelujah......Pickuptrucks.com LOL.

Did someone mention Betty White in this thread? What in the hell brand of truck is she driving? And what does she know anyway, she's a washed up hag? There are better Betty's in this world, Crocker and Rubble come to mind.

Taking cheap shots at a 96 year old woman? Real classy! :R

Which is exactly what you need to do..
4x4ord
Explorer III
Aug 01, 2018
Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Maybe I need to get rid of the Ford and get a Ram."

If the 2020's are good looking maybe we can get a two-fer. :B

I could likely get you a very good deal on a new Ram. I think I could buy a fully loaded Laramie Limited for about 59K USD. The problem would be that you would not have any warranty once you imporyed it into the US.
blt2ski
Moderator
Aug 01, 2018
Here I thunk it were summer, you would all be out camping......driving your rigs.....but NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

You're all arguing over a blinken test or some such thing......

like the 10 best/worst truck article I saw earlier today.....the worst trucks, all it said was copious repairs.......um........what kind of copious repairs for the twuck model year etc please and thank you! useless piece of garbage that article was! Probably like this test article etc.......

I'll stick with chebbies.......If you do not like then, go buy a Frod or Dogde,,,,,they might be better at some things than my chebbies.....but worst in other items......yep, that is my opinion, smells like the rear hole too!

Back to regularly scheduled debate!

Marty
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Aug 01, 2018
4x4ord wrote:
ib516 wrote:
The performance deficit the RAM suffers from comes from the fact that it has 385hp and the others have 440+. That extra HP wins the races. The Chevy is a bit of a bargain too!

I was just thinking how it's been a while since the HP / torque debate has surfaced on this forum. Dodge should have sent a Hellcat to the competition instead of a gutless Ram.;)

My Son’s friend just bought a Charger SRT HellCat. That was the fastest thing I have ever ridden in. 707hp burning rubber thru 5 gears was insane.

I do think the AISIN would have done better. :B
Bionic_Man
Explorer
Aug 01, 2018
4x4ord wrote:
ib516 wrote:
The performance deficit the RAM suffers from comes from the fact that it has 385hp and the others have 440+. That extra HP wins the races. The Chevy is a bit of a bargain too!

I was just thinking how it's been a while since the HP / torque debate has surfaced on this forum. Dodge should have sent a Hellcat to the competition instead of a gutless Ram.;)

Please..... Hellcat? That is so 2016. The Demon is the big dawg now.
4x4ord
Explorer III
Jul 31, 2018
ib516 wrote:
The performance deficit the RAM suffers from comes from the fact that it has 385hp and the others have 440+. That extra HP wins the races. The Chevy is a bit of a bargain too!

I was just thinking how it's been a while since the HP / torque debate has surfaced on this forum. Dodge should have sent a Hellcat to the competition instead of a gutless Ram.;)
ib516
Explorer II
Jul 31, 2018
The performance deficit the RAM suffers from comes from the fact that it has 385hp with 3.42s. The higher HP the others make (440+) combined with their slightly shorter gears win races.

The Chevy is a bit of a bargain too!
Mortimer_Brewst
Explorer II
Jul 31, 2018
Ralph Cramden wrote:
Mortimer Brewster wrote:
Ralph Cramden wrote:

hallelujah......Pickuptrucks.com LOL.

Did someone mention Betty White in this thread? What in the hell brand of truck is she driving? And what does she know anyway, she's a washed up hag? There are better Betty's in this world, Crocker and Rubble come to mind.

Taking cheap shots at a 96 year old woman? Real classy! :R

Which is exactly what you need to do..

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