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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Yosemite_Sam1
Explorer
Jul 30, 2018
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.
SidecarFlip
Explorer III
Jul 30, 2018
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.

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