Battle of the heavy weights

The Mad Norsky wrote:

Hannibal wrote:
I don't care about who's fastest up the grade either. Obviously! However, what the test did show is that all three ran balls out towing 20k lbs up the grade with no failures or hiccups. That is the criteria I'm interested in. All three proved very capable.

BUT, (a big one :B ) here's my point. I personally would hope that I never end up with any of those trucks used in the commercial.

They've been abused, albeit possibly short term, but abused nevertheless.

Its always been mentioned on here, when giving advice for folks doing some towing over, say I-70 west of Denver, to NOT try and be fastest up the hill because one does NOT want their EGT's to go too high, or over 1200 degrees I believe.

Can one imagine what the EGT's were on those three vehicles???? Turbo boosting to the max and running flat out as hard as they could go?????

They had to be getting very, I mean VERY very warm.
EGT = exhaust gas temperature.

My truck would feel pampered if towing a 20 k trailer up a nice smooth grade was the toughest thing it ever saw. Using a tuck for its designed purpose is far from abuse in my books. With all the sensors and computers on these trucks now I would imagine it is next to impossible to abuse them. I was heading down the highway at 60 mph with my Ford when I realized I was going to need a hitch in my receiver. I was confident enough in the truck's software that I threw the gear shift into reverse to get the back up camera to come on....yep the hitch is installed and yep the truck is idiot proof.