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TomG2 wrote:
acadianbob wrote:
HA! You think? Motor Trend spreads the awards to keep their advertising revenue. And they hide behind "it has to be a change from the previous version". Truck of the year won't mean best truck for 2014.
They have to spread it around. People would get tired of reading about how Chevrolet bested the competition year after year.
what I have said many times and still feel it is true. Kind of like listening to sports announcers getting excited when nothing is happening.
chevmanAPT wrote:
Wow, 801 pounds of payload for the Ram!
Curb weight: 5999
GVWR: 6800
My Civic weighs in at 808 pounds of payload. Just shows how meaningless these reviews are, that one of these trucks is optioned out to a point to be worthless as a 'truck'Francesca Knowles wrote:
...snip.....Maybe so, but only when you add up all those aliases....and I don't even want to get into what that "light-duty" nambypambyness means. :B
As always for work trucks: stick with the brand that only needs one name!
What is "namby-pamby" about using light duty for half ton pickups? GM and others label their 2500 and 3500 series as being HD. I don't think that means Half Done. Are GMC and Chevrolet now two separate entities divorced from the parent corporation? I have not heard about it. If brand "x" produced batteries and sold them under different labels wouldn't they still be the largest purveyors of batteries if they produced more than any other company?
I helped Ford out by buying three of my last seven pickups from them, but about like the rest of the country, my other four were GM products.
Where does the chart mention "work trucks"?- Looks like Car and Driver wanted to be first out with a review of the new trucks even if it meant doing a worthless series of tests. Hard to understand as in April of 2012 they did attempt a SAE J2897 type of test for the big three's 1-ton trucks where they actually put a load behind the trucks during the testing.
Trucks are for hauling or towing and tests with the truck devoid of cargo or passengers provide no indication of how well the different trucks will perform in real world situations. TomG2 wrote:
I think we have all seen that chart, or one like it, showing GM to be the largest seller of light duty pickups.
Maybe so, but only when you add up all those aliases....and I don't even want to get into what that "light-duty" nambypambyness means. :B
As always for work trucks: stick with the brand that only needs one name!Vapor_Trails wrote:
I think we have all seen that chart, or one like it, showing GM to be the largest seller of light duty pickups. Thanks for the reminder.APT wrote:
THe 5.7L Hemi has always required 87 octane and 89 recommended.
The Ecoboost is 87 required, 91 recommends for hot temps and heavy loads.
Thanksacadianbob wrote:
HA! You think? Motor Trend spreads the awards to keep their advertising revenue. And they hide behind "it has to be a change from the previous version". Truck of the year won't mean best truck for 2014.
They have to spread it around. People would get tired of reading about how Chevrolet bested the competition year after year.gmcsmoke wrote:
I wonder if GM will win motor trend truck of the year too?
HA! You think? Motor Trend spreads the awards to keep their advertising revenue. And they hide behind "it has to be a change from the previous version". Truck of the year won't mean best truck for 2014.
