Drag Times: 2015 Ford vs Chevy vs RAM

transamz9 wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

TXiceman wrote:
WHat matters at the end of the day is getting up the hill. Drag races don't do that.

I look at this way... The truck that gets up the hill the fastest is generally the truck that can pull that load up the hill the easiest. :W

Disagree...I KNOW my truck isn't the fastest off the line, BUT IT SURE TOWS MY 16,200# efortlessly through the mountains that I tow in...Seeing as how I'm not seeing how fast I can run light to light, or drag racing a truck that weighs right at 9,000#. I I know what I know about my truck from putting about 21,500 miles on it at this point, and that's this; it wasn't built to race, it was built to work, and that is what it does in a most excellent way.

Lot more to towing up a hill/mountain, other than just how fast the truck could do it when not towing...with a heavy 5er hooked to the truck being towed up the mountain, the cooling system as well as the tranny figure more into it in a different way than setting at a stop light and seeing who can get from 0 to "whatever" in X amount of time...Childish at the least..

I don't think he meant racing to be first. I think what he meant and you will probably agree with me is that most of us when we pull a hill will push the truck to a comfortable point and stop. What it runs is what it runs speed wise. Don't you new truck pull your load up a hill a little faster with the same effort than you older Cummins trucks did?

I believe really that that is the main reason the Cummins is liked so much. It makes it's power down low where normal cruising RPM are so it makes towing feel effortless compared to having to rev to get to it's power.

transzam9, I'll give you that one, but I really don't have anything to compare to except a 2010 Dodge Ram dually and a 12'...(only Dodge/Ram trucks I've ever owned, and the 13' in my sig), and they've all done quite well and been excellent trucks or I'd went back to GM/Chevy, which is a "faster" truck, and a very good towing truck to be sure, just been impressed with this one enough to stay with Ram, and you're right, it's pretty doggone quick and can run at a very good speed when it comes to towing, especially towing in the mountains.