Ford and Chevy get all twisted up
With Fox off the Dish air, I now have a little time to browse other on-line providers. I've been wrestling with frame twist and how it effects the new Ford all aluminum frame 1 series, and other curre...
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jimh425 wrote:
I don't really care if my frame flexes or not, and also don't care if it is a few pounds lighter or gets slightly better mpg. It's fun from an academic argument perspective, but most trucks have been quite good for the past 15 years, and there have been very few advances for the past 10 years.
There have been a LOT of advancements in the last 10-15 years. The biggest one I can think of in trucks is 6 speed automatic transmissions replacing 4 speed automatics. That is an absolutely monumental difference--automatic transmissions haven't gained 50% more gears since the Powerglide was replaced with its predecessor automatics, and that was over 50 years ago.
