new GMC 1500 2x4. No one needs 4x4 anyway
Got wife 2018 GMC 1500. No one but famers,ranchers, ult. company, cops, logers, and people up in Canada need 4x4, just something saleman sell people who have good credit anyway. Waist of money.
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Flashman wrote:
OK l will bite.
Try coming out West in the mountains in The winter and make that claim.
Flatlander
Well, OK. I grew up in Northwestern Montana, in Hungry Horse. My step father was a faller in the woods. He drove a 1950 Plymouth station wagon to work, spent all week in a logging camp, then drove home for the weekend, after loading the back of the wagon full of firewood. After I joined the Navy, he finally got a Chevy pickup. A 1956 standard cab long box 4X2. Very few people back then had four wheel drives. Not many had limited slip or locking differentials, either.
In my last year of high school, I drove a 1941 Chevy coupe.
Finally, in about 1975, I got my first 4X4: A 1960 Chevy K10. Just as today, I seldom put it in four wheel drive.
Yes, I now own a 4X4. Mainly because the truck I wanted was sitting on a 4X4 chassis. I would have been quite happy with a 4X2 with limited slip differential.
My snowplow ATV is 4X4. The last time I used it, I got it high centered on a snow drift, and had to use the truck to pull it out. When all four wheels are hanging in the air, the tire chains/locked rear axle/locked front axle, and four wheel drive is completely useless!
