The Big Three's New Diesels put on a Dyno

FishOnOne wrote:

Redwoodcamper wrote:
Or maybe you don't get it. Some of you may not need the higher tow ratings or haven't truly towed heavy with your trucks. GM completely takes themselves out of the hot shot truck market, and takes themselves mostly out of the heavy equipment market by rating their trucks so low. I agree holding the "title" of highest tow ratings is stupid and useless. No pissing contest needed. But if your truck is capable of something why take yourself out of the foundation of the truck market? It's like inviting customers that won't use them hard. There are exceptions. And I actually really like the way they are to ride and drive. If I could afford to drive a truck for 150k miles and trade in or pay someone to work on it I would buy a Duramax over my ram. But for being a truck, when I'm towing two pieces of equipment up a steep gravel driveway axle hopping with 4500lbs of tongue weight and 275k miles on my truck, there is no question which truck takes the beating and which would be broken. The dmax front end would have been in pieces if I even got there towing illegally over the truck ratings.

From a safety recall standpoint the Chevy hasn't had the crazy NSHT fines on their front suspensions like the dodge/ram trucks. Ram recalls aside, front suspension work is a full time job in a ram/Chrysler shop.