2013 Light Duty Challenge

[ib516]

2013 Light Duty Challenge

Ram Hemi 8 speed vs Ecoboost F150 vs new 5.3L Gm twins & more!

[Hannibal]

All this good stuff has me thinking F150 heavy duty payload with 3.5L Ecoboost to tow our 8500 lb 5th wheel and give quite a bit better fuel mileage on my work route as well. I can't wait to see what's next!

[RoyJ]

BeerCan wrote:
Do people really care if their truck, when towing, goes from 0-40 in 12 seconds or 16 seconds? What's next 1/4 mile times with a 5er? sheesh

Problem with that argument is you can turn it the other way: do people care about 16 vs 20 sec? 20 vs 25 sec? 25 vs 30 sec?

Next thing you know we have a truck with 90 hp. Where do you draw the line?

Myself, given the choice, would rather take progress and go forward a bit at a time.

[45Ricochet]

sheesh I guess LD trucks news have gone the way of the 6.0 threads, short.

[sele]

spoon059 wrote:

gmcsmoke wrote:
You can't tow 8500 pounds with a half ton....read it on rv.net

You can't do much of anything but get groceries and apparently have a very small penis if you have a half ton... read it on rv.net too.

the older i get the more it shrinks no wait my belly is getting bigger lol

[BeerCan]

Do people really care if their truck, when towing, goes from 0-40 in 12 seconds or 16 seconds? What's next 1/4 mile times with a 5er? sheesh

[Buck50HD]

Nice to see my "old" 2012 still has it. Can't wait to see the 2015 F150 with HD payload option and an updated ecoboost that still won't even be close to the price premium and gas expense of a 6.2. Also, most likely DI on the 5.0 with added HP/TQ/MPG.

[spoon059]

gmcsmoke wrote:
You can't tow 8500 pounds with a half ton....read it on rv.net

You can't do much of anything but get groceries and apparently have a very small penis if you have a half ton... read it on rv.net too.

[gmcsmoke]

You can't tow 8500 pounds with a half ton....read it on rv.net

[Taco]

I have two things to say.

1)Pickuptrucks.com is a bunch of sissies giving into political correctness changing from a "shootout" to a challenge.

2) in 2013 the top gas half tons pulling 8500 went 0-40 in around 12 seconds. in 2010 in the heavyduty SHOOTOUT the ford 6.7 powerstroke and CTD went 0-40 in 16 seconds towing 10k lbs. So a half ton handles power wise 8500 better than a diesel handles 10k. I would even go so far as to say the half tons have a decent shot of beating the diesels with 10k giving how big of an advantage they showed with only 1500 less lbs.

[Dadoffourgirls]

harmanrk wrote:

Dadoffourgirls wrote:
GM has three plants. Fort Wayne, Silao MX, and Flint.

Thank you, I had mistaken Flint for Pontiac. I'm still cannot remember which was the fourth, that was either closed or switched to other production.

Pontiac Truck was closed. Arlington has all the fullsize SUVs.

[harmanrk]

Dadoffourgirls wrote:
GM has three plants. Fort Wayne, Silao MX, and Flint.

Thank you, I had mistaken Flint for Pontiac. I'm still cannot remember which was the fourth, that was either closed or switched to other production.

[Dadoffourgirls]

harmanrk wrote:

ib516 wrote:
Interesting thing I didn't know about the GM trucks....

"The final tally for our Victory Red Silverado 1500 built in Silao, Mexico, was $44,715."

...our Fire Red Sierra 1500 made in Silao, Mexico, finished at $43,720.

Is GM making all of their 1500 series trucks in Mexico now?

The RAM is made in Michigan -- I thought they were made in Mexico too. :h

GM had four truck plants before the bankrupacy. They had scheduled to close two of them, but as sales have picked back up, they may still have three. Fort Wayne, Silao MX, Pontiac? and Arlington?

Ford has two that I know of, Dearborn, and Kansas City

Dodge has two as well, Warren, and Saltillo MX

GM has three plants. Fort Wayne, Silao MX, and Flint.

[harmanrk]

ib516 wrote:
Interesting thing I didn't know about the GM trucks....

"The final tally for our Victory Red Silverado 1500 built in Silao, Mexico, was $44,715."

...our Fire Red Sierra 1500 made in Silao, Mexico, finished at $43,720.

Is GM making all of their 1500 series trucks in Mexico now?

The RAM is made in Michigan -- I thought they were made in Mexico too. :h

GM had four truck plants before the bankrupacy. They had scheduled to close two of them, but as sales have picked back up, they may still have three. Fort Wayne, Silao MX, Pontiac? and Arlington?

Ford has two that I know of, Dearborn, and Kansas City

Dodge has two as well, Warren, and Saltillo MX

[ib516]

Interesting thing I didn't know about the GM trucks....

"The final tally for our Victory Red Silverado 1500 built in Silao, Mexico, was $44,715."

...our Fire Red Sierra 1500 made in Silao, Mexico, finished at $43,720.

Is GM making all of their 1500 series trucks in Mexico now?

The RAM is made in Michigan -- I thought they were made in Mexico too. :h

[harmanrk]

ib516 wrote:
Autocross (handling)

So both the Ford and the Nissian did the Autocross challenge quicker with 1000 pound of dead weight? Were they using some kind of single run testing or what? I like trucks that keep going faster the more weight you put in them. If we hook them to the space shuttle like Toyota did, they could go for land speed records.

Or maybe this group needs to learn when you try to produce scientific and statistial data, and there is obviously something wrong with a sample you throw it out, and remeasure.