I'm not a diesel guy and I like Ram and GMC equally and hate Ford so that's my bias. But the dmax is rated at what, 150 lb/ft of torque less than the cummins, and pretty much tows the same as the others? Nothing wrong what GMC is doing IMHO. It has always been the underdog, rated to pull less, but TFL has done several tests of these trucks and in the previous gens the dmax walked away from the others. Ford has the advantage now though.
Back in 2012 when I left Colorado, I really wanted to try being a diesel guy for a change but since car dealerships won’t help you out that much on financing a vehicle that has over 100,000 miles on it, I didn’t want to take a chance on everything being OK once I got to my new state and found a job when I got my divorce but with no down payment on a 2006 ram three-quarter ton with the Cummins that only had about 124,000 miles on it, on a three-year loan, it was going to cost me well over $550 a month so I just settled on the halfton with the hemi that I traded my car in for.
I don’t know if the Duramax is still like it was before but at least before, they seemed to be the only V-8 diesel that still got a pretty good fuel mileage when you weren’t trying to squeeze every bit of power out of it but that power stroke on the other hand, everybody that I know or have known that has one or has had one of those that no matter what they do to them whether they’re working or not, they suck the fuel down.
But yeah Phord may have the crown now but with these borderline childish horsepower wars, it’ll be Ram or GMC/Chibby next but at least Ram and the Cummins was the first one to surpass a thousand foot pounds of torque… LOL. Now I just wonder which ones gonna be the first one to break over the 500 hp mountain.
It’s funny, I wonder why it even matters anymore who has the most powerful diesel because 10, 15 years ago, people were tickled pink to be able to squeeze 650, 750 even in some cases, upwards of 900 foot pounds of torque out of your common diesel pick up that nowadays, you just go to the dealership and buy one. Of course, you got to get one with all that California emissions crap on it but, straight out of the factory, it oughta be able to do everything you need to do.
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