75% of truck owners tow 1/year or less?

[Hay Dude]

My truck is only a 5.7L Hemi motor... because that's the biggest motor Ram offered that year. But my car has the 6.4L Hemi.

I was actually kind of bummed I could get the 6.4L in a car, and an SUV, but not a 1/2 ton pickup truck.

Put you in a Cummins and you won’t even remember what a gas motor was….

 

[Too many Kubotas]

have you been in a newer pickup? You are not lumbering into town, some are very fast also

Hmm. My '21 1500 is "newer" I suppose, but while it's fairly quick it is definitely not fast. Thank the 118 mph speed limiter for that.

And while I really like my Cummins, I wouldn't want one in my 1500 or the fun car.

 

[Renze]

Put you in a Cummins and you won’t even remember what a gas motor was….

Low end torque is addictive, yes...

Once had a loaner car from the garage. I merged in at the end of the on-,ramp and nearly got rear ended. I pushed the throttle at 1500rpm and nothing happened, at least not what i am used to. I first had to drop two gears

 

[Renze]

It’ll lay a set 100’ long, locked, twin black stripes.

Thats because of the weight distribution of an unloaded vehicle. Driving a chassis cab from the dealer to a body builder is even more fun

 

[lostcause]

Straight line truck torque is addictive, but since I started driving in the 80's, I've owned a handful of 4 cylinder European imports of various brands - some turbo'd, some not, and for my mileage, every one of them could put its "fun" power to to the road far better than any truck I've owned. I like the ability to put my foot down through a turn and have no fear that I will come out the other end while still on the asphalt.

Every car trumped every truck, and then in the mid-90's, I bought a Ninja 600R, followed by an FZR1000. From that point on, I lost interest in performance cars (and trucks). You would have to mortgage a house to purchase in 4 wheels what you can do for a fraction of the cost on 2 wheels. It was like the greyhound catching the rabbit. It just stopped being a concern to me.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

It doesn't really matter what I drive or ride, from 18-1/2 hp to over 700, I want to see how fast i can go through a curve with that vehicle.

In other words, it's not necessarily achieving the peak G-force number, but about how fast a given vehicle can go in a particular curve, whether it's a Lotus Super Seven or a Ram 3500.

 

[WinterDeere]

It doesn't really matter what I drive or ride, from 18-1/2 hp to over 700, I want to see how fast i can go through a curve with that vehicle.

I've personally drifted a long-bed dually C3500 over a winding stretch of road in light snow.

 

[Dftodd]

I've personally drifted a long-bed dually C3500 over a winding stretch of road in light snow.

Try it with a pallet of concrete in the bed

I've only driven one truck that would do it. It was fugly to look at, but fun to drive

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I've personally drifted a long-bed dually C3500 over a winding stretch of road in light snow.

I can relate. One time driving on a reasonably familiar dirt road I had my Pete and trailer going sideways through the curves, wanting to know how it'd handle.

Remember thinking "This is stupid" and "This is fun" in about equal amounts.

 

[WinterDeere]

Try it with a pallet of concrete in the bed

That truck was so stout, it might've been fine pulling that off. But that time we actually had half of a classic Dodge Charger cut up and stuffed into the bed. A buddy's aborted project, we were hauling to the junk yard.

Oh, and this one was f'ugly. Tailgate was shaped like a "U", because someone dropped a big (8" diameter x 10' long?) steel rod onto the tailgate from a forklift. An old company truck.