D-Max gets schooled by "old" Dodge!

[Spooled05]

Its pittiful when u cant eaven catch some one thats not eaven tryin to out run u!

 

[berman2000]

is this typical?

a friend of mine has a duratrash that i always knock..... it seems to pull pretty well, but that video is priceless! he pulls a 12k trailer with concrete panels, just like i used to do... ... ... his truck is an 06, mine was an 04... ... i thought that it was pretty even, but his was newer.

 

[CToney]

When Clessie Cummins was semi retired he gave the Cummins engineers the what for on their plans to develop a short stroke V8 diesel ie the 555 and 903. Both of which do not have the best track record. No torque, poorer fuel economy and only five mains instead of 7 you do the math. The straight six with the same bore to stroke ratios that clessie developed years ago is what we enjoy today. Some speculate about divine intervention.....

 

[MMeier]

Meier, what's the weight of that load? It's obviously just as non-aerodynamic as a backwards uhaul van! If your's pulls it without breaking a sweat in the desert, to me it just shows how the cummins motor is really designed to pull REAL loads. After all, the layout of our motors is nearly identical to the motors you find in most semi trucks only smaller.

Weight there was right around 29,000# only... , but at over 12'6" and a full 102" wide, it has "a bit more" drag then a little POS U Haul truck!! :-laf Trailer in pic is currently for sale, if anyone is interested... . cough cough!!

 

[EArp]

Weight there was right around 29,000# only... , but at over 12'6" and a full 102" wide, it has "a bit more" drag then a little POS U Haul truck!! :-laf Trailer in pic is currently for sale, if anyone is interested... . cough cough!!

Meier, the weight of the GCVR in the video was only 21700, so it makes it all the more EMBARRASSING for the DMaxes!

 

[BHaden]

more embarrassing than the d-max performance was the drivers total disregard for anyone behind him. having a heavy duty truck pass you on he right is a sign that you are probably driving like an ***.

Yeah, I had the same thought about 10 times as I watched. What kind of BOZO drives like that in the left lane? Maybe he was just being courteous to the 18 wheelers so they wouldn't have to play "DODGE-EM" when they came up behind (pun intended!!). :-laf

 

[AABEN]

This is the first time I sean the clip that wae vary good

 

[TimothyLong]

I'm on my second 5. 9L Cummins. My first was a 1998. 5 24-valve 2nd gen (like the one in the video). It was the introductory model of the 24-valve design and the first quad cab. It was a good truck and I really liked it. Except that I made the mistake of getting the short bed (as far as my usage and purposes are concerned). That's the only reason I got rid of it and got my '03 3rd Gen. I'm not really sorry about that because I absolutely love my 3rd gen! Even back then, when I originally joined TDR, it was widely accepted in the community that the Cummins was considered a medium duty engine, vice the light duty diesel engines of the competitors and was by far the best work horse of the lot. The competition had to go a long way to match power and durability of the Cummins engine. To date they've been able to match the power, but they can't get the durability. IMHO, the worst is Ford's "trash-national". That engine hasn't changed in years. It was a POS then and it's a POS now, except that Ford has added a twin turbo to the same POS engine design and it still can't match the new 6. 7L (or the reputation of the 5. 9L for that fact). Just more to break and go wrong. GM showed promise of competition with the Dura-crap (it is by far better than the old Detroit and definitely better than Ford's "trash-national"), but as you see in the video it still can't compare to the Cummins. I've been a long time fan of Chrysler/Dodge. When I was a kid, I always wanted to have a Road Runner/Super Bee like "King" Richard Petty used to drive. But it's definitely the Cummins engines that really makes the Dodge Rams. Remember, International/Navistar is/was a French owned company. To quote Capt. Jack Sparrow, "The French, inventors of mayonaise. Eunuchs, all of them!"