Top Gear Strongest Truck Competition

[Prairie Dog]

I was just watching Top Gear USA (S01/Ep13) and their "strongest truck" shootout. It's pretty stupid but the only test I saw pitted the 3 trucks (all duallys) against each other for the best burn-out. I didn't see the chev but the ferd just wouldn't do it. No matter how much he tried to power brake it it just crawled away. The host, a big ferd fan, then backed the ferd up to the line and was able to get a faint spin out of it. The other hosts couldn't seem to find any lines it left behind.

They staged the Dodge, pounded it, and left 30+' of solid black lines - the tires smoking the whole way. It was truly impressive.

The host was finally able to get the ferd spinning a bit after abusing the crapola out of it and driving in circles long enough. . :-laf

 

[Sonora Goldman]

Chevy ran Circles

I hate to admit it, but the Chevy ran circles, literally, around the Ferd and Dodge in the burn out... but who cares. What I wanted to see was some real world tests such as pulling identical trailers up hills, braking etc. Also, there was no discussion as to longevity of the engines.

 

[BILLUA]

None of that means crap unless they tell us what the drives ratios and rear end gearing is on each one...

 

[Prairie Dog]

True and none of the other "tests" were the least bit meaningful either. The US version of that show is pretty idiotic but the UK version is hysterical if you ever get a chance to watch it.

 

[RonD]

Ford built the truck so it won't spin the tires, like a traction control function, the spin out test means nothing, it's how the drive and tow, and frankly GM, Ford or Ram all do it about the same.

 

[AEdelheit]

Ford built the truck so it won't spin the tires, like a traction control function, the spin out test means nothing, it's how the drive and tow, and frankly GM, Ford or Ram all do it about the same.

After towing with our 2011 F350 SRW 6. 7 at work yesterday I find it spins the tires too much when starting off, I towed 3 load 6k-11k lbs and trying to start off from a stop it was very hard to gently accelerate, give it a little throttle and it barely moves, give it just a little more and at acts like much more throttle input then you give it and spins the tires, very very annoying. Really made me appreciate the more linear torque curve and throttle mapping of our trucks.

 

[kmcdonough]

Maybe this was a different episode, but in the one I saw (big 3 dually challenge), the Ford was the burn-out winner (hate to admit it). The race car driver host was driving the Ford. Then he lost the 4WD uphill challenge up the runaway truck pit because he had no tread left from his burn-out.

 

[MannyC]

maybe im missing something

but i cannot spin the tires on my 2010 3500 srw with traction control and bfg a/t tires. it must be a stick / clutch thing. i have an anti spin rear diff.

 

[pwerwagn]

The show is dumb. Its strictly for entertainment, not information. At least Tanner is a good driver, the other two are DF's.

The british version is funny to me. And they test some cool cars. But every "challenge" i have ever seen any tv show do has always been biased, flawed or just stupid.

Unfortunately, it makes people go buy "stuff" based off that shows entertainment value.