RE: Member Photos
January 3, 2018 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2018 at 9:38 am by A Theist.)
(January 3, 2018 at 6:03 am)pocaracas Wrote:Every household should have a truck, even if it's a small utility truck as Thump has. Once you get a truck you'll wonder how you ever got along without one. If you do a lot of yard work at your home a truck would be far better than a car trunk to haul a bunch of mulch back and forth from your home to the place you buy your landscaping stuff. In my truck I can get everything in one load, actually saving me gas. Or, if you buy a piece of furniture, put it in the back of the truck and save yourself a delivery bill. Trucks are an investment and they hold their value for quite a long time.(January 3, 2018 at 5:45 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Going up and back to D/FW over Christmas, I ran about 17 mpg -- but much of it at 80 mph, not the sweet spot for a truck. I'll either get a tonneau or a netgate, eventually.
17mpg?...
My Ford Fiesta would give me something closer to 40mpg. Sure, it's not a truck... but did you really have to haul a truck to where you were going?
I wish to one day have an EV and leave the mpg measure behind me forever.
(January 3, 2018 at 5:45 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:and no doubt, much more torque for the climb than your Ford has.(January 3, 2018 at 5:23 am)A Theist Wrote: It sounds like a good trade off, performance over mileage. At the moment I drive an older GMC full size 1500 with a 4.3/ 6. To me it's still under powered. I drive the freeway a lot and I've encountered many situations where I need the extra horses. But a 6 in your light truck seems like it could scoot along the freeways with ease. Another good thing with your new truck over your Ford, if you're going to haul anything it's not going to struggle against a load as your 4 cyl Ford would. In that respect, it would do better on gas.
Well, mine's not a work truck, just light utility/household stuff. But yeah, a fullsize with a six just don't seem right.
Going up and back to D/FW over Christmas, I ran about 17 mpg -- but much of it at 80 mph, not the sweet spot for a truck. I'll either get a tonneau or a netgate, eventually.
(January 3, 2018 at 5:23 am)A Theist Wrote: I've had a few Fords when I did roofing, an F 350 1 ton with a Cleveland 351 modified, the F 250 with its 302 small block, and an '80 F 100 with a 300 straight 6. All three of those trucks were grossly underpowered. I finally test drove a Chevy truck some years back that had a 350 that was backed up by a 4spd manual. Talk about power. I thought I was driving a muscle car!
Yeah, all those sound like they'd be huffing up the hills here. Remind me some time to take a pic or two, the roads here are very three-dimensional, elevation varying 700-800 foot inside half-a-mile at points. My Ranger would run out of breath halfway up them. That's a big thing about this Nissan -- I've got power enough to get out of tight spots better.
It's all a trade-off, as you already know.
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