Chevy’s Heavy Duty pickup truck comparison website is pretty involved. I’d say it would be almost perfect if it weren’t for the load time. I’m sitting on a pretty nice internet connection, but I think about the little guy on the other end with DSL or even *gasp* shared bandwidth or worse. I don’t want to think about what’s worse than that. (Are people still on dial up? The answer, sadly, is yes.)
Chevy’s video of head to head AMCI certified testing against the 2011 Ford Super Duty and 2011 2500 Ram HD shows everyone’s favorite football talking head, Howie Long saying ‘wow’ a lot. I’m a Chevy enthusiast (they did have the Motor Trend Truck of the Year) and I’ll admit, I’m was ready to be wowed. (The opinions of Kay Why Dee are not necessarily those of RealTruck and it’s entire staff. Believe me, we have a lot of Ford and Toyota boys workin’ here too!)
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My favorite video was the frame rigidity / frame strength test. This particular test was run 12 times by AMCI. With 3000 lbs of payload, they took the trucks up a simulated twist ditch. Something I actually encounter on sort of a frequent basis. What? You think I type all day?! They also ran a misalignment test, which wasn’t as sexy, but was pretty showy.
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Whether or not you’re a Chevy fan or not, these were pretty interesting for any pickup truck lover to watch. If you are shopping for a 2011 HD truck you should watch these for research. Yeah… research.
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