Chevy Trucks, They're Craptastic!

[GRUNHERZ]

Having both GMC and Chevy is utterly idiotic for GM, but hey thats GM.  Thankfully they have been culling useless brands of late so there is hope yet...

[rpm]

I was just about to say the same thing wombatt. They build them both in Arlington, Tx. It was part of the deal to keep the plant open after they stopped producing rear wheel drives cars there. There is no difference other than the badges. I can't say about the fleetside beds being steel or plastic, maybe Pongo can tell us, but I guarantee the dually beds are plastic. As far as Mojo...that's all in your head.

[J_A_B]

"It was part of the deal to keep the plant open after they stopped producing rear wheel drives cars there."


Sadly, those cars you mention (late-model B-bodies) were probably the best cars GM has ever built, utterly superior to ANY sedans they're building a decade later.  They stopped making them so they could build more "craptacular" trucks.  

But then, discontinuing their best products and replacing them with inferior vehicles is a longstanding GM tradition.


J_A_B

[GRUNHERZ]

The mid 1990s Impala SS is the only one of the big dumb US cars I'd ever consider drving...

[Pongo]

There is a difference. The grills and headlights are ugly on the chevys. Thats why I got a GMC.

[Meatwad]

Have an 85 chevy S10 out in the yard, it sucks.  nothing bot problems. My car is a ford though, never had one bit of trouble with it.

[Rude]

Trouble comes with all brands.

I have a small fleet of work trucks and have bought trucks for our shopping centers for 25 years....Chevy's have served us well and have outperformed Fords, especially under heavy work loads such as hauling sand spreaders and plowing snow.

Sounds like your brother in law got a bad one....I have two fords now and they have served their purpose....they require alot more maintenance than Chevy's, but they do have a better looking truck for sure.

Just bought an 05 2500HD for one of my guys....I'll get 100k miles out of it without any major problems I'm sure. Alot depends on the person driving it and how it's maintained.

[A_Clown]

And I can tell you all makes brake down. I have towed literally hundreds of relatively new Dodge trucks in with blown transmissions. GMs have great drive trains, but all the lil stuff breaks like switch levers, door handles and things like that.

In my Ten years of towing I drove many different styles, makes and models of commercial grade trucks. BY far, and I mean VERY far, the hardest working, and most reliable, with fewest breakdowns was the UD which is made by Nissan. The turbo 6 cyl. motor has more power than any ford diesel I ever drove. The only truck I drove that had more power was a ford Triton V10, and when it was working that hard, it got like 4 MPG. Not to mention the life expectancy of gas engines Vs Diesel. The gas truck was purchased specifically for 1 type of tow, illegally parked cars in Mobile Estate Complexes, (needed to be very quiet).

I'm not very happy about the fact that I think Nissan makes a better commercial truck than the US, but it's true. Not many Dodge Tow trucks out there, thats got to be an indication of a weakness of some kind.

I'm going to keep my 76 fleetside 1/2 ton Chevy for ever! It was my first truck, and its a nice lil hotrod it doesn't do much work except tow my lil 18' boat to the lake. And theres no way I would put my 22" Pirellis in any mud

A_Clown

[wombatt]

When they start putting catapiller engines in light trucks then we will have something.

I will say the international that the ford runs is a good engine.
We had them in our Ambulances and we ran the crap out of them things day and night.

[G0ALY]

I'm driving a 1993 Chevy 1500 work truck with a V-6. It has 230,000 miles and I still put 400 miles a week on it.

I've never been too fussy about maitnance. I try to change the oil 3 times a year... and it still has the original automatic tranny fluid...

Sometimes you just get a good one.