2013 Light Duty Shootout...

[Prince Valiant]

Ford vs Ram vs Chevy vs GMC vs Toyota vs Nissan.

It includes the all-new 2014 chevy/gmc twins....

http://special-reports.pickuptrucks.com/2013-light-duty-challenge.html

It's from Pickuptruck.com, partnering with one of my favorite magazine's, Popular Mechanics to conduct the test. They don't get the fastest times, using ordinary measures to achieve acceleration, braking, handling and fuel mileage numbers.

The players, in alphabetical order, all 4x4:

2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT Z71 Crew Cab: 5.3 ecotec, 3.42 gears
2013 Ram 1500 SLT Big Horn Crew Cab: 5.7 Hemi, 3.55's
2013 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew: 3.5 ecoboost, 3.73's
2014 GMC Sierra 1500 SLE Z71 Crew Cab: 5.3 ecotec, 3.42's
2013 Nissan Titan Pro-4X Crew Cab: 5.6 v8, 3.36's
2013 Toyota Tundra SR5 CrewMax: 5.7 v8, 4.30's

It's a good read...doesn't really trash any truck, since they basically all are very good trucks...though some of the older ones (Nissan) are really showing how far trucks have come of late.

(Of note, when the 2015 Nissan does come out, it will have a light-duty cummins turbo-diesel available :wooo)

[Flicktitty]

I wonder why they didn't use the new 2014 Tundra in this test? odd they allowed the new 14 Chevy / GMC. but not the redesigned Tundra.

I don't think Ford/Nissan/Dodge did any major changes for 14 like Toyota did. It is Also kind of funny that the article said this about the Tundra "As a small piece of advice, we'd suggest giving some serious thought to updating and modifying this truck's powertrain and chassis choices soon." Yet it was within .1-.3 seconds of all the 0-60 tests. In a powertrain that is going on 6 years old.

Although i'm not surprised one bit that Ford won. the new F150 is a GREAT truck.

[Prince Valiant]

I wonder why they didn't use the new 2014 Tundra in this test? odd they allowed the new 14 Chevy / GMC. but not the redesigned Tundra. My guess one probably wasn't available when they did their testing back in late may. It was only late July that the new Tundra began being available for first drives, much less full-on road test.

That said, the powertrain's, tow/haul ratings, mileage all remain unchanged for the 2014 tundra...styling and interior were the big changes for the 14's. Also, the only 2014's in the test were the chevy/gmc twins...the rest were 13's. Aside from improving judges impressions of the tundra's styling and interior, it's unlikely that the 14's would have improved it's score enough to overtake the 4th place GMC.

My only disappointment with the test was that they requested a truck capable of 8500lbs towing for which the test would use and everyone sent; but then they proceeded to reward those that sent "max-towing" packages. Part of the score (and the reason the ford won overall) was rated tow capacities. The Ram won more measured performance categories than the ford (6 to 3, 1 being a tie b/w the two), and won 2 of 3 subjective categories, but getting docked for not having the higher tow/payload-ratings despite tying the ford in towing 0-60 acceleration and beating it by 1.3 seconds in 0-40 acceleration up a 7.2% grade while towing 8500lbs. Up until the "calculated ratings section," the Ram was cleaning the ford's clock, despite that it's low, non-max tow equipped ratings clearly didn't harm it's actual tow performance.

[Flicktitty]

Thats true the drive train remained untouched for 2014, i can't imagine that for 2015 they wont have a new engine/trans.

[tbarsch]

Also of note: it has been rumored that the new 2014 Colorado and Canyon will have a late year diesel engine option. Rumored specs are 350 ft/lbs of torque and 36 mpg. I know these are smaller trucks than the comparison, but thought it was noteworthy.

[Prince Valiant]

Also of note: it has been rumored that the new 2014 Colorado and Canyon will have a late year diesel engine option. Rumored specs are 350 ft/lbs of torque and 36 mpg. I know these are smaller trucks than the comparison, but thought it was noteworthy.If this comes to pass, this means that by model year 15 you'll have at least 4 different 1/2 ton or smaller trucks to get diesels in...Titan, Ram, and the colorado twins.

[88Nightmare]

I wish the half ton mini duramax wasn't shelved, however, with the price tag it could have, I would think one would just go ahead and get the HD duramax for not much more