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93 Dakota vs. New Chevy SS pickup
The other day I was hopping on the interstate and one of those new Shivy SS pickups came screaming up on my rr bumper. I don't know what they are running in them but it sure ain't much. As soon as the merge ramp straightened out I accellerated moderately not necessarily looking for a race but he nailed it and whipped ot over to the left lane. That's all it took. I nailed it and I ran off and left him bad. I let off at about 85-90 and was a long way in front of him. At least 8-10 car lengths is my guess. Of course he did the ricer pass. I was really surprised to see it didn't run any better than that. My Dak only runs high 14's and by the way I ran off and left him I'd guess he'd be doing real good to get into the 15's. Saw him a couple of days later and he didn't even try again. he-he
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Don't you just love those ricer passes! Good kill! jdf
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dodge always gets under rated and shivvy always gets over rated. Didn't you know that. Just look at popular Hotroddings comments from a few years ago about a Dakota R/T running Sleepy 14's and then saying a supercharged shevy turned a blistering fast 15.85.
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Wonder if it the same one I ran. It was only up to 40 or so mph, but my stock Cherokee walked one badly one night after work this past winter. If Chevy wants to hang with the F-150 Lightening and Ram SRT-10, the better get their asses in gear, and make something close to what Ford and Dodge offer. These things aren't raced on a track like way back when, so NASCAR can't ban these monsters like they did with the aero warriors and end up stopping street car production like in the 70's.
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Those Chevy SS's are slow because of the AWD which adds more weight. Also at $40,000 plus, you won't see a lot of em on the road. I think it is a good looking truck but definitly ain't worth the money when running high 15's.
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ain't that some shit nascar implament's 358 cube's and chevy's can finally win a race. Chevy was lucky they implamented 358 cu in other wise all you would see would be 426 hemi aerobird's and 427 sohc talladega's winning race's.
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The SS was posted as running a 16.0 by Motor trends truck mag. Sad, really sad. Well, for $40,000 atleast.
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If they'd put a hotter engine in it, ditch the club cab, and monster rims they might almost have something.
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Hemi ram vs. SS
I know Motor Trend did a comparo between a Hemi Ram SC Laramie and an SS 4 door (chevy ain't got a quad cab).
The Ram was 0.1 seconds slower in the 1/4 and had a slightly slower slalom than the SS. Keep in mind....normal Ram...Beefed up SS....... $27,000 vs. $40,000 Motor Trends verdict: Save the $13,000 and buy the Ram.. |
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the ss's are deffinently something chevy did wrong. For the most part there a stock silverado with awd, and lowering, and a couple of things, there just not what anybody expected. Now when they did the concept they had a 400 horse 350 in them that woulda been a whole different story, but for now there just a waste of money
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Even with 400 horsepower, they still wouldnt be impressive. Whats 50 more horsepower when they can barely run a high 15? Low 15s still aren't going to cut it for 40k. For 7k less you can get a lightning that is more worthy of a "SS" badge or for 5k more you can get a SRT-10. If chevy wanted to release a nice, good handling, slow show truck then they shouldn't have called it a "SS". Why not just call it "RS" like they did with the good looking slow camaros produced?
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SS=Super Slow!
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