Just a small correction, the Silverado SS is significantly more expensive than the Lightning. Projected base price on the SS is $38K, the MSRP of the lightning is only about $32,600.

If you don't understand or want a sport truck, that is your perogative. Just as it is mine to have one and like it. BTW, don't blast it before you try it. I have never met one person who has driven one and not liked it. They are much more fun than a fast car. There is just something about 4800lbs of real truck that can accelerate and handle like a sports car that blows your mind.



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Oh good lord....you obviously haven't met me then....trucks are tools, period.

I don't even look twice at these bloated "sport trucks'....what a joke.

Tell you what, bring your overweight Lightning out to the road track someday and I'll show you the tailights of an Z/28...but look quick, I'll be the one laughing as they pull you out of the ditch.

BTW, this is CamaroZ28.com...so I don't really care to talk anymore about trucks...


[This message has been edited by Doug Harden, Pres CICC (edited September 08, 2002).]

 

Put me in the category of "one who just doesn't understand".

If 4800 lbs is fun does that make 5800lbs more fun? What about 9800lbs....that must be a total blast!?

I have always felt (am I alone here?) that a lighter car is more fun. It handles better...it accelerates better...it brakes better. Just imagine how fun that 4800lb truck might be if it went on a 2000lbs diet!

Am I missing something? Someone please explain this to me.

 

I'm not much for trucks myself. But the F-150 Lightning is faster than anything from GM anymore anyways, save for what, the Corvette?

I think that there was just hope that GM would come up with SOMETHING fast, because hey, they might not give us fast cars, but GM's bread and butter is trucks, right?

Then they half *** even that, just leaving us disappointed again.

Not as many people would care about the Silverado SS if GM hadn't abandoned cars, but they have, and then they half *** trucks.

*shrug*

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if car companies made more RWD cars then less people would have the get trucks to get their RWD fix.

Lightnings are also faster than LT1's and every other new car under 50 grand but the Vette and Cobra

 

I'll give 94Lightning gal some credit- she made some good points before you guys flamed her.

I suppose all you can't stand Typoons and Syclones eh?

I never owned a truck- but my friend has sortbox reg cab Z71- I like it.

I really like the looks of the Siverado SS-
(except the for the ext cab) and the PRICE!
Lightnings are cool- unlike curent GM offereings (except the Vette)

 

Well, I don't have an LT1.....I have a Stage II 383 LT4 + a lot of mods like Baer Pro+ brakes, Koni DA's, etc....so her bloated Lightning will be a faint vision in my rear view mirror.....and no, I didn't like the Typhoons either...why bother putting good motors in heavy trucks??...I like cars.....trucks are like a shovel to me...you can move some dirt, but when I want to drive, give me a car.

Let's not hijack this thread any longer.....you'll never change my mind and I don't care to change yours.....but I would like to get back to talking about cars and leave the truck talk for the truck drivers....:rollseyes:


[This message has been edited by Doug Harden, Pres CICC (edited September 09, 2002).]

 

Different strokes for different folks. Look how many people go ga-ga over the 94-96 Impys when they could have got a better LT1 in an FBody for probably less money and a lot less weight.

(not picking on the b-body guys, just using you as an example. I love the fact that companies offer(ed) several different types of performace platforms. My next vehicle will be a Typhoon).

 

Oooook, heeere we go .

Are you attempting to say that a 2 and a half ton truck with a center of gravity over 2 feet off the ground handles like a sports car?? There is a streach of California Highway 1 going towards Monterey to test that view keeping while up with my less fun sports car. Or if that's a little too unnerving there's Interstate 8 at the San Diego/Imperial county line, comming down off the mountain, headed to El Centro.

I had a Ford F100 as a teenager, a Ranger (my ex's actually), and yes, I've ridden in a Lightning a few times. Yes it's fast, yes it handles way better than I'd say any truck out there, and as I said before, I even think it's a pretty nice vehicle.

But to understate the obvious, it's a bit of a reach (to put it politely) to compare it with a sports car.

On the other point, if Silverado will in fact be going for $38K, then I will agree completely with you that the-cheaper-than-Cobra Lightning is a far better deal. For that money GM should at least make a modern version of a Cyclone out of it.

 

BTW, I loved Cyclones & Typhoons (shocked, right?).

But like some human characteristics, there IS such a thing as too big!

 

Hello?

have you guys forgot that the Silverado SS is AWD as in...you just need to add a bit more HP to blow the doors off the Lightning and a lot more to do it to the RAM...

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Off the line, AWD has an advantage. But it disappears very quickly as speeds build and the added drag of the AWD powertrain & the extra weight begin to work against it.

A similarly powered SS would beat the Lightning off the line, but as the Lightning hooked up, the Ford would still soundly trounce the SS well before the end of the quarter mile.

 

However, Chevy could remedy that with a simple factory installed supercharger.

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screw that.. why don't they just use the new 8.1L V8 and tune it.. shove that in a shortbed reg cab, an option to keep the AWD, and call it a 496SS! (is that what it is in CI?)