the only Chevy engine worth a **** is the 8.1 V8 and it doesnt' come in 1500s otherwise I might have bought one

 

Yea but you'd be lucky to get half the gas milage of our trucks with that motor. I'd rather have the Hemi myself. My uncle's 3rd gen 4x4 QC gets to 100mph in no time! Maybe when I get out of college...

 

Trucks are for hauling cargo, not for hauling ***.

 

my 360 does the job for me, keeps the hondas, chevys and fords in their place, the stock 4.10 gears probhelp

 

professional comparisons by the same reviewer
for many 1999 pickups here:

http://www.theautochannel.com/vehicl...iews/1999.html

if a vehicle you are interested in is not tested in 1999,
try the 1998 and 2000 reviews.

 

your comparing the work truck level, small V8 of a dodge to the high end, nice truck of ford (biggest V8). compare the 5.2 to their 4.6 (like someone else said)

 

That's still not fair...you have to compare equal displacement or more specifically what they make HP per liter. As I mentioned before, comparing an older 1999 Ram that is near the end of it's production life to a brand new gen Chevrolet isn't fair. Year by year is going to be different because the model changes seldom occur on the same year. With the second gen Dodge, the first two years it was at the top of its game until GM had the 5.7 Vortec, then Ford had the 5.4L after that, then Dodge rebuttled with the Hemi, then GM with th 6.0L which only brought GM to the same level as Dodge, and Ford has yet to make a move. Again, this is a year by year change and using 1999 heavily disfavors the Dodge.

On top of it, I have no idea why you would want to compare medium displacement engines? I'd rather just compare nice truck to nice truck and compare the engines that better represent each brand. The 5.3L for 1999 is fair for GM (to compare to a 2nd gen Dodge would make more sense to use the 5.7L), the 5.4L is fair for the Ford, but the 5.2L is a smaller engine than the model line offered. I understand trying to compare even displacement, but when the 2nd gen Dodge was created, GM was @ 5.7L, Ford @ 5.8L, and Dodge @ 5.9L. There's a comparison. Since then, all manufacturers have decreased displacement. So when you show a relatively large displacement 5.9L developed in the early 90's compared to more modern smaller displacement engines with new technologies, of course it looks odd. But they can only design an engine to compete with the competition at the time, not the new generation engines that hadn't been created which you are comparing it with.

 

2v 4.6 for ford.

despite the fact that diffrent companies were in diffrent stages of devolopment, thats what was offered during that production year, a fact that is undisputable. So with that in mind, compair the 5.9 vs 5.3 vs 5.4, and to top it off you can also whoop up on them by compairing the 8.0, seeing how thats the biggest gas engine, in compairison to the other companies gas engines. Im pritty sure dodge wins.