Best Half-Ton Towing Truck! Ford F-150 vs GM 1500 vs Ram 1500 vs World's Toughest Towing Test

Guys, I'm so excited for this year's 20-19 Gold Hitch Towing Competition. This is the closest competition with the newer

truck

s. Oh, the one I have is really fun. We're here in the cold in the mountains with three cool

truck

s. We're all new, that's right, how did you get the colors to match? I have no idea, but we have the all-new 2019 GMC Sierra, we have the all-new 2019 Ram

1500

, and of course the all-new Ford f-150, all three. most popular trucks and we'll come down the mountain and jump the mountain and find out which truck provides the

best

with 90 100 pounds of

towing

and over 11,000 feet of lift that the train was using today for the start of our I con

test

.

The gauntlet is Northstar's Cimarron. It's a side by side made for big horses. Tall horses are thoroughbreds. Sport horses. A large ramp at the rear that is integrated into the door. A ramp on the side. It is integrated into the door. Take them off with beautiful aluminum wheels. It is an aluminum trailer. Look at the welds. It belongs to a museum. It's just beautiful. We have it loaded with the water bags there for a total weight of ninety and one hundred pounds. The trailer and ballast are In the implement room at the front of this North Star Cimarron trailer, we loaded Cimarron, we loaded center blocks here, we weighed everything we wanted to get our tongue weight to the 10% that we are, it's a trailer of ninety and one hundred pounds total and our tongue weight is very close to 900 pounds, maybe this is the big boy's lunch here.

The other tube has dynamic fuel management, but it's a 6.2 liter. Yes, the largest V8 has the most power of the three and you know, it's kind of a 10-speed. It has everything you want and a new modern truck, and this is all new, miss, it has aluminum components, so it runs on 420 horsepower, 400 or Speier 460 torque and it has a routine axle ratio of 342, which is the maximum tow package for this. so it's made for what we're doing here in the highlands, yes, and like the others, it's four wheel drive, yes, and low range, we're measuring downhill performance the same way we have done in previous years.

We exit the tunnel at 50 miles per hour at the top of the mountain and if the truck exceeds this speed limit of 60 miles per hour on the way down, we apply the brakes gently to reduce the speed to 50 and then count the applications of brake on each truck. We are not using manual shift mode. We want the truck in the transmission computer to think for itself and control the truck and trailer down the mountain. In the case of this GMC Sierra, the 10-speed automatic transmission is manufactured. to this 6.2 liter v8 and it is a very smooth shifting transmission.

Yes, it was co-developed with the 4/10 speed, but for the GM truck it has some unique components and unique tuning, it was very smooth but not aggressive enough. 10 brake applications in In the end we hope for a slightly better result, but let's see how the mountain climbs. It's cool how we got all three to be the same color, right, it was a mistake, it's just luck, but I'll tell you very different styles. I like the RAM, it's a little smaller, it's less flashy, the GMC is the opposite, it's like a damn hockey mask in comparison, it comes after you and then the Ford is somewhere in the middle now in terms of style, well, obviously, Ford.

It sticks to super solid lines and overall has a much more chiseled look which some people like. I like the overall design of the GMC, except it's strange the way the fog lights are recessed in there, they don't look like they fit. right, the ram is my favorite in terms of a cohesive design and a really good profile, uphill icons and GMC Dublin and now okay, where we said you had the stopwatch, yeah, roll, okay, let's go up the mountain, like this that the icon is folded. An eight mile stretch with a 7% grade and we're going over 11,000 158 feet above sea level, that's right, that's huge, yes, that's what makes it so difficult, it's really the thin air, the difficult climb, all that, all in one and the heavy load.

Absolutely, today we're shedding 90,100 pounds, we're not maxing out the trailer weight of these trucks, but the payload is maxed out and it's this thin area that doesn't have turbos, the air really takes its toll, but this is a powerful engine. . Do you know that since then it has been automatic and its major is 6.2? Now this is the 6.2 has cylinder deactivation, yeah, so your highway and everything you're not pushing too hard, you build a problem for the setup or v2 for me to lose the journal, yeah. It used to be four to eight a day, now it had 17 different settings, right, first they told us one and they said it vibrates so little that it doesn't, so let's measure the sound next time, you really have to step on it, so I want to measure your booth sound like we always do and this ooh whoa he's actually part of it, he actually collapsed on this land that's really dangerous guys, but if he stops right now, I'm gonna measure the sound scared at 67, 7 decibels, let me write it down, yeah. that was like 4600 rpm which is as high as this truck has gone yeah 46 Mayers these don't need another three headed toy in there now we know they're all available the RAM is available the Horde is available and somewhere This winter the new GMC will be available with a larger tow mirror, this glass measures 10 inches, which is almost the widest glass in its class, but this chamber here is 5 inches, which is the largest reach, which eliminates some of that blind spot, especially on the other side. so the mayor is further away, has less of a blind spot, is a good looking Mary, great for

towing

and then, but this bolts on like most pickups do both with the window glass, the window frame, this is how it attaches on this Ford mirror, the glass measures eight inches horizontally and the reach here is three, so you have a little help with the blind spot and this also mounts to the window frame and units, that's the standard mirror until 2019, the new GMC, the marriage is a little different, they are not. mounted on the window glass, they're mounted down on the door, it's a more expensive way to do it, but they did it to achieve this blind spot, especially on the other side, now this one has four and a

half

inch glass.

About two and a

half

inches hit your blind spot there, so they're not the largest mirrors, but this is the standard mirror. All this has been very good. Today in two trailers we have been able to see all sides and these. There are horse dealers that are not as wide, about six feet wide, so they are closer to the body with these trucks, so why don't we use the cruise control policy? I make the policy, it is Andrés, this is Andrés' decision, it is because many of the trucks cannot. keep cruise control at this load we are stressing these trucks quite a bit we are monitoring temperatures so the gauges measure coolant temperature basically in the middle around 210 degrees so the transmission tab can be seen now same on the gauges at 192 where if the time remains stable I will simply stop, so we are almost at the end of the GMC's journey and we are monitoring the fuel economy as the trip meter tells us and the time now stops three point eight. right there with the benchmark at eight minutes and one second, which is basically a benchmark, so these new rear doors have electric opening in this GMC it has a button, they have a lot of things.

I want to show this black thing where you're going, wait, you know what? this part of the tailgate, if it were to fall, it could hit, oh it would, so there's not a lot of room, so you have to take into account how much room you have with the tongue, okay, let's talk about trailers, okay, starting off, turning, turning, keep going. Boot I wish you had a power tack someday so this will be a little different than GMC when it comes to squats that's true the GMC squatted in inches which is good for 9,000 lbs. Now the nice thing about the ram is this air ride for a corner air so this will actually fit the trailer so we have to do things a little bit different on the hitch so we can level the trailer because it will still level the stuff and what's really cool, I thought it might be a top secret battering ram, but if you put this in door entry mode, it lowers the truck, which makes them your hook for the ball.

I love that my aerial vehicles do that on my other trucks. Check it out, the truck is lifting on its own, finally the air suspension is helping. Let's get out okay, let's put the tailgate down and see how it goes, but oh my God, look at it. Oh same gap here yeah but this is a single tailgate not double like on the GMC cable don't let go yeah why are they loose? That's a 5.7-liter Hemi that makes 395 horsepower and 410 feet of torque. I love that Hemi. I'm very glad they kept it. This one has that cool sound.

This is also a 392 we're in, so it has a trigger tone shaft. It's an 8 speed automatic, you guys got the rotary dial right. I like that rotating dial. I'm used to all those other controls around them, they turn off auto start/stop and their all-wheel drive systems. Everything around the knob makes it really convenient. You know what's really interesting about you mention auto start/stop and well that's part of the e tort system in this house? I love that system because it's basically an electric motor that helps you start from a standstill, yes, it has a big serpentine belt that goes to the crank and when it heats up it stops and starts directly from the crankshaft, that's cool technology, it has an electric fan, all this cool stuff, and therefore four-wheel drive, yes, in fact, this new Ram has an 8 two-speed automatic transmission, while the other two trucks have ten speeds and we originally expected that The 8-speed will work a little better on descents because it has more space between the gears;

However, although it was quick and smooth to shift, it was not developed enough. rpm to reduce the speed of the trailer in a very aggressive way, so once again ten brake applications for the RAM, it is the same result we got with the GMC Sierra, very peculiar, although with the Hemi you could hear the engine a little more, so you get more feedback. from the transmission there are still 10 brake applications, let's see why having good visibility is an important part of towing and these three trucks have many advantages when it comes to cameras, the RAM for example has a 360, this one has a 12 inches. screen on the inside, but there's a camera mounted here on the front grill that gives you a full 360-degree view, but come here this way on the fourth, it's a very similar camera here on the grill, cameras under both mirrors like on the RAM, but here In the gym, see, the story is a little different because this truck has a max tow package, it's actually missing the front camera, it does have the side camera, so you still have that view, but go back because I'm going to show you the extra cameras for the trailer when you get that trailer package, you get these two extra plugs for the camera and you can put that camera on the back of the trailer.

We are actually inside the horse trailer, for example, well, yes, yes, now we are. It's a good time, hear that Hemi growl, that's nice, it has a more pronounced sound, yeah, it definitely sounds a little sporty. Damn, this thing is flying, yeah, you made it at full speed. Well, did you eat or do anything to help? the speed because we were already moving and I thought you really talked you just didn't sing off the line correctly the torque shouldn't make a difference the way they eat our quirks as soon as you're in the meat of the gasoline engine grievance, yeah , the electric motor doesn't do anything right so it just shuts down, what it's doing is giving you a little bit of extra push down the line, yeah, and we just know the throttle or what we take to get up to speed, yeah.

I feel like every time you drove it you felt that hope, no, but I felt like the start and stop is smooth, yeah, because when you chew on that, yeah, the start and stop actually moves out of that transition initially, but I never felt it. like it really punches you, you know power, next time I shift gears again, let's listen to this now, it's actually at 65.2 7, it's a little bit quieter, but there's a little bit more noise. I don't understand the national one. lower spot it's like a little bit slower but it's a scream, these are higher rpm, we can be around 51 or whatever, when you're doing that

test

, the throttle is a lot higher, 960, okay, we're getting there, getting there There, guys, I'll do it all. let you down by 500 far from the linered, she really has this round to run, it really feels like it speed wise, she's close to each other, okay, are you almost ready and stop the clock in RAM now that we're both slower? 4.7 mpg So what was the time? 8:05, four seconds slower, which is really good, a little further for seven miles per gallon, that's me, that's a lot, that's a better result than Canada 4.7 mpg, yeah, the other one was what three It was great, how is this? button and gee, is this the one you can blow this letter with a keychain, but no, it didn't hit the jack, it may be a little closer than the RAM and the GMC were, but pretty close, just remember, make sure Jack not driving around here, that would have been tragic.

This is also the one that you can fold, so you just have to know things about how to connect to your trailer. Okay, let's see what it is. Can you turn off the engine? Alright, so I measured before and after on both sides, okay, here we have a little over 37, we were just under 40, so this is three inches squat, this is an inch more than the GMC and the team remnant because it had air suspension. I double check the other side to make sure. Oh, look, that's a good idea, it's still about thirty-seven and a quarter, so almost the three.inch squat on the Ford, look, there's a fun part, right?

The three and a half liter ecoboost v-6 has a small displacement among these, yes, but it also has two turbos and the most torque and has dual injection. 375 horsepower and 478 torque came from a ten-speed automatic. I hope you get over it and of course it's a 4x4. All three of these trucks are four-wheel drive and we found them with drive, that's true, it's a 355 rear end, okay, yeah. It is now a tow toy, you have ten speeds the first two or quite low, that 355 is enough axle for a trail, finally, the f-150 with ten speeds, we tested a ten speed EcoBoost combination before in previous years and We hope Ford may have improved some of the calibration and tuning of this transmission for the downhill portion of the test.

Yes, this transmission was developed jointly with GM, but in this case it was incorporated into a much smaller displacement engine, supercharged and with different adjustment at the end I can't believe this same result 10 brake applications, although the EcoBoost kept the RPM a slightly higher than the big v8, still the same result in terms of brakes when going down the mountain. I can't believe it at least I have 10 trucks that's what call them at

1500

s and 150s these are not the tallest trucks even though this Ram has a factory when it slipped with the off road package but they all have ways of getting you there to the cabin and the box, different things that help you in this. one here has the automatic running board that opens when you open the door, opens the running board down so you can get in there and then move out of the way to ride off the road.

It has a step in the back, you press a button. and it falls on a step so you can use it to climb over the back door, that's good now a Ford also the 150 has the running board that folds with the door and it's very cool how they do it and then right behind the La cab has a little step, it's a little bit bigger step, you kick it and it falls and you can turn around and climb into your cross tool box or get into your bed, which is nice, you have two of these trucks, you know? , or they continue to rise. higher, but that helps you with that now the GMC has a fixed running board and what's unique is that it goes almost all the way to the rear wheel, which means you can stand up to get into your crossover toolbox, reach your bed and do it. that Had that, I think it's really unique, it's on the bumper tape, he also made the step on the bumper, the rear bumper, a little bit bigger right now and you have a little pocket where the stick pocket is for put your hand in and it's easy to get up there. to do with the trailer hooked up, that's probably my favorite way to go to bed, it's the thing about the GMC starting the clock, now the hammer goes down, so you gotta push that, it's okay for a while, I thought. which I did, so it was a pretty strong acceleration from the EcoBoost, yes it was effortless, it got to sixty very quickly, so as long as the race is clear I'm pretty sure this would be a bit quicker than the other two , yes, this is what we need after that, eight men around, yes, they sound obviously in the EcoBoost has been increased for a while, yes, so you hear a little bit deeper tone inside, the cabin produces power, that's it, so you just hear the induction, no, it doesn't have that v8 growl, you know, that the Hemi has.

Sure it has weight and when it goes back down we need to measure the noise level, but it has a ten-speed automatic transmission that is basically shared, a lot of components are shared with the GMC. Yes, it could have helped with GM transmissions, the second generation EcoBoost 235 came. it came out in the 17 model year and that was also later part of that year also with ten speeds so the 18's have it and now the 19's have it too so far it's just flying up the mountain like always you can pose making a plug and Wait, yes, this is the high country and it's snowing in October, but we're using the same scoring system to compare these trucks.

One hundred points is the most a truck can get on the way down. 25 maximum points for each truck. We subtract the point every time we touch the brakes of the truck on the way up the mountain, 50 points is the maximum for the truck and eight minutes of racing is our reference race and five more seconds subtracts one point and sixty PG is our fuel economy. reference fuel on the way up and each point two mpg below that subtracts one point finally the 25 points is a subjective score that each of us gives to the truck for the final score at the final stop now it stopped at 7:55 holy one three point three three point three okay, this is very similar to the results with other EcoBoost engines.

Now we get to score these objective bargeboards and we'll find out how these trucks really compare. Are you ready for this fight? Yeah, yeah, go ahead, yeah, okay, let's do this goal. Rate Nathan, okay. well the highest score for me is the RAM okay there are 24 okay so I got top marks on the interior with the electronics driving gear fantastic because the air suspension I only took one point off because the mirrors were not as wide as my number two. on the list, what is the GMC, it's okay and I gave it a 122, it had a very good squat ride, it was pretty well controlled, the mirrors were great, the biggest ones there were and then the strong one is a solid 20.

I had to take off because I felt the squat. It was noticeable and the interior fit and finished the entire interior. Sorry, it doesn't compete with the other two and I took off a lot of points for that. I put these kind of trucks one, two, three, that's how I used to do it before. Judging by the effort, I know RAM anyway. I like more. I gave it a score of 24 and you know, the aerial handling. I love the four right corners. I drive it, it didn't stoop with the trailer, the original mirrors had the longest range. they go further in the trailer sway is minimal.

I didn't think it was a problem, other than that, you know, that's part of the handling, the squat and the comfort of the cabin, you know, it's very, very good, they're all so close there. cab cover yeah now the second place I would go with the GMC is it's also a new 19 and I gave it a single squadron 23. A couple of inches they have that you know the solid suspension didn't sway and already You know. I liked the cabin. I'm glad you straightened the steering wheel brake controllers into a good place. Everything saw me where I was and the mirrors are exceptional.

They don't reach as much RAM, but they are a little bigger. a little blind spot cut out so you can see things and then the last place that's not too far back is 22 on the Ford and the only thing it lost points for was it didn't have much of a mirror for standard. in its course, another map, Tointon, the handling was a little strange and in the streaming one you can feel that when the backend moves a little bit that's where you feel that it's the right feeling and you know that you hold on to it and you can feel that There is a little more influence than the other two trucks.

I've never done this before, but I'll give RAM the perfect score for the subjective score. It simply has the technology, the interior, the air suspension that not only maintains comfort but is also at the level of Ford, it was the leader a year ago and we gave it many awards in previous years, but the competition has increased. The fourth has a little more template and the interior in terms of technology, the resolution in the The camera system is lower than in the RAM and that is why I gave the Ford 22 points for those reasons and the GMC is secondly in my opinion it has amazing technology for towing the interior its not as comfortable and as good as in the ram or the

ford

so i took a couple points off so guys are you saying do we all have basically the same opinion?

Ram comes out first GMC second Ford third yeah but I don't know about the mind thing but yeah guys. Before we completely freeze up, I have these final scores, yes please, for the Ford in third place here, 72 and a half points, the GMC in second place, seventy-six and a half points and finally 82 points for the RAM , which is a really good sport, can you? explain why those points are the way they are, yes of course we lost quite a few points on old trucks on the way down with the right braking applications and on the way up with fuel economy, but in the end these are all scores really high oh come back to be calm when you see the news and the real

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