Geoffrey Hausheer wrote on 14-Nov-97 14:43:29
>I was watching TV the other day, and saw a comercial indicating an "upgrade"
>to a 6 cyl on the dakota. This got me to wondering, so I checked, and sure
>enough the 4 cyl is concidered "standard" on the 2wd shortbed dak base model.
> Has anyone out there actually bought a dakota with the 4 cylinder engine?
>Does it move under its own power? Does it get reasonable gas mileage? Why
>does chrsyler build these? I don't think I've ever seen anyone post that they
> have the 4cyl model here, so do they actually sell any?
>Just curious?
>Geoffrey Hausheer
>Intel Corp.
>Hillsboro, OR
Several years ago I had the (mis)fortune to drive a friend's old 4-Cylinder
Dak from Austin to the Dallas area. It was a standard cab, short bed pickup
and it had absolutely NO power at all. 5th gear was completely USELESS, as it
would not even pull the extremely moderate hills in the Austin area (our
"hills" are about as steep as overpasses.) In town, the short gearing made the
truck tolerable, but you had to STAND on it every time you wanted to pull out
in traffic. About the only time you could get it to spin it's wheels was when
you backed out of a driveway into the grass on a wet morning.
At the time I had an old beat-up 4-cyl Honda Prelude (82HP, woo hoo!) that
would eat the Dak for lunch. Now THAT's sad!
Carl (4 cylinders is 4 short) Vidos
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