Re: R/T vs Lightning

From: |< R |> (krp@netnitco.net)
Date: Wed Oct 20 1999 - 01:02:56 EDT


Date sent: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:33:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: R/T vs Lightning
Send reply to: dakota-truck@buffnet.net

> Hee hee hee! :-) Does anyone know if Dodge has fixed this
> problem yet? I have a feeling they're going to take the stupid
> way out and just rate all R/Ts at 2,000lbs. IMHO, that's pretty
> lame; they need to re-engineer the thing. Its not quite as
> bad as a Syclone, but I don't think anyone would want their
> R/T compared to an S-10 with a 500lb limit, and that's the
> direction I see this heading! The Lightning already has the
> speed department wrapped up, Dodge should at least take the
> towing bragging rights away from them...
>
>
> -Jon-

They won't fix it. All R/T's are rated at 2000#. We have payload
wrapped up over the lightning. 1275 vs 800. Put that in your pipe,
ford, and smoke it. Hee hee.

|{eith R. Phelps
krp at netnitco dot net

Cat..... the other white meat.



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