Yeah, the 1st gen Durango is a Dakota without a bed and 3 rows of seats.  The passenger cab is slightly wider, but they share almost all of their parts.

The Tundras have one axle ratio, 4.30, so yeah, pretty much. Probably also the reason they get such shit fuel mileage.

Really?  The 4.7 is decently quick, if you put your foot into it.  It doesn’t seem to have as much down low.  Driving my parent’s Dakota, I thought it was slow at first too, but on one of my trips I decided to hammer down and the power really picks up after maybe 3k rpm or so.  Similar to the 4.7 in my Durango, though…

These transmissions are torqueflites with an overdrive, either hydraulic or electrically controlled. The 42 is a 904, the 46 is a 727.

Just to clarify , it’s not that they can’t figure out how to make them quicker, but they’re not going to invest as much into production of ones expected to be low volume as they would something like the 5.7 that they needed to build millions of, so it’s going to be more labor intensive.

That’s the whole point you’re arguing.

And I’d bet you a billion dollars I could set up a blind taste test between your supposedly-better-tasting local produce and some grown responsibly elsewhere and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

Because they probably build them where they build other engines, other crate engines, engines they put in their cars, trucks, etc. and only have so many production hours to make them all.  They’re also probably fairly labor intensive too, so unless they can figure out how to make them quicker, they didn’t want a back…

You’d lose a half-ton though

Nothing. It’s stupid. You can buy a regular 426 hemi, boost it to hell and it will make 1000WHP for 20K less.

You could see Chinese New Year celebrations in this country....

I graduated in 2011 and am doing fine, so I think your range is bigger than it needs to be. Being in school for that was the best place to be, low interest rates, not really any job to lose, and the job market was recovering, though slowly, by the time graduation rolled around. I realized that when I hired the guy…

It’s not that nobody knows what it means, it’s that everyone has their own interpretation of a vague term, and that changes depending on what commodity is being discussed. Of course “local” seafood will have the largest radius, not many tuna catches in Iowa. The main factor for me is how well the stuff transports. If…

Good to know that preferring flavor is now ethnocentric and xenophobic.

They’re DEAD, they’d get LITERALLY NOTHING for it.  

That’s irrelevant, the poster I replied to was disagreeing with the statement: “People are more traveled in the US, and move more often then the Danes.” 

I disagree. Sure we all share a common language, but there’s a fairly large cultural difference, even within the same state. It’s most easily visible in architecture, food, and holiday traditions.

Maybe he’s deaf

Actually, one of the articles I read on it had someone that their GMC wouldn’t work, but their Nissan did.