Your GT5 Truck Preference

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What's Your Favourite Truck Brand in GT5?

  • Dodge

    Votes: 24 17.4%

  • Chevrolet

    Votes: 39 28.3%

  • Ford

    Votes: 33 23.9%

  • Toyota

    Votes: 24 17.4%

  • Daihatsu

    Votes: 18 13.0%
  • Total voters
    138
I picked the Tacoma because I prefer it over the other pick-up's in GT5, since it's smaller and lighter so it's less of a house to drive. If I could could have any truck I wanted in GT5 though...

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I've always like the way that the Dodge handles (it was one of the few cars I enjoyed using in GT4, for example), but I'd say between the two that I use the Lightning a lot more.
 
VTiRoj
I picked the Tacoma because I prefer it over the other pick-up's in GT5, since it's smaller and lighter so it's less of a house to drive. If I could could have any truck I wanted in GT5 though...

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Agreed - the Syclone is a SICK truck...
By second-hand account, it will even beat a Honda (1000cc motorcycle)!
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Peace...
 
VTiRoj
I picked the Tacoma because I prefer it over the other pick-up's in GT5, since it's smaller and lighter so it's less of a house to drive. If I could could have any truck I wanted in GT5 though...

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If I could have any truck I'd choose a Ram SRT-10. THAT thing knows how to rock!👍 But I completely agree with all the people who said that trucks handle like the USS Enterprise... I prefer cars (badly) but once you wrap your head around the trucking way it's not THAT bad...

By the third or so go I was able to adjust me driving style to get alot more out of the Ram. I'm tempted to try the Toyota, though; people seem to have lots of good things to say about it.

I'd recommend staying away from the Silverado though. I tried it first and while it's brutally fast in a straight line, its turning capabilities make the Ram look like a Lotus Elise... :rolleyes:
 
I always preferred the Tacoma (fully upgraded with 180+ mph top speed) until I came to the latest Seasonals. I had managed to get the Tacoma round the 'Ring in around 7:30 (PP reduced to 550 with Racing Softs and all upgrades) but always felt it was a little twitchy.

I decided to try a Ram (the one currently in the OCD with an Oil Change), so bought all the upgrades including Racing Softs (PP was under the 550 max). Top speed was under 170 mph, but I managed to get the thing around the 'Ring in about 7:16, which I must say surprised me considering its bulk.
 
I have them all and the silverado ss concept is easily the best. It has over 900+HP and is low so it performs amazing
 
shmogt
I have them all and the silverado ss concept is easily the best. It has over 900+HP and is low so it performs amazing
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Would you mind informing the class of how to make it turn(other than putting racing tires on it(does even that work?))?
 
Morgoth_666
Would you mind informing the class of how to make it turn(other than putting racing tires on it(does even that work?))?
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Roger that. The words truck and performance do not belong in the same sentence. How does nailing a 900 bhp motor to something that handles like a canal boat help? It would just make the ridiculous handling even more comical. :sick:
 
I voted the Ram. I haven't tried the Tacoma though. The Syclone and Typhoon would kill every truck and alot of cars if they were in the game.
 
The Sy has a lot of speed potential, but GT5 allows you to tune all of these trucks to silly levels of power... so handling becomes a must... and handling really isn't the SyTy's strong suit. The AWD stability should help, but it's more than likely it wouldn't be a match for the more modern Tacoma.

And there's nothing quite like Midget II racing... great fun when one of those big lumbering Dodges turns into you as you dive through the apex... knocking you twenty feet into the weeds... :lol:

dschoene
Well basically I don't consider pickups any viable sort of motoring. They handle worse than the Exxon Valdez and most of the world gave up on live rear axles when the ox-cart went out of style. But if anything the Toyota X-Runner is sort of bearable.

Well the Midget is just a bad joke...
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Can your car do this AND haul a bed-full of lumber?




Didn't think so.
 
Niky, the ability to intentionally lose traction does not a fast vehicle make. Especially in a vehicle with almost no weight in the rear. Silly ricer. TOKYO DRIFT STYLEZ YO.

Too bad the SRT-10 Ram isn't in the game. If there is one thing I dislike about this game is that it's too Japanesey and they've ignored so many obvious North American choices and included so many stupid Japanese and European choices.

The Tacoma X-Runner is probably my preference in truck mostly because it actually exists in real life outside an R&D shop unlike the Silverado SST.
 
ssyd780
Niky, the ability to intentionally lose traction does not a fast vehicle make. Especially in a vehicle with almost no weight in the rear. Silly ricer. TOKYO DRIFT STYLEZ YO.
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Who said anything about drifting being fast?

dschoene complained that the handling on pick-ups is horrid... because pick-ups are mostly live-axle (and leaf-sprung... AND ladder-frame...)

That's a competition drift truck run by a driving school. Professionally. A live-axle, leaf-sprung, front-heavy, iron-block diesel pick-up. To drift, you need a platform that has basically benign handling, a good balance and predictability. Which, yes, you can get from a pick-up, if it's set up right.

Even the street version of these trucks (the current global Ranger/BT50 platform) is relatively good to drive. Recirculating ball steering, so it's not quite as good as a sportscar, but it's got more feel and better steering than many family cars, and the basic suspension work on the platform was headed by an ex-Jaguar man. And it shows. Fling it into a corner on the brakes and goose the gas and you can get some pretty lurid (but controllable) slides, even on dry pavement. In terms of grip, there isn't much from the Bridgestone Duelers, but the keen-ness of balance is noticeable, even with this handicap. The diesel Ranger is on my list of "favorite test drives" from the past four or five years I've been doing them.

This is not to say that a pick-up configuration is great for racing... or drifting. But don't knock the entire formula (pick-ups, that is) until you've tried some of the better ones on offer.

I love pickups. Crude, simple, uncomplicated. I love them more than SUVs, and I've driven some of the better ones available (twin turbo X6, Cayenne, two generations of X5, both Mazda crossovers, the new Rangie...). Some of then are very fast and capable... but not quite as enthralling as a good old pick-up and a muddy trail. ;)
 
SSR was pretty quick last night in an all-truck lobby. The Dodges were faster off the line but I had them in the corners.
 
chuyler1
SSR was pretty quick last night in an all-truck lobby. The Dodges were faster off the line but I had them in the corners.
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And just think - you were only up against the 'normal' Ram!:sly: If PD had been nice and given us the SRT-10 to go with the SS Chevy and SVT Ford, you'd all be left for dead, corners or no corners!:dopey:

That sort of annoy me, though, how everyone but Dodge got the special go-fast version... maybe they thought it was TOO powerful? But the normal Ram on sport softs with stage 1 weight reduction actually turned acceptably well in my experience...
 

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