Originally Posted by TheDonEffect

I always felt the domestics for the most part did the quarter ton trucks well... but time and time again at around 100k miles they begin to show their worts, namely transmissions going out around that time. Where they did dramatically improve is interior quality since the early aughts, those interiors were terrible designed and put together. It's why Toyota got away for long selling the same V6 and V8s despite virtually everything else under the sun getting better mpgs with more power and cheap service intervals, it's that long term durability, at least preceived durability anyway.

It is pretty astonishing what they're able to do out of these huge vehicles these days.

Originally Posted by sam_spider

Seeing how quickly the domestic trucks rust themselves apart up here would stop me from buying another one. Our '16 1500 Chevy with the 5.3 was crap, never again, the excuses from the dealer just made it worse. Happy day when I traded it in for my Land Rover.

Originally Posted by QUIKAG

I'll throw the Silverado 3.0 Duramax in for anyone that needs a full-size truck. No, it doesn't handle great, it's a freaking truck, but man it's so smooth, torquey, quiet, nice riding. Interior is legitimately nice on the '22+ refresh as well. 30+mpg is realistic if willing to drive 70mph or under on the highway. Best to date is 32.4mpg on an easy highway drive for my 4wd Z51 model. Otherwise, it's mid to lower 20's if driving 80-90mph+ which is still awesome for a full-size truck. Rpm at 90mph is just under 2,000rpm so feels very under-stressed bombing down the highway. Never needs to downshift.

I can't say enough good things about how good the LM2/LZ0 3.0 Duramax is for smooth, quiet power with a ton of torque (495) at low rpm. Really the perfect half-ton truck engine for actual truck stuff. Reliability has been great so far on the powertrain since it came out in 2020. GM did good on this one. Definitely one of their better engines they've done.