The Dodge Hemi we have equally sucks. Get in loose sand and it just starts jumping. My wife has an '05 Ford F150 that gets along real good, with the 300 horse 5.4liter and automatic, but has aftermarket 19" rims on it and gets terrible gas mileage. The 06 Chevy I've got has kind of been a pleasant surprise considering the terrible lemons we got from Chevy in the late 80s and 90s. I don't have a gooseneck ball on it because we've got other outfits we can pull a trailer with, and it's only got the 6.0 liter gas w/automatic anyway. But it actually gets around the Sandhills pretty well, although that plastic junk is below the front bumper and gets knocked loose periodically. The best part is that it was a closeout, and I bought it on the last day of the month, just a couple hours before closing time, and offered them $21K cash for it and they took it. Naturally they had to act insulted at first by my offer. The thing is that I don't want a Diesel to drive in the mud and down in the Sandhills; just too much weight and expense in something that's going to be beat plum to death. A cheap gas outfit is a little more "disposable", and I don't feel too bad sending it to an early grave.