S10 power

I was just wondering a couple things about the s10 and sonoma's. I'm looking into trading my truck for a 03 s10 extreme, 4.3L, 5sp. I was wondering if anyone knows what gears come with extreme's most of the time? Also I was wondering if a 03 s10 is faster than a 94 s10? Because my friend has a 94 sonoma with a 4.3L, automatic, 3.42 gears and it feels faster than other sonoma's and s10's i've been in(this in not going to make my decison on getting the truck just like to know). Just wondering if that is just the feeling or is the older one's faster, because on msn they rate the older ones at 165hp and 236lb/ft of torque and the new ones are 190hp and 250lb/ft of torque. Also on msn they say that for 03 they have revised fuel-injection system for Vortec 4300 V6, what did they do to it and what does it do better than the other 1 before they revised it?

depends on engine code

if your friends 94 has the w vin motor it was rated at 200 hp/250 tq. thats the motor that was in the ss.