New Ford F-150

[skinautique]

Has anyone driven one? I am really liking the white ones. I think they look awesome but I have never towed with one. Has anyone else towed with one? I love the way GM tows and I don't like the lack of power in the Dodge (haven't driven a hemi though) but I like the looks of the truck on 20 inch chromes!!

[gibby]

WE have a F150 at the ski school and it can do anything we need including towing...try one you will love it

[Hollywood]

Why is the oval so huge on the tailgate? Same with Dodge, they keep making bigger and bigger emblems to make up for their lack of power? (I'm a GM nut, sorry!)

[skinautique]

Which one of you is that from Jack Travers? I love skiing over there. I know you guys have the older F-150 there. I am curious about driving a new one with one of the triton engines in there.

[Hollywood]

Even the F250 SDs with whatever triton V8 is offered are peppy trucks, I imagine that in an F150 has balls.

[Deuce]

It is just a tow vehicle, so don't take this as me taking offence. But I have a 2002 Dodge 1500 with the 5.9 lt 360ci engine and I have never felt I was lacking power.

Most of my friends with boats have diesels and in our area(Utah) we tow up and down canyons almost every lake we go to. I am never lagging behind. My only complaint is that I have to gas up twice as much as they do. My truck is a gas hog.

E.J.

[FatBoy]

I just got a new 4X4 Super Duty F-250 crew cab with the Lariet package and the 6.0 Turbo Diesel ( 300 Horse Power). You don't even know my SV-211 is back there.

[skinautique]

Duece, the thing I have experienced with them is the get "dragged" down very easily on the highway. There is alot more "gassing" back up that I have to do unless I am using cruise. Does that make much sense?

[skinautique]

Fatboy, The truck looks great. How is the new 211 treating you?

[AbunDiga909]

Fatboy, seems no surpise you don't notice the 211 back there, thats an awesome tow vehicle. We hope the new Durango will do the same!

[skinautique]

Abundiga, You will have a whole lot less weight back there too.

[AbunDiga909]

skinautique, true... true...

Hey, these tow vehicles seem to be popular... maybe we should have like a "tow vehicle review," kinda like what a dealer review would be like... HINT HINT NUDGE NUDGE Jeff & Luke! :lol:

[FatBoy]

I am loving the 211. We were on the river today. The F-250 pulled it down highway 40 at 80 mph like it was nothing. I am figuring the rig weighs about 6,000 lbs, trailer and all. We went sking today without the wetsuits, the water temp was 69 and the air temp got up to 90. It was a great day.

[ag4ever]

I have a F-250 Crew Cab with the diesel, and a SANTE, and weighed the whole rig one day on a CAT scale.

Turned out I was about 13,000 pounds with nobody in the truck, and a half tank of fuel in the boat and truck.

BTW, whatever you do, don't go over to thedieselstop.com that site is worse than these boat sites about being adicting. I have spent more money on the truck due to that site than I care to think of. On the plus side, I can now change the oil in my truck for less than $18. That is a filter and 15 quarts of oil.
I estimate the truck to be about 7500 and the boat and trailer to be 5500.

[Rick]

Looks like we need an F-150 Group Buy :twisted:

[atasty39]

Don't you mean F350 group buy? :) That I would be interested in!