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F-150 FX2 ordered today - Thanks AT!

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WackyDan

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Well, I ordered the F-150 Supercrew FX2 with the 6.5 foot bed and 5.0 V8 today. Fully decked out so I'm getting leather and heated and cooled seats, etc. Should be in by end of january, early feb.

Thanks to the feedback here on my original post: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2197908&highlight=150+ecoboost

...and thanks to lots of research, I decided that the 5.0 was going to be plenty of engine for me to tow with and that the Ecoboost while attractive, wasn't worth the $850 bump.

Now, I didn't want leather seats or heated or cooled seats... Though I've had a rental with cooled seats and it was actually awesome feature. I went FX2 as that is the first F-150 model that can get you bucket seats - I did not like their split bench setups. In order to get remote start, power rear window, etc I had to sign on to the 'luxury package which is why it has the leather and doodads.

I also was pricing RAMs. The Ram was $2725 cheaper than the F-150, had cloth seats, and was lacking some of the luxury doodads I didn't need anyway. I honestly thought the Ram was going to be my choice based on value, but after crunching the numbers and factoring in that the Ram would cost me roughly $1500 more in gas over 100k miles, the gap was only $1275, and I was able to get the Ford dealer to come down a bit more by adding the locking axle... So the Ford in the end was the best value overall. + I was kinda drawn more to it anyway.

My observations from the whole three weeks of shopping....

Ford, looks and feels like a smaller truck but really isn't. 5.0 V8 feels plenty strong enough.
Ford interior with leather is nicer than even a Ram with leather, but the Ram definitely has a better thought out interior with little nooks and crannies plus lots of storage. The Ford center console is nowhere near as nice as the Ram, but I can live with it and make it work.

I'd have to go Crew cab on the Ram which is stupid big, the Ford seemed just right and on the Ram the bed would have been 5'7", where on the Ford I get the 6'5"... Small difference but noticeable. However, I'm installing a Retraxx rolling bed cover in the truck so that extra space helps.

The Ram really did drive/ride better. Felt boaty but still handled well if you had to throw it around. The Ford rode nice too, but felt a bit more bumpy and rigid... Leaf versus coil of the Ram... not surprising.

So I wait. have a nice 13 year old southern Dakota going up for sale in January with 115k miles. 🙂
 
They are both quiet trucks. Unbelievable in the NVH qualities. I drove '10 F-150 fx4 around Louisiana. Quite often at night I would find myself on a gravel road not even realizing I left the asphalt.
Congrats. Post pics on delivery day. ( d- day)
 
HAL9000, the 5.0L refers to the engine size. We don't use "the volume of the queen's favorite teacup" as a unit of capacity here in America so I can see why you'd be confused. The bed is the thing in the back that hauls stuff. I think in your dialect it would be called a "two horse waggon's periwinkle basket" or something fanciful like that.
 
Throckmorton said:
HAL9000, the 5.0L refers to the engine size. We don't use "the volume of the queen's favorite teacup" as a unit of capacity here in America so I can see why you'd be confused. The bed is the thing in the back that hauls stuff. I think in your dialect it would be called a "two horse waggon's periwinkle basket" or something fanciful like that.
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5.0L means 5 litres I got that, no confusion. The bed was my confusion.

What the fuck are you talking about.
 
HAL9000 said:
😕 seriously?
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Hal, this is one of the reasons so many consider you a troll and get bent out of shape by you: In this case it's hard for most to understand why you would leap to such a ridiculous assumption when the simple act of putting pickup bed into Google would yield your answer.

When someone says they have to tend to their flower bed, I am sure you don't leap to any similarly illogical conclusion, you know?

So, yeah, the car terminology differs in several particulars depending on which side of the Atlantic you find yourself, but troll-like behavior like this makes people want to put you in a trunk here, then give you the boot there.

Such a wrenching disconnect makes some want to smack you with a spanner. 😉
 
Perknose said:
Hal, this is one of the reasons so many consider you a troll and get bent out of shape by you: In this case it's hard for most to understand why you would leap to such a ridiculous assumption when the simple act of putting pickup bed into Google would yield your answer.

When someone says they have to tend to their flower bed, I am sure you don't leap to any similarly illogical conclusion, you know?

So, yeah, the car terminology differs in several particulars depending on which side of the Atlantic you find yourself, but troll-like behavior like this makes people want to put you in a trunk here, then give you the boot there.

Such a wrenching disconnect makes some want to smack you with a spanner. 😉
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I understand your point, but from the OP I wouldn't have derived the term "Pickup bed" similarly, I've heard the term flower bed before. And what really made it confusing was that the guy described his vehicle and said it has a 6.5 foot bed. I sleep in a 7 foot bed.
 
HAL9000 said:
I understand your point, but from the OP I wouldn't have derived the term "Pickup bed" similarly, I've heard the term flower bed before. And what really made it confusing was that the guy described his vehicle and said it has a 6.5 foot bed. I sleep in a 7 foot bed.
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Most of us on this forum watch enough British TV (though I'm from a commonwealth country too) to know your words for these things, so why don't you know our words?
 
He's one of the 3-4 trolls we've picked up in the garage lately. It's pretty clear that nothing will be done about it, unfortunately.
 
Congrats!

I have a 2010 F150 and it's been great. I didn't drive the Dodge, but drove all the other trucks on the market and the F150 felt much different, better. Although the turning radius of the Tundra was impressive.

I like the commercials and features that Dodge advertises, but based on all the horror stories I could never buy a Dodge, Chrysler or Jeep (maybe an old Jeep).
 
Anybody notice that no matter where he posts, all the threads he post in eventually become about Hal and his trolling ways?

Really wish people would just stop responding to him.
 
SuperSix said:
I would have spent the extra for the Ecoboost - amazing power train.
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It's an expensive twin-turbo V-6 that doesn't really live up to the Eco part of it's name. :biggrin:

It's a shame they hobbled the 5.0 in the F-150 to try to sell those Ecoboost engines. :biggrin:

Actually though, if they would let the 3.5L EB loose, it would really be a monster.
 
I think I'd choose the 5.0 as well, the eco-boost is too new, it may not have any bugs or quirks immediately but it probably will in the first 100k miles. The 5.0 has been around for a long time, it should hold fewer surprises. I had a F150 rental several months ago, I haven't driven all the competitors trucks, but I'd be comfortable buying an F150 without driving any of the others, it's a nice truck.
 
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