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Originally Posted by tech10002
This thread is completely pointless. I just thought I'd share.  As a fairly new Super Duty owner, I just never realized how nice these things are. Today I drove my 95 F150 Supercab instead of my 250 just to charge the battery and keep the seals lubed since it has been sitting parked for a couple months, and I was absolutely miserable. I felt like I was in a Ranger. LOL
I drive 500-1000 miles a week for work, and I actually look forward to getting a service call finished, starting up the old Powerstroke, and driving to the next jobsite. I used to dread all the driving. I didn't realize until now what the difference really is. I wish I would have bought a Super Duty years ago. |
Back to the original subject... you aren't kidding. When I was a kid growing up on a farm, a one ton truck was plain, pulled like crazy, and rattled your teeth out. The heater worked, and the radio didn't. The cup holder was your hand, and climate control was a few twists on the window crank.
When I went to swap my 02 Ranger FX4 for something larger and diesel powered so I could actually haul something, I wasn't prepared for what I found. The F250's looked pretty good, prices for them used weren't so bad, and they sure drove nice. Didn't feel like a big truck. Then I asked about that copper colored crew cab with the dually wheels they had sitting on the lot. Oh, he says, that's an 06 King Ranch F350. Keys are in it, take it for a run.
I got in, and... you gotta be kidding me. This isn't a truck, it's the smoking room in a private men's club. And the seats, not the overpriced cardboard they pass off for leather seats on cars these days. It's real leather. Looks, feels, and smells like a fine saddle.
Took it out for a drive, darn it rides smooth. Got out on the highway, leaned the seat back, opened the power sunroof (on a one ton truck?) and thought, now this is how to live. I have got to figure out a way to get this home. My wife is going to kill me. What with the drought hurting the farmers, and contractors having trouble with the housing market, big diesel trucks weren't selling well, so they were real accomodating on the price, and gave me $11k tradein on the Ranger, and that's with a dent in the back of the cab.
On the road, the big F350 doesn't use much more fuel than the thirsty little Ranger, and all those idiots driving bloated suv's stay well clear of this monster. On top of that, it's a darn good truck. Tight, but not stiff. Pulls a heavy trailer, and controls it. Tundra? Titan? Nobody overseas makes a truck like this. Only in the USA. I think I've died and gone to heaven. Looks like fuel costs an arm and a leg up there, too.
And my wife didn't kill me. Said that the $490/month payments were worth not having my daughter's heads banged against the Ranger's rear window. I still don't understand women, but I'm not complaining...
09-27-2007, 12:06 AM
at it could be worse im at 14.5 
ed a little bit. 
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