Ok, had put someone in timeout since they tend to have a potty mouth.

When they get back out, it they keep up the potty mouth, it will be a permanent ban.

 

Thanks Scooter I apologize to everyone for any wrong doing on my part! I know I am better than this!

 

On a side note, the Tundra is actually built here in Texas. They also claim to use more US produced parts on their trucks than any of the big 3. Don't know if that claim is true or not.

 

I would not doubt that for a minute! I like Toyota trucks esp the Tacoma's good trucks they are.....YES!

 

Well, being an OLD timer, I have owned them all, and towed with a bunch of them. I have to say I like the Fords and Dodges. Now I had always had an affinity for the Ford trucks, but when I went to buy a bigger truck in 03, Dodge had the best deal at the time. I have been a Dodge man ever since. I've owned a hemi, and after a white knuckle tow from Georgia to Virginia pulling a 11 ft tall 22 ft enclosed trailer, and getting 5 MPG doing it, I decided something bigger was in order. I bought an 06 3/4 ton with a Cummins diesel. This truck will be my last truck, as I do not anticipate ever needing another one. I will have this till I die, then my two sons can fight over it. If it were me, I'd be looking for an 05 or 06 Dodge with the Cummins Diesel in it. Nothing else will do in my book. There is a saying. There are two kinds of truck owners out there. 1) the guys that own a cummins, and the others that wish they did. That being said, I do not like the new 6.7 liter. Stick with the 5.9. Lastly, think about how often the truck will be driven loaded versus empty. And buy accordingly for the most use scenario. ALso go bigger than whay you think you will need. No matter how big you buy, you will always need more down the the road. It must be a law of nature or something...

 

Yeah, Mopar or No car!

 

I was a diehard GM person until the last three GM vehicles I owned just didn't last very long. Great, until they got to 80k miles, then all of them started breaking. Last four Fords I've had have been darn near indestructible: two Escorts, a Sable wagon, and a Ranger. I sold one escort with 185k miles on it, still going great. So I'll stay with them, they've been good for me. Don't think it's a surprise that of the big three, Ford didn't need to be bailed out by the government. My experience is, they make a more reliable and longer lasting vehicle.

When gas got expensive, I swapped the Ranger for an 06 F350: crew cab, dually rear, long bed, King Ranch interior. Figured if I was going to pay a lot to drive a truck, it may as well be able to haul something, and were they ever cutting prices back then. Didn't really need the dually, but they made me such a good deal that I thought - why not? Joke was on whomever bought that Ranger. While it was a great little truck, it sucked the gas with the big V6. On the road, the F350 gets about 2mpg better, and it's about twice the size.

May well be the last truck I'll ever own. It's rock solid, pulls like crazy. Never had a moment's problem with it, and it just turned 103k miles. Rides amazingly smooth for a 1 ton, turns surprisingly sharp for a 24 foot long vehicle. Handling is the tightest I've ever felt on a truck this size - it goes where you want it to, when you want it to. None of the vagueness that 1 ton trucks I've driven in the past showed. The saddle leather interior puts a Lincoln to shame. Gets 18-20 on the road unloaded, unless you get it over 70 and then it starts drinking.

And it has to be one of the safest vehicles on the road. Even the dimmest cell phone yakking slob in the most bloated SUV gives this monster a wide berth. I've noticed that my fellow motorists are decidedly more polite when I'm in the F350. If I have to take the family anywhere, we take the truck now. They won't mess with us. And if they do - it weighs around 9200 pounds. That'll flatten a ricer.

Took it to a buddy's farm in E KY. We stacked the bed high with cut red oak, figured it was about 2.5 tons, and I drove over a mountain on a twisty little country road going home. It shrugged that load off like it wasn't there. The back end didn't even sit down. No wobbling, no smoking brakes, no nothing. Rode a little smoother, and that was about it. I've made the same trip in a gas half ton with half that load, and it was downright scary trying to get over that mountain - wobbling all over the place, brakes overheating coming down.

I just don't see buying another truck. This one has been so good that I'd have to spend a fortune to get anything even slightly better. Does everything well: easy on fuel, hauls heavy loads, rides real smooth unloaded, scares rude drivers.

As for the smack talk about the 6.0: I know three other 6.0 owners, all of them have been rock solid, too. Most of the bad rep comes from kids slapping tuners on them and driving them like idiots. You see someone online complaining about blowing a 6.0, they almost always have a whole bunch of mods listed in their sig.