Comparison Test: Ford F-150 vs RamTrucks 1500 vs Toyota Tundra:
Shivering structure, leaf-spring rear end, petrochemical-based interior.The F-150 PowerBoost almost feels like a retro-rod. Here we have a hybrid powertrain that puts out 430 horsepower and 570 pound-feet of torque, an aluminum body, hands-free highway driving via Ford's BlueCruise system, and generator functionality that turns the truck into a portable power station.
The Toyota and the Ram stare at the Ford with sales envy. Ford pickups outsell Ram and Toyota pickups combined.The hybridized F-150 does put up some great numbers. There's the best-in-test 5.3-second 60-mph time and 13.8-second quarter-mile at 101 mph. And it also earned the best observed fuel economy , had the quietest cabin at 70 mph , and notched the highest payload and tow ratings.
Because of the chassis, for one thing. "Turning off the lane-departure warning system only moderately reduces the shivers coming through the steering wheel," one tester wrote. Another comment read, "If the Ram 1500 is a ball bearing rolling on steel tracks, the Ford F-150 is a partially unmoored bouncy house on a windy day." The F-150 is comfortable, to be sure, with the cushiest seats of the group, but its manners are the most resolutely trucklike.
Its interior, too, is pleasant enough but sports a whole lot of plastic pretending to be other things. One set of trim inserts with a mottled brown pattern looks halfway torn between a mission to be fake wood or fake metal. The digital instrument panel only has one display option, which was characterized as "big, goofy numbers." Yes, this is an F-150 Lariat and not a Limited or Platinum or King Ranch model, but it still costs $70,000.
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