F-250 vs Ram 2500

donn0128 wrote:

b17drvr wrote:
Get a 4x4 for resale. Nobody wants a 2x2. The 17 and later fords are really nice with the new design.

Thats absolute silly. Anyone who attempts to haul a 10,000+ pound trailer over unpaved ground is simply asking for trouble.
A properly equipped 4x2 will have more load carrying capacity, get better fuel economy, have a lower step in height. Which a lot of folks, think vertically challanged or older, will appreciate. I started towing my fiver with a 4x4, after three years of not using it while towing swapped for a 4x2 dually. Towed 13 years with no problems what so ever. We took our 4x2 dually places a truck its size should not have gone with no problems.
Someone once said, "all 4x4 will do for 90% of people is get them deeper in trouble".
The OP needs to pick a tow vehicle thst will do the job he intends it to do.

Lol! There's an arse for every seat for sure. But you need to get out more. May surprise you that people doo more with trucks than hook their campers for a weekend jaunt to the RV park on the coast!
Heck I had to use 4wd last weekend, well maybe not, but I'm not the 90% you're hypothesizing about. Got to a steep gravel boat launch with 4000lbs in the bed and a 5000lb boat on a trailer and the boat was thirsty!
Figgered it would be more a sure thing than spinning out and the truck taking a drink too. And then there's stuff like snow or steep hills, and I wanna look cool ya know!
But aside from that, b17 is right, mostly. There are a "few" that want a 2wd, a few that benefit from a 2wd, some that have to settle for a 2wd, but most want or, gasp, even need a 4x4. And they do have better resale if that money thing is important to you.