F 250 vs Ram 2500
The wifey and I are discussing a new truck in the next 2 years. Right now we have a 2013 Ford F 150 SCAB long box. When we have children, she wants a crew. I cannot give up the 8 foot box. AFAIK no on...
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ShinerBock wrote:Bionic Man wrote:4x4ord wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Me Again wrote:kellem wrote:
OP, if your looking new then Ford currently owns the market with the 6.7 PS or the 7.3 gas.
I actually wanted a Ram but simply couldn't overlook this.
It is called different strokes for different folks. I had three RAM/Cummins trucks(1993, 2001.5 and 2015) and loved each one. Never was stranded on the side of the road, 1994 to 2021.
With the 5 RAM/CUMMINS I have owned with over half million miles between them I have been without propulsion twice. Both times I ran out of fuel.
See if you had only been running Fords you could have avoided both them times..... with the older Ford you’d never have even tried to make it and with the newer Ford you’d have made it:)
Coming from the guy who buys a new truck almost as often as he fills the fuel tank.;)
I would also add that the real-world recording from owners does not match up with these one-off runs from review sites like TFL. According to Fuelly, where thousands of people who own these trucks post their real-world fuel mileage with millions of miles of data, the new F250 does not get better fuel mileage than the new 2500. The new F350 is near identical to what the 3500 has been getting for a while.
With a smorgasbord of information you can pick out want you want to believe. I think what TFLT did seemed reasonable and I have no reason to doubt their mpg findings. I haven’t looked at Fuely but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that the Ram owners most concerned with fuel mileage who are most apt to post on Fuely are also most apt to buy the lower power/higher compression ratio variant of the Cummins. Does the HO use a little more fuel?
