wilber1 wrote:
Kevin O. wrote:
wilber1 wrote:
Fordlover wrote:
I love when people say "0-60 times don't matter to me"
I bet if you were truck shopping, and had a choice between two otherwise similar trucks, one did 0-60 in 8 seconds, the other in 20 seconds, everyone would go for the 8 second truck. Acceleration in the 20 second truck would be a painfully slow process.
Well if you want to get that stupid about it I guess everyone should be towing with Raptors or SRT10's
Actually I think the Ecoboost F150 is faster than the Raptor.. :)
Guess that just leaves the SRT10 then. You would not be looking at otherwise similar trucks. We just had a thread where a Dodge Cummins beat a Tundra to 60 towing 5700 lbs. Empty the Tundra would eat the diesels lunch so which 0-60 would be most important to you?
Can confirm, Eco will beat a Raptor, and it brings up a good point, why? The 6.2 Raptor has more HP and Torque, so what is the difference? Tires and gearing...So many manufactures are getting EPA ratings for their trucks with the tallest gearing possible and the smallest/lightest wheel tire combo. Most of us wouldn't be caught dead towing with that combo.
0-60 towing isn't on my list of stats that I want to see. Why? Because how many times do you have your foot all the way down with a trailer behind you? I don't get myself into situations where I need to do that with my Raptor and I'm sure as hell not doing it for fun.
I think I tow a lot with my truck and it accounts for about 25% of the mileage right now (btw, the F150's in dash display keeps track of this for you). So why would I sacrifice 0-60 in 75% of my driving? Unloaded stats matter because 99% of the miles on these trucks are done that way.
