2009 Ford F-150 SuperCrew Lariat vs. 2009 Toyota Tundra SuperCrew Limited - MotorTrend Magazine
If you follow the San Andreas Fault on a map, from its southern origins near the Salton Sea, it points along a 10-o'clock angle, gradually nearing the Pacific Ocean for 745 miles until it finally glances past San Francisco and then disappears near... Unlike the celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, the Calaveras Fault is aseismic. " Gradually, the center of Hollister is being sheared in two, but so hyperglacially that its edifices are simply twisting with it. On their evening strolls along 4th and 6th Streets, pedestrians have acclimated themselves to their sidewalk's... Two years ago, Toyota began its own slow rearrangement of the truck world's continents with the introduction of the new Tundra. Built in a brand-new factory in San Antonio, Texas -- the beating heart of the nation's truck body -- the Tundra seemed to have distilled the thick biographies of Detroit's traditional pickups so potently, picked it as Motor Trend's 2008 Truck of... Snaking up along scenic Route 25, we bisected some of the loveliest cattle country you'll ever see to pay a visit to the Appel Ranch, located about 20 miles south of Hollister (and thanks, Mary and John, for your hospitality). The perfect playground to let 4x4 trucks off their leashes. Both our F-150 and Tundra are the ne-plus-ultra mega-cab, stubby-bed types, the Ford being a SuperCrew Lariat with a 5. 5-foot box tacked on (base price, $39,435), the Toyota, a CrewMax Limited trailing a similarly abbreviated bed ($42,405). And... Source: www.motortrend.com
