Driving the 2015 Ford F-Series Super Duty, the big dogs in Detroit - Yahoo Singapore News
To drive that point home (well, far from home for us), Ford brought us to rural West Virginia, along with the 2015 F-250, F-350 and F-450 Super Duties and comparable GM and Ram rigs, each loaded up with something close their trailering max. First up was the big, stonkin’ F-450 dually, in which we rode shotgun with a Ford engineer, since we would have needed a commercial driver’s license in order to legally tow the 30,000-pound fifth-wheel trailer that was hooked up to it. We repeated... Not surprisingly, the Super Duty trucks ruled the day, maintaining 50–55 mph as we ascended the four-mile grade, with even the fully loaded F-450 passing the Ram, which dropped into the mid-40s at full throttle. The F-450’s ride was quite rough, and the engine seemed louder than the Ram’s at full tilt, though when it comes to pulling such heavy loads up hills and, if necessary, summoning passing power to overcome slower rigs, noise is usually the least of... We repeated the exercises in the F-350 and comparable Silverado and Ram one-tonners with gargantuan fifth-wheel RV trailers and found that, once again, the Super Duty trucks took the hill with the least loss of speed and very little gear-hunting... Source: www.yahoo.com
