best truck in the U.S.?

We have a Ford Super Duty here at work....when we need to punish someone, we make 'em take it for a drive. Handles like a drunken whale, the seats are horrible, and it has averaged 7.5mpg over its lifetime.

I have had good luck with both Chevy and (currently) Dodge. I love my 2003 hemi with added ram air intake and Borla exhaust - 95K, and the only issue has been to replace front brake rotors that liked to warp.

I'm guessin' there's good and bad of each brand, and like it has been stated, you need to match up with what you will be using it for.
 
I've got a '10 Chevy Silverado longbed. 25K miles on it, still as tight as the day I bought it. It is my 4th Chevy P/U since 1987 ('95, '03, and this one) I have never spent a dime on repairs except for the '95 S-10. The battery cracked in the heat and ate through the main cable harness. Cost about $150 to fix it. Tires last so long these days I replaced the factory ones once. And batteries last about 3 summers around here no matter how expensive one you buy. I would buy another one. Joe
 
I have an Ford F-250 SD Diesel 8' bed, that I chipped, 22/16 mpg. It will pull a full sized tractor on a 2000lb trailer and you will not feel it. It's quiet inside and comfortable. I can put 5 adult people in it comfortably. It's gotten me in and out of snow, mud, sand and everything else I've gotten it into. I can haul our camping gear and a week's worth of wood easy. Is it the best, who knows, but it's a good one.

I could haul a Tacoma in my bed, sorry, that's not what we call a truck around here. Trucks are a tool, not transportation from A to B for us. The Tundra's a good truck, but it's limited in towing, my Dad destroyed his towing a trailer up the Mountain.

...and as others have said, my truck's number one attribute..it's paid for!!!
 
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my dad has a 2010 Ford F250 King Ranch lariat diesel with about 90,000 miles on it and that is the best truck ever!! he had an '05 Ford f150 king ranch and the leather seats were very soft but they scratched up easily. the 250 is much better and more durable.

we hunt together and we once got it stuck. our friend had nice chevy 2500 try to pull us out but he then got stuck.

the one bad thing about 4WD is that you only get stuck further away from the road!!
 
gregintenn said:
Toyota. They seem to last forever.
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Indeed - I bought a 4x4 Toyota new in 1985. The second owner, who I knew, died last year. It is still going strong for the third owner, who I know, and has never had any internal engine work needed.
 
Best truck? That's easy.

All depends on which one I own at a particular time.;):rolleyes:

I got a new Chevy Silverado, so I reckon it's the best around.
 
For me its my 74 F-100. Right now its finishing up a rebuild of the 390 V8. It didn't need a full rebuild but since the motor was going to be apart for some freshening up with new seals I decided to spend the money and overhaul the motor and add some headers and Thrush glasspacks. When I bought this truck it ran with some skipping which turned out to be the plug wires crossed. Still when we put it on the trailer this old Ford with non-posi rearend shoved the trailer and a F-250 down the road with its parking brake on. That's a tough old beast, I can't wait until the motor is all done to see what it will do on an open stretch. Then the body work begins, which isn't all that bad considering the age.

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We have a mix of Chevy's and Fords at the shop, with the older ones (the Ford 7.3 diesel is a tough engine, one has 600,000 miles on it now) it's a toss up with the Chevy's. We have about 25 trucks in our fleet.
With the newer ones the Ford (6L and 6.3L) diesels are a piece of junk, turbo's/waste gates/EGR valves/heads and rear ends only lasting 10,000 miles or so before the breaking again . Ford did fix them under warranty, I will give them that much, but after the warranty was gone the repair cost were in the thousands. The boss said no more Fords.
I believe there is a class action lawsuit in the works against Ford.
It's Chevy's and Dodges being bought now. The Duro-Max Chevy's and Cummings Dodge's just keep hammering along.
I drive Suburban's and get around 300,000 miles out of them.
All our trucks get regular oil changes/filters etc., the guys have to give the receipts for the routine maintenance to the ladies in the office to get their pay checks.
I do all my own work on mine.
 
I bought a 2005 Tacoma 4 door new. I don't put a lot of miles on one. last year I decided that I did not need a truck anymore. I traded it on a 2011 Subaru Outback that I love. They gave me 15,500 trade on a truck that I paid 24,000 for and drove for 5 years. If I need another truck, I would buy another Tacoma.

I compared the Tacoma to a friends 1997 F-150. They were almost the same size. Now the new F-150 is just too large for my taste.
 
Just a little something to set my F150 apart from the others ...:cool:
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Early on all I ever had was Ford.My Dad was a Ford man so I was too.They were all great trucks but I kept 'em for 2 years and traded them on new ones.Times were good then.Then the lean years hit and I had to buy old beaters and work on my own junk.Then I became a mechanic to replace my steel mill job and discovered that the General Motors products were a whole lot easier to work on,at least from my viewpoint.I really loved the way Fords rode and they always seemed to be quieter too.But I became a GM guy about 1987 and been that way since.They're all good but consider this,most of the Toyotas are built here and I personally know two people who have had their Toyota trucks bought back by Toyota because of frames rotting making the vehicle unsafe.My best friend had a 1998 Isuzu bought back by Isuzu for the same issue.I now own a 2007 Chevy extended cab which I bought new in Feb 2007.I get 23 mpg on the highway and 16 mpg around town.Just rolled 54,000 miles and only 1 set of front brakes at 48,000.It is 4wd but at my age it's a sissy truck,no off roading
anymore,just ready for bad weather and hauling my quad during deer season.But if the frame ever rots out I really don't expect a phone call from GM telling me they will buy it back.
 
My best buddy tells me his Ford F250 Powerstroke Diesel is the greatest truck on the highway and my lowly little Dodge Dakota is a piece of junk. He still says that, even though we had to ride home once in a wrecker towing his F250 and I have pulled this same F250 home behind my "junk" Dakota with a tow strap on two separate occasions....:) I have had two Dakotas that went 150k+ with nothing beyond the normal maint schedule.
That said, a truck needs to be sized to the use you will give it and properly maintained. Buying a light duty S10 or Ranger and trying to haul around two ton loads ain't gonna give you long service. Poor driving habits can increase mechanical failures.
 
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