Ford F150 or Toyota Tundra or ???

[little wing]

Try a Silverado with trailer tire pressure/temperature sensors and a boat mounted camera, both shown on the vehicle's display. Add to that the in-dash trailer brake controller and you're living fat city.

 

[T.R. Bauer]

The Chevy 1500 is a good truck and a good value, but the 5.3 is underpowered compared to the competition. And to get the 6.2, which is gem, you have to spend a small fortune. But you do get hand made leather seats with gold inlays crafted by someone with an accent! Also, and this is personal opinion, the new ones are really ugly. It's like they were trying to be really ugly. BTW, not buying that Toyota is superior engineered to the Chevy or the Ford trucks for even a second as all of them with go 250,000 miles and probably much further with a responsible and conscientious driver.

 

[Chester]

Thanks for all the responses! I will test drive both trucks. On the ford, I hear a lot about the eco-boost 6 cylinder with turbo. Does anyone have experience towing with that engine?

We have a 1st generation Ecoboost, 2013, and it's great.
The EB has been on the market for over a decade and is proven.

 

[PaulNBriannaLynn]

The Chevy 1500 is a good truck and a good value, but the 5.3 is underpowered compared to the competition. And to get the 6.2, which is gem, you have to spend a small fortune. But you do get hand made leather seats with gold inlays crafted by someone with an accent! Also, and this is personal opinion, the new ones are really ugly. It's like they were trying to be really ugly. BTW, not buying that Toyota is superior engineered to the Chevy or the Ford trucks for even a second as all of them with go 250,000 miles and probably much further with a responsible and conscientious driver.[/quo

We're towing our 22 cruiser with a 2016 GMC Sierra 1500 these days. The 355 horses seems more than enough for us. One nice thing about that engine is it shuts down half to run on 4 cylinders when going down the highway. That gets us 19 - 20 mpg usually on trips. Its also a very comfortable truck for long trips. I needed a windshield washer pump last summer, I went to NAPA and the new pump was 15 bucks. Try that with an import and get back to me.

Ill preface this by saying I'm a big Toyota fan, and have had and loved a corolla wagon, as well as a couple land cruisers. But Toyota has not kept up with the pack on MPG with the Tundra. That iForce v8 was awesome when it came out in 2007, and they made it bigger in 2019, but it didn't improve mileage. It's still a really nice truck, and I seriously considered a used one, but the low MPG was a big turnoff compared to its competitors.

Anyway its a lot like modern outboard motors these days. They are building them well enough now you probably cant go wrong with any of them. Its more a matter of which flavor you prefer.

 

[little wing]

They are building them well enough now you probably cant go wrong with any of them. Its more a matter of which flavor you prefer.

and how far away a dealer is for when you need dealer service.

+1 for the FJ40

 

[hardee]

Not a truck, but should have been:
My 84 Toyota Tercel 4WD Wagon. 860,000 miles and still going when I sold it.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

 

[T.R. Bauer]

Wow - that's a great Tercel! A friend of mine works in Anchorage and his driven his Silverado to work and back each day for nearly 20 years. The last time we talked about it, his truck was at 600,000 or so miles and the only major thing he has replaced is the transmission. The truck still looks great and he would drive it anywhere. I'm not really impressed much with making 200,000 or 300,000 miles as just about anything will do that these days, but when you crack 500,000 it is a wow statement for sure!

 

[dotnmarty]

Not a truck, but should have been:
My 84 Toyota Tercel 4WD Wagon. 860,000 miles and still going when I sold it.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

...and you could tow a 16 footer with it.

 

[hardee]

Not a truck, but should have been:
My 84 Toyota Tercel 4WD Wagon. 860,000 miles and still going when I sold it.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

...and you could tow a 16 footer with it.

Well Yes Marty, I could - - -almost, but I sold it an replaced it with a Subaru Outback. I regretted that move 120,000 miles later. (Head gaskets and main bearings.)

But my Tercel Wagon never let me down.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

This is where the photo of the Blue Tercel Wagon goes. It is parked on the top of a snow pile that is close enough to the top of the parking lot lights at Logan Regional Hospital, Winter of 1997-8. I am standing with one hand on the car and one hand on the street light.

 

[MikeR]

Lots of great points made here. Earlier in life always considered myself a Chevy guy, but in the last 10 years have had a couple of Fords and Toyotas....

2003 F250 w/ V10 - purchased w/ 210,000 miles from a buddy- never any engine problems and it was very reliable.

2007 F250 diesel- inherited from dad w/ only 70,000 miles- perhaps most unreliable vehicle I’ve ever owned but then again it was the infamous 6.0 L so I quickly traded that in. Both F250s had a plethora of annoying little electrical issues and both felt “cheap” compared to previous Chevys and other vehicles I owned, though both were about 10 years old at the times I owned them. Swore never to own another Ford thanks solely to the 6.0 experience.

2012 Toyota RAV4- purchased new from a Toyota dealer- maybe worst car and worst dealership experience, long story but that car was probably a lemon and I swore never to own another Toyota again as a result. BUT...

That 2007 F250, traded it in on a 2019 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road (from a different Toyota dealership!), so far LOVING it, keep saying will be the last truck I ever buy. But it was not bought as a tow vehicle, it’s more like my version of a Sunday-driver sports car. Ear-to-ear smile every time I drive it. It’s no Tundra but a buddy has a Tundra and and has towed some big heavy loads, says power is fantastic.

Regarding the GM 5.3L - my 2003 GMC Sierra 1500 4wd 2-door w/5.3 drove like a muscle car, towed a 21’ Trophy with ease, and when not towing had to try not to burn rubber at every light- fun truck and “underpowered” is the last description that would have come to mind. But then again that was in 2003.

So as to which truck to buy- maybe flip a coin? And then get the 4wd version for sure!

-Mike

 

[T.R. Bauer]

"underpower compared to the competition" is what I said. And it is. I never said it was underpowered in actual usage and there is a difference. My wife's old 5.7 suburban with 200,000 plus miles on it isn't underpowered either, and it's not, until you compare it to a 6.2 GM V8. And then it is.....