The 5.4L is fine as long as you dont tow a big trailer. The 5.4L is a little bit underpowered in an F-250 and it wont get any better gas milage than a V10.

 

True, but an F-150 rides and handles like a luxury sportscar compared to an F-250.
The F-250 is a purpose-built heavy-duty worktruck and ride quality is sacraficed in order to make the F-250 a tougher truck that can handle a harder life.

 

That's very true...

 

My point exactly!...no car/truck for me. That includes the luxury sports car type truck too. Fine for other folks who like/need/want that, but not me.

For my purpose:

F150 = pick up
F250+= truck

 

I drive mine every day to, during and from work. I don't mind the gas mileage, it's 1 mpg worse then my 2003 F150 I had before it, and it's almost a ton heavier. I don't mind the harsh ride either, but trying to park it in a tight parking lot is next to impossible. It's incredible what my 250 can do, anything from running the family to Sunday dinner with my parents, to hauling all my tools in the back of the cab, hauling 12' lengths of rock, hauling a ton of construction debris to the dump, towing a 26' travel trailer up Thompson Pass out of Valdez (a looooong uphill grade) and still returning 12 mpg with 750 lbs of halibut and other fish in the bed. I'll be buying F250's for the rest of my life!

 

Winter fuel + front hubs stuck in lock = 15 mpg
And that figure is not from granny driving either.

 

15mpg (Diesel) is very good considering locked hubs. My 06 V10 F250 gets about 13~14mpg hwy and 10~11 city. I bet that I would get about 8.5~9.5 with my hubs locked...if I'm lucky

 

my f-350 is my daily driver.

 

I hope to be in a 250 crew cab 4x4 King Ranch soon for my daily driver! I need something with more payload capacity to haul around my little 17mo girl though
From watching my dad's mileage and comparing to my own, he gets the same if not 2-3mpg better in his diesel work truck than I get in my empty 5.4 non-work truck. And with the ecu flash I am running right now, I have to run premium so the $ difference between diesel and premium won't be worth noticing
Seems like a perfect daily driver to me (as long as you don't have to do a lot of small city street parking or something hehe).

 

I use my 06 F250 as a daily driver. Yeah, the price of diesel hurts, but what the he**, I bought it to pull my camper and as a daily driver. I filled her up Wednesday morning and again Friday afternoon. The Friday fill-up cost me $96.00

 

My 08 F250 rides better than my 04 F150 did. I don't know where you are getting all your "facts". The only thing that was better on my 04 F150 were the brakes...and they weren't really better. The truck just weighed less. Have you driven an 08 F250 lately?

 

Me too...and nice looking truck!

 

Freeky, Octane is correct. There is no way a truck capable of carrying the payload an F-250 can carry will ride like a 1/2 ton. It's just not in the components. The difference in springs is incredible, and the weight of the boxes (bed) between the two trucks isn't enough to make the 250 ride better on the stiffer springs.

I know your brand new 2008 rides like a Caddy, but wait until you get some miles on it. They ALL ride like Caddies when they are new. I'm not saying yours will ride like a lumber wagon after 30,000 miles, but it will not ride like it does now. You'll probably never notice it until you take a new 2010 for a test ride while yours is in the shop for an oil change. Trust me. My butt has well over a few hundred thousand miles in diesel Superduties since 1999, and every time I get in a 1/2 ton, there is a remarked difference. My kiester has cracked an additional inch because of it.

As for all of you saying you'll never buy anything but a Superduty again, well, that maybe so. You are coming into the age of newer technology and a better ride than previous generations, but I am willing to bet most of you probably don't sit it the saddle close to 25-30 hours a week. It does get to be tiring.

 

Yeah...but who woundn't get tired driving ANTHING 25-30 hours a week every week.

 

My dads 06 250 (loaded with tools and refrigerant!) has 98,600 miles on it (so it isn't brand new) and it rides just as smooth as my 03 F150 with only 52,000 miles on the clock. Other than braking and sharp turning his rides just as nice as mine. The only reason it doesn't brake and turn as quick is that thing called WEIGHT. The truck itself weighs more, and loaded with all the **** he has to carry it weighs a lot more. *shrug* I have ridden in and driven 04+ F150s and they just don't feel much (if any) different than my 03.

Super Duty's are obviously bigger, heavier trucks but to say F150s are smoother is not really that much smoother enough to even bother commenting on. Handling and braking? Definitely a big difference