A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
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Re: A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
Those fords
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Re: A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
Yepper! In my business, Telecom, with remote sites all over the Mojave Desert, often with no cell coverage (or Railroad Radio), a 15, 20 mile walk out in 120 degree heat in the summer if you break down, you can understand why I'm picky about my trucks and tires.Mike Clay wrote:Those fords
Jeff
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Re: A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
I knew it!Chief409 wrote:Yeah Rob, there might be a new truck coming. When are we gonna hear about yours?
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, who doesn't want a new truck? The problem is I keep seeing the price and if you know me at all my enthusiasm quickly fades away. Then when I'm cruising down the road with the trailer in tow my enthusiasm for a newer truck really fades away.
Rob
Re: A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
I believe that is just in the F250 and F350. I believe the V10 is still available in the F450 and up.dfredendall wrote:I have seen on Ford literature that they have discontinued the 6.8 ltr V-10 engine. Now offer only the new diesel and a large V8 engine (approx 371 cu. in.).
Rob
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Till you get to the top of that REALLY LONG GRIND up a high pass, with a headwind, and look at the gas gauge, then you really get interested in the next available gas! Had a V10, been there, done THAT!Rob & Cathy wrote:I knew it!Chief409 wrote:Yeah Rob, there might be a new truck coming. When are we gonna hear about yours?
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, who doesn't want a new truck? The problem is I keep seeing the price and if you know me at all my enthusiasm quickly fades away. Then when I'm cruising down the road with the trailer in tow my enthusiasm for a newer truck really fades away.
Rob
With the price of gas and diesel now, a 2 or 3 MPG improvement adds up to some impressive savings over, say, 20,000 miles (which is why I'm looking, by the way. I was shocked when I ran the numbers). Not to mention the sheer joy of passing stop after stop you used to make! Stops become more of a human factor thing, like bladder time!
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Re: A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
Mike, I thought the only image of those new Fords that you see is a mirror image!Mike Clay wrote:Those fords
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Re: A first look at the 2012 Super Duty
I would like to see those numbers Jeff. For me to spend $50K+ for a new truck to get me to the same places my current truck gets me would take some serious numbers. And remember we're retired. We just cruise down the road at 60 MPH and enjoying the sights. OK, I did have to slow down to 50 going over Lookout Pass. But how much of the trip is that? Maybe a half hour.Chief409 wrote:With the price of gas and diesel now, a 2 or 3 MPG improvement adds up to some impressive savings over, say, 20,000 miles (which is why I'm looking, by the way. I was shocked when I ran the numbers)
But keep trying Jeff as you never know when I might just pull the trigger.
Rob
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Well true Chris but I have been labeled a trouble maker can you believe it so I just sit here and keep my mouth shut In your dreams. After 5 Dodges and 2 Chevys i doubt I would get a Ford but that does not mean i think they are a bad truck. Maybe my next truck will be a Ford
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Mike, I have a 2011 Ford SD DVD I can mail you. Would that help?
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Now Rob you know and I know you will not get a new truck or trailer, both of your rigs are in great shape.
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LOL maybe next year
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Easy numbers Rob. 20,000 miles, your current MPG, and a ball park, your best guess for the future price per gallon. Then run the same figures with a increase of MPG.Rob & Cathy wrote:I would like to see those numbers Jeff. For me to spend $50K+ for a new truck to get me to the same places my current truck gets me would take some serious numbers. And remember we're retired. We just cruise down the road at 60 MPH and enjoying the sights. OK, I did have to slow down to 50 going over Lookout Pass. But how much of the trip is that? Maybe a half hour.Chief409 wrote:With the price of gas and diesel now, a 2 or 3 MPG improvement adds up to some impressive savings over, say, 20,000 miles (which is why I'm looking, by the way. I was shocked when I ran the numbers)
But keep trying Jeff as you never know when I might just pull the trigger.
Rob
Note, I'm not even factoring in maintenance for higher mileage vehicles. Tires, brakes, etc. Or tax breaks for a new vehicle. Just fuel.
With the current and future prices of fuel, an increase of a couple of MPG over 20K miles adds up. A bunch.
Jeff
PS: It ALL depends on Washington D.C. though. Can't buy anything if a good chunk of my income (Military Retirement) isn't there.
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My financial advisor says the cheapest vehicle you will ever own is the one you already own. Chris
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Chris, your financial advisor doesn't own a 1985 5.8 Bronco, with a completely rebuilt engine, that can't pass a California smog inspection because the $850 Factory reman Holly carb has the wrong part number on the throttle body. Plus it has 4 Goodrich All Terrain tires with less then 500 miles on them. Yeah, I know old vehicles, I've had the Bronco since 1986, bought it from my Navigator after he got married and couldn't make the payments!snoking wrote:My financial advisor says the cheapest vehicle you will ever own is the one you already own. Chris
I'm considering making it a planter, with a bronze plaque celebrating the sheer stupidity of California bureaucrats!
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I have a friend who's looking for a Bronco II.Chief409 wrote:a 1985 5.8 Bronco, with a completely rebuilt engine, that can't pass a California smog inspection because the $850 Factory reman Holly carb has the wrong part number on the throttle body. Plus it has 4 Goodrich All Terrain tires with less then 500 miles on them. Yeah, I know old vehicles, I've had the Bronco since 1986, bought it from my Navigator after he got married and couldn't make the payments!
I'm considering making it a planter, with a bronze plaque celebrating the sheer stupidity of California bureaucrats!
Jeff