Neutral: While I’ve never owned a VW, this whole fiasco hasn’t turned me off to them. Germans are historically excellent at eating crow. In fact I think crow pie is the national dish. WWI, WWII, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rammstein. They’re routinely in the global eye as “precise, fastidious and prone to epic…

Leave it to a German car to be the subject of such a questionable engine swap.

Haven’t driven an F450. Have driven an S-Class. Have driven hundreds of vehicles as a professional designated driver. Am able to make educated comments about vehicles. Am also able to make inflammatory comments that provoke conversation. Can you guess which one I’m doing now?

How could I possibly prove you wrong on a comment/reply section of a website? So instead I’m just going to default to saying “you’re wrong” and patiently await your reply, because that’s going to be as effective anything else I can do.

A truck that size can tow it’s own high-brow event. Also, it’s probably a regional thing, but up north you see more glossy pickup trucks than anything else at the country club. Canadian wealth, amirite?

I buried my pedal deep in the shag/me boys, me boys/an engine so grand, the turbo (much lag)/me boys, me boys/coal-rolling burnouts are a sight to see/me boys, me boys/it’s a shame that diesel ain’t free/me boys, me boys

Absolutely! Using KBB with as close to equal comparison is possible a 2015 S-Class comes to $70k and $75k on the F450 for the same model year.

Awe, we’ve devolved to “name calling”. Alright, bro. You do you. Whatever that means.

When chrome is a shinin’/bonny lasses be whinin’/and scotch, rum and ale. The seas be harsh/this craft be posh/and scotch, rum and ale.

There’s the blind brand loyalty I’ve been looking for this whole time. If you just started with that, it’d be great. I don’t even own a car!

Yeah, nothing I’ve written is sarcastic. Sarcasm translates poorly on the internet. You generally have to do something like #eyeroll for that to get across. I’m 100% serious that if you’ve got $100,000 to blow that a F450 would make way more sense than a Merc S-Class. Thinking differently is fine, it’s just wrong.

Let’s not assume for a second that this F450 will be anything like a regular, working grade F450. Closest comparison I could make is a 3500 Denali, which though firm in ride is nothing like the Silverado 3500 I drove for a customer. That one bounced around like a cheerleader on a trampoline. Hold on, I’ll be right…

So as to stymie the conversation, the point I was making is there’s a lot of ways to spend $100,000 on a luxury automobile. People tend to like concrete facts like “numbers” in these sorts of comparisons, thus power and weight seemed pretty rudimentary. I could also write a haiku about the truck if you’re poetically…

So we’ve narrowed down the 195 countries on planet Earth to “America” and “the south of France”.

I’m so dead serious it’s not even funny.

Having driven both an S-Class and a luxo-truck I can tell you that the only difference in ride quality comes when you run into something. The truck wins. Before that, they’re pretty much identical. Don’t assume F-450 means rock hard suspension. This Limited will be softer than a toasted marshmallow.

Yes...by 23. And 920 is 409 more than 516. Aggregate concepts.

That’s amazing that on the internet you’d immediately assume I’m an American. Only an American assumes he’s only dealing with Americans online.

$100,000. The F-450 vs Merc S-Class comparison.