I agree, automatics are garbage and I would rather drive a manual in almost every situation. My ‘16 F350 is the first auto I spent my own money on simply because a manual isn’t offered in the Super Duties anymore. To my surprise, it is actually a really good box, although it likes to run to 6th gear as quick as it…

A crew cab F350. Off the showroom floor it didn’t weigh near that much, but with the bigger wheels and tires, 50 gallon fuel tank, canopy, and all the camping/offroad gear that I keep packed in it for last minute trips, it scales in right about 8,800 pounds.

You’re being reckless with a 3000lb missile...

Aside from the fact that if you wrecked your insurance won’t cover you and you are likely to face civil and criminal penalties if you hurt someone...

I travel down Cabbage Hill at least a few times a year, most of the time with my trailer in tow, and have never had the brakes come close to overheating, and that’s keeping up with the flow of traffic, which is usually 55-65 mph. I also only use the service brakes a couple times down that grade for some of the sharper…

It’s not just Jalopnik; EVERY Internet forum suffers the same plague of people commenting without reading.

I’m a big fan of the collar on my FoST; there’s no accidental shifts to R when aiming for 1st.

Some people think it reduces wear on the trans. I’m highly doubtful, but an acquaintance has an ‘02 Super Duty with the weak auto that usually needs rebuilt every 120K, and he is on the original trans at well over 200K miles. He shifts to neutral at every light and swears that’s what’s kept it going so long. He also…

As others have said, no problem at all. My ‘16 F350 is the first auto I’ve voluntarily owned as well, and it happens to have basically the same trans as your F150. It’s one of the few autos I can thoroughly enjoy driving.

Hopefully Honda has addressed the weak transmission issues, because if they haven’t, people regularly towing this kind of weight in a Ridgeline will become good friends with their local transmission shop.

Fortunately his windows were rolled up! If not, that would be a complete write off. Hopefully the sunroof was closed, too!

I would like to expand on the “when they are the worst” part is every time you take it out and discover more costly maintenance that needs to be done. This year alone I’ll have dropped over $6K in maintenance and repairs on my travel trailer by the time I’m done fixing the latest discovery; frame cracks at the spring…

Crack pipe all day long! Add $3K more and you’re in brand new GT350 territory. I love the E28, E34, and E39 M5s and hope to have one of them in my garage at some point, but this asking price is completely bonkers. It’s within $7K of what I paid for my fully loaded ‘16 F350 6.7 4x4 Crew Cab Lariat!

The rumor I heard is the guy that owns this truck is quite active on the Raptor forums and actually rebuilt it and still drives the hell out of it.

That Prius driver must have been a recent Bay Area transplant; we have had quite the influx of those recently. I’d bet most native Portland hybrid drivers have never dared to venture north of 50 MPH.

Not quite! I still live in the metro area and own a F350, Focus ST, and 733i. A friend of mine that lives in SE Portland actually just sold his ‘05 LGT (wagon, manual!) and chose a tastefully lifted ‘99 Cherokee for his daily driver, so Subarus haven’t quite taken over yet.

There certainly are a boatload of Subarus here in Portland, but sadly I doubt they they outnumber the Prii yet. As bland as most of these Subarus are, I’d rather see them all day long than a Prius, although owners of both cars tend to irrationally drive in the left lane on the freeway at 10 MPH below the speed limit.

Another cross-post of a complete horseshit political diatribe, and what a surprise it comes from Raph. Keep this crap off Jalopnik; there’s plenty of other Gawker pages that welcome this garbage.

Yep. One of the first mods I did do my ‘16 was replace the 4wd air dam with the shorter 2wd one. Pretty easy to do, although there are bumper over-ride assemblies bolted to the frame and hiding behind that large air dam that also have to be removed. I’m sure those are there to meet bumper height requirements, and I’m…

It’s scary how they were able to fill up such a massive space under that hood. There’s more room in the engine bay of my ST than there is in my 6.7.