F-150 Eco Boost Towing Vs Nissan Titan

[jejeosborne]

Yes I liked the Suzuki as well. I am wondering why someone doesn't make a jeep comparable anymore. Jeeps are so popular with every demographic. Someone just needs to make a street friendly version and it would be a home run. Maybe a Subaru based driveline with a 1.0 liter turbo motor with a top that easily folds back. I am drooling just thinking about it.

 

[Diamondpilot]

They'd probably still be around if Consumer Reports hadn't killed them. I ran into one really odd problem. I had the dealer install an aftermarket cruise control, since Suzuki didn't offer one. It only worked about a week and quit; had gasoline in the servo. Of course they had spliced into a vacuum line. So they put a new servo on it and neither they nor I could figure out how gasoline got into the servo. But the second unit went the same way as the first one. So they then installed an entirely different, all electric cruise and it worked just fine.

I also ordered a hardtop from J.C. Whitney and put on it.

I had originally intended to tow it behind a motorhome when I retired, but in the meantime my wife was driving it to work, and then we decided on a fifth-wheel instead of motorhome. So she drove that Samurai back and forth to work 3 years, 45k miles, and then when we became full time RVers, I sold the Samurai back to the dealer I'd bought it from. And other than oil & filter changes every 3k miles, the only service or repair was a new battery the week before I sold it.

People used to ask me what I thought of it and I'd tell them it was sorry excuse for a car, but a great toy and lots of fun.:laughing:

My college roommate had one my freshman year. It was around a 89 and was unstoppable. I also had a 89 S-10 Blazzer and it would stomp all over it off road. We used to take it in water up to the doors and his had about 31" tires on it which were big for that rig back then. Tons of fun but cold as heck in the winter and squirmy on the highway.

Chris

 

[Bird]

My college roommate had one my freshman year. It was around a 89 and was unstoppable. I also had a 89 S-10 Blazzer and it would stomp all over it off road. We used to take it in water up to the doors and his had about 31" tires on it which were big for that rig back then. Tons of fun but cold as heck in the winter and squirmy on the highway.

Chris

Ours was an '86 model and with the hardtop and air-conditioning, it was comfortable enough year round. And with the cruise control, we made a couple 350 mile trips to the Texas coast and the OEM tires made it handle pretty well on the highway. But 25 mpg isn't great gas mileage for that small an engine and vehicle.

 

[Egon]

We had an 85 and an 86 hardtop. Just loved them. Great toy for transportation.

Now I always wonder about how it would have fared in the crash tests??

 

[jejeosborne]

We had an 85 and an 86 hardtop. Just loved them. Great toy for transportation.

Now I always wonder about how it would have fared in the crash tests??

My bet would have be not very good but then again I am surprised the wrangler does so well. Also, I am surprised the new VW beetle gets good frontal ratings. I enjoy looking at how well cars and trucks do in the offset crash test. The 1997-2003 Ford 150 was terrible in the offset test but the new model is the leader in the pack in all test. The IIHS has saved many lives with these tests.

 

[slowzuki]

I've got whole, parts and pieces of 4 samurais, and 2 sidekicks. The sidekicks are a whole world more comfortable but just aren't the same off-road. I've spent a lot of time in the online zuk communities and in scrap yards the last, hmm, well 20 years now, but I've never seen a totalled samurai in person, and I've only seen a couple online that were in a road roll over. One stock one from loosing it at highway speed on black ice and getting sideways, one was lifted on 33" tires and emergency lane changed.

They do not have energy absorbing frame sections, crush zones, side intrusion beams, air bags (my driver was an 85 with no roll bar even). All they have are seat belts and a collapsing steering column. You tend to drive pretty carefully.

 

[clemsonfor]

my buddy flipped his zuk when on 31"s offroad then just flipped it over and craked it up and started it up and wheeled the rest of the day. Hes now converting it into a custom rock buggy at this point.

 

[Diamondpilot]

13,500 miles now on the F150 Eco Boost 3.73 FX4 and the average mpg since new is 18.9

Chris

 

[Bird]

13,500 miles now on the F150 Eco Boost 3.73 FX4 and the average mpg since new is 18.9

Chris

That's a little better than my 18.452 mpg with a 4.0L engine in my 2001 Ford Ranger.

 

[xtn]

18.9 huh? That's about what my 2003 Superduty 6.0L Diesel 4x4 crewcab used to average (excluding towing) before they fed a new program into the black box a couple of years ago.

xtn

PS - I'm sure somebody is going to jump on me about comparing apples and oranges, but I'm not trying to do that. I'm just making an observation and complaining about sneaky dealerships that change your programming when you're in for an oil change.