Mikes91
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I gotta hand it to Dodge...
My wife and I looked at the '06 Ram 3500s after church today, and just to be fair also looked at the new Super Duties.
Quad cab vs extended cab.
I sat in the Ford and after sitting in the Dodge just could not believe how cheap the XLT's interior felt compared to the Ram SLT's...
To boot, I adjusted the front seats on both trucks to the postions I'd normally use when driving. When sitting in the back of the Ford's extended cab, I felt scrunched. In the Dodge I felt a little more room--DEFINITELY bigger seats in the quad cab.
The dash of the Ford is a joke. Looks like stuff that belongs on athletic gear or in a stadium. It *did* have a bigger glovebox than the Dodge, but there was much less storage space in the fold-down center seat back and no storage below it. The controls in the Dodge feel like they're much better quality-wise. Didn't take the 6.0 for a run... didn't even start it... but I couldn't live with the interior of the Ford so any advantage the 6.0 *might* have is lost. The sticker on the Ford was also higher than the Dodge. $43k for an F-250 4x4 with similar equipment to a $38k Ram 2500. Of course, the Ford salesman said he could offer me $3500 for my '91 F-350 and get me out the door for $1000 UNDER invoice.
HAHAHAHAHA. Whatever. This is the same dealership that told me 3% OVER invoice 5 months ago.
Anyway... Just thought I'd report my findings. I've been Ford through and through since I started driving trucks in 1995, but their quality seems to have really gone downhill and the interior ergonomics just aren't there. If new Chevy's are anything like my wife's 2000 Silverado on the inside, then I'd have to say Dodge *really* has a winning combination and is, relative to the Ford, an EXCELLENT value.
Mike
My wife and I looked at the '06 Ram 3500s after church today, and just to be fair also looked at the new Super Duties.
Quad cab vs extended cab.
I sat in the Ford and after sitting in the Dodge just could not believe how cheap the XLT's interior felt compared to the Ram SLT's...
To boot, I adjusted the front seats on both trucks to the postions I'd normally use when driving. When sitting in the back of the Ford's extended cab, I felt scrunched. In the Dodge I felt a little more room--DEFINITELY bigger seats in the quad cab.
The dash of the Ford is a joke. Looks like stuff that belongs on athletic gear or in a stadium. It *did* have a bigger glovebox than the Dodge, but there was much less storage space in the fold-down center seat back and no storage below it. The controls in the Dodge feel like they're much better quality-wise. Didn't take the 6.0 for a run... didn't even start it... but I couldn't live with the interior of the Ford so any advantage the 6.0 *might* have is lost. The sticker on the Ford was also higher than the Dodge. $43k for an F-250 4x4 with similar equipment to a $38k Ram 2500. Of course, the Ford salesman said he could offer me $3500 for my '91 F-350 and get me out the door for $1000 UNDER invoice.
HAHAHAHAHA. Whatever. This is the same dealership that told me 3% OVER invoice 5 months ago.
Anyway... Just thought I'd report my findings. I've been Ford through and through since I started driving trucks in 1995, but their quality seems to have really gone downhill and the interior ergonomics just aren't there. If new Chevy's are anything like my wife's 2000 Silverado on the inside, then I'd have to say Dodge *really* has a winning combination and is, relative to the Ford, an EXCELLENT value.
Mike
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