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Originally Posted by vwbobd
My neighbor is a sales manager at a Toyota dealer. He brought me a tundra to drive for a few days. My other neightbor has an F150. The tundra is no match from its weak engine to its cheap interior, not to mention the overated nameplate attached to it. My opinion.
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I respect your opinion, mine's different. We'll just let it go at that.
Except ... a question: was this a new generation tundra you drove (2007 on) or an earlier version? The really early ones were sluggish. The later ones pull. Hard.
BTW, I drove the ford to work today.
I use a freeway on-ramp i call the drag strip. Red light holds you there, green light says go for a very short ramp and you have to get up to 70+ mph to blend in with traffic. It's a zero to 70 test every morning.
I've nailed the toyota hundreds of times on that onramp, full throttle, hold it pinned, let off when you match the speed of traffic.
I did it today in the ford. i have to say the 5.4 liter pulled nicely but didn't rev as high as the toyota and it felt like it didn't pull quite as as hard.
not very scientific but there's real world experience.
One of these days I'll try it in towing mode just for giggles. BTW i believe in breaking them in hard to run them hard. If it can't take a full throttle run up to 4800 rpm when new now and then, it's a POS. IMHO of course. The Toyota never seemed to be bothered by it.
Yesterday the Toyota, today the ford, the Toyota seemed to hit 70 quicker. If it didn't the two were very close. Too close to tell by SOTP.
Maybe there was something wrong with the Toyota you drove, or maybe it was a V6? They made a few of those.
Maybe my ford is still really tight (and slow) but i doubt that.
My tundra hits zero to 60 in 8 seconds according to the magazines. The 5.7 does it in 6 flat.
That is not anemic.
With the traction control turned off, my Toyota can boil both rear tires without power braking. Big smoke cloud. I only did it once.