A lively discussion unfolds as the hosts share their experiences with seven different trucks purchased over the past year. They dive into the pros and cons of various models, comparing features like horsepower, towing capabilities, and interior aesthetics. Notably, the bright orange color of one truck sparks a debate on style versus performance. The hosts also reveal their favorites, weighing practicality against personal preference, ultimately highlighting the importance of how a truck makes them feel when driving.
Topics:truck comparisonsperformance vs aestheticstowing capabilitiesinterior featurespersonal favorites
( https://www.alltfl.com/ ) Check out our new spot to find ALL our content, from news to videos and our podcasts! On this episode of TFL Talkin’ Trucks, Andre is joined by Roman, who’s stepping in for Kase while he’s out on a program. Together, they reflect on a busy year packed with truck buying, testing, and trail-conquering adventures—and after picking up seven different rigs, they’ve got plenty of stories to share.
From heavy-duty haulers to off-road beasts and everything in between, the guys break down the highlights, lowlights, and surprises from their growing fleet. Which truck delivered beyond expectations? Which one didn't quite live up to the hype? And which one would they happily buy again? Tune in for the behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to live with all these trucks—and find out which one earns the title of favorite!
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"...PEAKER_00]: And I would pick Pumpkin just because Maverick doesn't go off road. [SPEAKER_00]: And as much as..."
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have the AV.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have the AV, but the AV gives you thirty-five and gives you like a seventy-five thousand dollar price tag.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like twenty-five thousand dollars more than this.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one was like fifty-five, I think, or fifty-six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually it was identical to the Ranger actor almost.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you compare it directly to the Ranger actor, you're getting a lot less.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're getting two less cylinders.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're getting a less horsepower.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're getting less horsepower, but you are getting dual lockers.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're getting a nice interior.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're getting, I think a nicer interior.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for me, and I know this is very superficial, Andre, but I love the colors called, I think desert sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's bright orange.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a brightest orange I've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am a sucker for color and I love this color.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the white interior.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the red sea bell.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so outlandish and [SPEAKER_00]: It's like the eighties all over again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it makes me happy every time I get in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have the same amount of power that the Ranger Raptor had.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it does have like real buttons as opposed to like all digital.
[SPEAKER_00]: All digital.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the locking differentials are actually switches.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Physical switches that you pull in push.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still in the fence on the collar.
[SPEAKER_01]: I usually am a collar guy, love collar.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, there it's stuck right there because it's on thirty-three's.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're showing you the threat cone, which is one of the more difficult trails.
[SPEAKER_01]: It needs a slightly bigger tire, but the guys still got it over the obstacle gatekeeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you had the Colorado and you had kind of the base version.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you much more, much more affordable in the trail boss.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I played about forty-one thousand for my truck.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was two and a half years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what fifty-five fifty-six.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so compared to this truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this has, when you get the X, you also get the heads up display.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you get all the bells always.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you have cruise control.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and he's in cool seats.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love looking at those rock rails.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're functional because Tommy used them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And nothing happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't bend.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did those small scratch happened, but they didn't bend.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really functional.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love these tires, by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, these three three.
[SPEAKER_01]: So compared to my truck, same power plant.
[SPEAKER_01]: So still three hundred and ten horsepower, which is a little bit buzzing in the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: The end is a little bit buzzing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not very satisfying sound.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's slow, but it's not slow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So everything, I love everything about this truck, except it didn't do so well on the eye gauntlet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we do this towing test in the mountains.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this truck was, obviously, stable and confident, but it didn't perform well on there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's six thousand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Six thousand with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we did over, I think, eleven brake applications on the way down, which is on the high side.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it doesn't have a lot of back pressure, but the engine is only two point seven liters.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the engine doesn't have a lot of displacement.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the way up, it was almost out of power.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're still moving at sixty miles an hour on the way up, but you were right on the cusp.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we were on the cusp almost a hundred percent throttle.
[SPEAKER_01]: on this little guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he came with a bedliner.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: GMC.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, TSC.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at those seat belts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look how good those look with your shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're looking at a picture of Andre and his cowboy hat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Backwards on my dad, Andre.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a comment you got, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: That you're wearing a backwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, no, no, I'm not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think you're going to go backwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the white part should be the narrow parts forward.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they're both wide.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got it a wide wide double wide.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a way, say, forget.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I went to this custom hat place for, um, for my cowboy hat and they had so many choices.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's like, fifteen different styles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just get a, that's a, that's the same the West.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, so, look, it's a performing truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I'm super official.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't do the best towing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not really meant for towing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just so freaking good looking.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really good looking truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love those little marker lights, the orange marker lights on the side of the wheel wells.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a sexy as truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's also got the sunroof which I'm not a big fan of, but in this truck I love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that, you know, sometimes the looks turn heads and make you overlook a lot of things that I probably normally wouldn't overlook.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure people are looking at this truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see the marker lights, the orange [SPEAKER_00]: the color of the truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want white interior, probably not, in a truck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it going to get dirty?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's what makes it cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the more high maintenance somebody or something is, the more kind of you fall in love with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a weird thing that happens in human nature, but I'm kind of there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think they're just a smart thing where the white parts are kind of a little bit higher on the truck.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not like a seed bottom is white, you know, where your butt is always moving across.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like where your knee touches on the side of the toy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so so I think that is a good job of the interior Everything else is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting nineteen and a half MPJ in this truck which is supposed to be seventeen Yeah, so it's doing better than the EPA suggesting so it's actually relatively efficient considering everything about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got good backseat room.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not horrible [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you would think that maybe it would be tight because there's some some tracks or tight and I could say if I compare it to the Ford, you get a lot more with the Ford.
[SPEAKER_01]: We get better downhill, throwing performance in the Ford, you have better acceleration in the Ford.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say more acceleration equals more fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would pick a ranger after all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Plus we tuned it, which gives even more power.
[SPEAKER_00]: So factory tuned it, not after market tuned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Ford does a smart thing where you can factory tuned it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, if power is what you want, then definitely get the ranger after.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I just think this is a really nice truck, and it makes me happy every time I get behind the wheel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes that's more important than how much your toes are how quickly they accelerate.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now we have to pick our favorite unfortunately.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because we have a lot of good trucks here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So go for it on this list.
[SPEAKER_01]: For me, it's between the F and F and F and F and F and F and F and so we're out of heavy duty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for me, I keep bouncing between them because once again, I care about, you know, heavier towing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can only have one truck, which one is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't have both.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can only have one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, I think I would go F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F [SPEAKER_00]: And I would pick Pumpkin just because Maverick doesn't go off road.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as much as I would rather live with the Maverick as an everyday truck at some point, I'm going to want to go off road.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the GMC does have auto four wheel drive, which is nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the absolute trimmer does not.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a bummer.
[SPEAKER_01]: But once again, you said, you know, we could only have one truck.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, I have a six thousand pound boat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I load up a lot of camping gear in my truck in the summer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want a full-size truck.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's why that's what I need.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for the times you need it, you need it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really need it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there you have it, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining us for this episode of TFL talking trucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Andre, thank you for having me on the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so we'll return the normal scheduled program next time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Next week, where should they go if they want to see some of these videos?
[SPEAKER_00]: Only in one place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oldtfl.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We shall see you next time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ciao.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Dominic, stop using Chow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been using that for fifteen years.
[SPEAKER_00]: He started stealing my Chow.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chow?
[SPEAKER_00]: Out of spec.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I use batteries included.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a podcast, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Batteries included.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Dom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also, you know, I've been doing Chow since I started this in two thousand nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's doing Chow.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a European thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, yeah, it's a check thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's Canadian.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see Chao?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, uh, hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: Andre, you got a Mazda.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're has this backwards, eh?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chao.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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