OPINIONTORIAL: Pathetic New Diesel Ford Super Duty Truck Has Less Power, Torque Than Mercedes Family Car
At right, wimpy celebrity Mark Wahlberg puts his small daughter in the back seat of his Mercedes family sedan
Ford is promoting its new F-Series Super Duty pickup truck, with a supposedly impressive 390 horsepower and 735 lb-ft of torque. This is the optional turbodiesel V8 engine with 6.7 liters of displacement.
As a comparison, the lowly Mercedes S65 AMG, just a simple family sedan, has 604 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque. And everyone always says how much torque diesel engines make. Pathetic.
Devotees of the Blue Oval will no doubt whine “But the SAE horsepower rating system is different for vehicles over 8500 lbs in GVWR! The Super Duty uses a chassis dynamometer while the Mercedes can use an engine dyno.”
These people are whiners, getting caught up in meaningless technicalities. You want torque, you buy a Mercedes family car. You want some piddling little gutless engine, you get this Super Duty. Only 1/2 of that name is accurate, though.
In other news, StreetCar magazine will be running a “We’re so offbeat” comparison of these two vehicles in an upcoming issue.