New Truck

[TrikeKid]

We just picked up a brand new 04 F150! its an extended cab XL in oxford white. Dad says he got tired of working on the old truck all the time and since Ford has a 0% finance thing going on he decided to get one. Its a basic work truck rubber mats instead of carpet plain steel wheels no slider rear window. It does have the 5.4 in it though. He says he has no plans other than a spray in bed liner but hes already talked about how easily he could drop the back end down to make it look better. :rolleyes: i see at least an intake in its future.

[atcmatt]

Not trying to start any BS here, but what is the obsession with you Americans and big "trucks". It seems like you all drive big chev's and F-series fords. Down here in Aus we drive "utes", ranging from earlier holden v8's 2x4's to the newer 100 series Toyota Landcruisers and Hilux 4x4's.

:confused:

Matt

[TrikerR]

yea matt, but they can afford to run the "Big Trucks" becaus they dont have to pay over $1 a litre for fuel.

[atcmatt]

I hear ya Ned. Them old V8 1 tonners sure suck alot of fuel also. Gas conversions are the only way to go. The old 253 engines are guzzlers, can image what a 308 or 350 Chev would be like! What are fuel prices in America like anyway???

Matt

[twgranger]

Price of gas were i live is $2.02 a gallon. Last week was an $1.80!

[rob0781]

we pay by the liter in canada and right now it's at 92.9 for reg which i run in the car and 99.9 for supreme which the trike gets..

[atcmatt]

1 GALLON is close to 4 LITRES. So you guys are getting it about 50% cheaper than us. We pay about $1.00 a litre give or take a few cents from varying petrol stations. Sounds like Canada is uses the same metric system as us. I was jus ttalkign to Renotrikeguy, Chris, about house prices also. You guys have it all figured out ill tell ya what. :D Everything is so much cheaper up there, trikes included!!!

Matt

[Mobular]

Fuel prices fluctuate between 80 cents and 93 cents a liter here in B.C.
I cross into the states quite often and get it for 70 cents a liter.
I recently stepped up to a 95 F-250 4x4, 351 auto. from a well used 350 powered 62 Impala. Reason being is that I need the vehicle for the box space and towing capacity for when we head to our cabin and that I simply need a larger vehicle. I don't squeeze into todays "big" cars, so it's a real truck for me!


Oh, and I aint no 'mahr-kun! :)

[threewheelin-feelin]

gas is 1.75 to 1.90 here and i just got a v8 haha. by the way is it 4wd?

[reload]

today, in Grand Island, Nebraska, gas was $1.899. $55 to fill my truck! oh ya, Chevy 350, and yes it is a gas guzzeler, that its only down side.

[TrikeKid]

our truck is by no means big and acctually is pretty good on fuel supposed to get 15 city and 19MPG highway. thanks to the wonder of fuel injection. you can get about the same with any of the new big diesels even modified ones.

[honda200boyatc]

my dad just bot a 2004 ford f-150 lariete with the 5.4 it so nice in side the new ford get better gas mil. then the new rangers and the dicels get the best of all the truck


i lov it i do i do i dooo

[MTS]

hmm from what i hear the "new" for 5.4's arent all that great..but i dunno..im a chevy guy personally and wouldent drive a ford if i won it..lol

[TrikeKid]

typical chebby guy coment too :p .i think 300 horsepower with decent milage is pretty great.