Testing EVERY Ford Truck (F150 - F750)

You've probably heard of the Ford F-150, or even the F-250, or 350, but did you know they make an F-650 and even a 750? Well, today we're gonna drive them all, starting with the most popular one. This is a brand new Ford F-150 STX. It's got a regular bed. It's got a super crew cab, four-wheel drive, and under the hood, a 2.7 liter V6 EcoBoost, and it all costs just under $50,000. This is the most popular truck that Ford makes. These pickups are America's workhorse. People buy these trucks to get a job done. So, besides driving these trucks, telling you what's under the hood inside, we're also gonna be putting these trucks to work. We're almost there! Hold on, Timmy! God, this is a disaster. Oh, jeez. What job are we gonna be doing with our F-150? Well, according to a recent study by Strategic Vision, the most common uses for an F-150 were shopping, commuting, and personal hauling. So, statistically speaking, the most common job you'll see an F-150 doing is moving a couch. Hey, Nolan, can I borrow your truck? Justin, what are friends for? Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. Yeah, of course. Oh, that is heavier than I thought it was gonna be. All right, so this might not be very impressive, but trust me, the jobs and the trucks are gonna get a lot bigger. Uh-oh. That's fine. Nolan, what happened to trucks? I thought they used to fit couches inside the bed. I mean, now it's a family vehicle. You got a big old passenger compartment, and that takes up that room that the bed used to take. Vehicles are so expensive, people can't afford to own multiple vehicles. They have their one vehicle that does it all. You know, you gotta, I don't know, haul your couch or go to the job site or whatever, but also take your family to dinner. So, I understand. Now, catch. All right, Justin, F-150, dude, what do we think? It's very large inside. This is the smallest truck on our list, and it feels enormous. And it's not just, like, leg space. It's head space. Head space, too. It's shoulder space. Yeah. It's all the space. I'm so comfortable, man. I feel like a king in here. The ride is super comfortable, too. This thing doesn't drive like any truck I've ever been in. It's so soft. You don't get that classic truck feeling where you can feel the bed maybe skitter around a little bit. There really is, like, an F-150 for every driver in the U.S. You can really build one of these trucks any way you want to, and that's kind of part of the staying power of the F-150. You can go all the way up to, like, the King Ranch edition, which I think is, I think, I want to say it's like $80,000, $90,000. I think they're higher now. Yeah. Man. I mean, I was actually thinking about getting a regular cab short bed myself, but, actually. Still are. Still thinking about it. I have a whole build sheet for it, so. So, he's got the 2.7 EcoBoost under the hood, turbocharged V6. It's making 325 horsepower and 400 foot-pounds of torque. That's pretty respectable. Wow, yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, there's a lot of stuff you can haul with this thing. A lot more than most people will need. Yeah. This isn't just Ford's best-selling truck. This is the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. Wow. It's the F-150. Like, most people who are going to look and buying a new car are probably looking at one of these. Yeah, because it does everything. Yeah, so. So, why would you need more? That is a great question. All of the trucks today are the types of trucks you might've played with as a little kid on one of those carpets with the roads on them. Pickup trucks, ambulances, fire truck. And in fact, the final truck in today's video is my childhood favorite. But before we get to that, let's try something a little bit bigger than our F-150. Hey, Nolan here. This is a piston. And this is a dirty piston. Covered in engine-killing deposits that rob you of efficiency and performance, meaning less power and worse gas mileage. 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We came here to meet Big D when we were looking for a horse to dino. Today, we're here for a different reason. Yeah, this is Goldmine. Goldmine has a photo shoot. We're gonna trailer him over to the location. Jerry, you tell the people about the F-250 while I help Scarlett put Goldmine in his trailer. Easy work. Nolan, you ever worked with a horse before? Nope. Nope? Well, here's the thing. They got brains about the size of this big and they don't ever like to listen to you. But Goldmine's a true professional. I mean, it sounds like working with you guys, so. And it's true. Straighten it out, straighten it out. Nolan loading up his first horse trailer. Let's go. Okay, so this is a 2019 Ford F-250. It's four-door, it's four-wheel drive. It's got the long bed. Now, a little thing that's different than most typical F-250s you'd see is that this has a gas engine in it. It's a 6.2 liter V8, makes 385 horsepower, 430 foot pounds of torque. You can put 4,000 pounds in the bed of this thing. It can put a lot in the back. It can haul a lot. You need the ketchup? Yeah, sure. So we're gonna grab his halter. Okay. Oh, he's really just making it difficult. You can come under here, you can come under. Okay. You're doing great, Nolan. You're doing great. Just remember, you're the boss. Over, over the top. Piece over the top. Put a little nose in there. All right, buddy. Something interesting about this truck is it holds a 10,000 gross vehicle weight rating. Gross vehicle weight rating is the maximum amount this truck can weigh with the chassis, the engine, the body, and anything else that you put in the bed of this truck. That is at 10,000 pounds. Good boy. All right, we're gonna go over here. You go 10,001 pounds, you need a DOT number. You potentially need to get a new license or have a qualification to drive something that big. So that's why you see a lot of these on the road. They're pretty much the max you can get that you can get with a standard driver's license. Dense animal, you know? When we start getting up into the bigger trucks, that number starts skyrocketing, and you can hold a lot more. So right now we're still in the residential area, but we're working our way up to the commercial properties. Nope. He's walking. He said, I'd rather be over here, sir. All right. They can sense fear, okay? So calm the f**k down. All right, we're going in. I think he's ready to go. All right, let's close up the trailer. No. You hear that nay, Nolan? Saying goodbye to his buddies. I'm going to work, guys. Oh, that's interesting. I can feel the horse kicking. Yeah, you can feel like every movement. It's a thousand pounds. From the driver's seat, this thing feels a lot different than the F-150. And the new F-150 that we drove felt very car-like by comparison. This thing still feels like a truck. The great thing about the F-250 is it covers a broad range of users. You get the people who need it for their hobbies, get the people who need it to make a living. You know, I have an F-250 myself. It's a 2007 three liter diesel. I use it for all of my hobbies, you know, towing motorcycles, towing a race car to the track. Yes. Now, on the like upper end, this is like full-on professional use truck. Now, one thing, Nolan, this is obviously a gas engine. I am a diesel F-250 guy, but there are some advantages, I guess, to having a gas engine. This is kind of a sweet spot of, hey, you get the payload that you want, but you don't need necessarily an engine with a whole bunch of torque. Yeah. And it's averaging, what is that? Eight miles per gallon? 7.7 miles per gallon, Jared. 7.7 MPG. Not bad, Nolan. It's pretty bad. All right, goldmine. There you go. We got goldmine out of his trailer, ready for that photo shoot. Yeah, it's goldmine, it's out of his trailer. So, let's get some pics and check out that Ford F-350. The next vehicle in our lineup is this Ford F-350 Ambulance. It's got lights, it's got medical equipment, and it's got a siren. It was prepared by Medic Specialty Vehicles. What do you say we give it a drive? Let's do it. Feels weird driving an emergency vehicle. It's just you and me in this car, Justin. We cannot help in an emergency. Yeah. I feel a weight on my shoulders behind the wheel. Quite literally. Yeah. So, the F-250 and the F-350 are very similar trucks. In fact, they come with the same exact set of engine options. However, the F-350 does have a stronger rear axle and a more robust suspension to support heavier payloads. While the F-250 has a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds, the F-350 can be rated up to 14,000 pounds. Coming to the red light, this thing's heavy. It doesn't slow down like the F-150 does, or the F-250. It's big. She's a big girl. But it's not struggling. No, no, it's not too bad. F-350, the first truck in the lineup that's available as cab only, meaning you can just buy the truck without anything over the rear of the frame. Oh, a cab chassis. Cab chassis, yeah. So, you know, outfitters like Medic's Specialty Vehicles or, you know, any other sort of specialty equipment can buy those chassis and outfit them for a specific job. This cab is very similar to the F-250, though. Yeah, I think they're probably the same. I don't think there's any crazy differences between the F-350 and F-250 in stock form, at least. Besides this center console with all the controls for all my lights and horns and all that sort of stuff. Thank you, Geek Squad, for letting me by. He thinks we're on a mission. That's what I'm talking about, dude. I feel people getting out of our way. With great power comes great responsibility. I'm trying to not take advantage of that responsibility with this car, you know. Somebody's gonna see us and be like, oh, they're coming for me. After getting to feel pretty cool driving the ambulance around, Sean and Errol, who actually work with these ambulances every day, gave us a quick rundown of the F-350 and how it functions. Very quickly, it was apparent how prepared these guys are for any situation they might encounter. If I'm putting a needle in, like putting an IV in, I'd be like, hey, needle's out. Like yelling it to make sure you hear it. So just acknowledge. So I don't hit the brakes or something. Well, if you're a really good buddy of mine, you'd probably hit a dip too. These guys have a difficult, high-stakes job. So after receiving the bare minimum instruction on how to transport a patient, it was time for me and Justin to give it a shot in a highly accurate simulation. Guys, I was playing with my food. Oh no, Jimmy. It got serious. Jimmy, not again. Lay down, Jimmy. I gotta lay down. Justin, you gotta get in the truck. Jimmy, I'm gonna get the stretcher, dude. You got it? I got it. I'm gonna bring it down. Yep, bring it down. A lot slower than I thought it'd be. Ready? Three, two, one. Be careful of that banana. Jimmy, you're gonna be all right. Leave it alone, Jimmy. Leave it alone. Why am I constrained? God, what are you doing? There you go, there you go. Oh. Okay, there you go. No, push forward. There we go. All right, get in. If we don't get Jimmy to the emergency room in 100 seconds, he won't be able to read or spell ever again. Stop touching the banana. Jimmy, Jimmy, it's okay, buddy. I'm gonna get your shirt open, okay? Not this shirt. I like this shirt. You can get another one at donutmedia.com. You good? You're good. Oh God. I've got scissors. Bump. Get that stabilized. See you later, Nolan. Bump. Jesus Christ. Almost missed the turn. We have to get there in 60 seconds. We're almost there. Hold on, Jimmy. It's a tank. Take it off. We're a little bit of a delay going to another hospital. What? No. Jimmy, hold on. I'll never play with play food again. All right, time. We made it. But unfortunately, the patient succumbed to his injury. I didn't get there fast enough. Well, I didn't really do a very good job either. It was a team effort. Why don't we high five for that? After going through that and killing Jimmy, I have a whole new appreciation for this job and other kind of first responders. It's like those people actually have to have the skills to do it under pressure, you know? Driving through the streets while you're getting worked on, that's insane to me. On that note, I want to thank Sean and Errol for letting us drive this truck, but also for all the work they do and every other EMT and paramedic ambulance driver out there for helping all of us when we need it the most. It's a tough job that I think we take for granted sometimes. Thank you. A lot of trucks in this video do meaningful work for the benefit of society. This next truck is no different. It's a party bus. It's a bus made to party. Built on a 450 chassis. Well, this one's an E450. We specifically asked for an F450. They said they could provide one. They sent us an E450. I guess that's what happens when you're a party bus company. You're down for anything. You just say yes. So we'll actually get into the differences between the Econoline and the F-Series trucks in a little bit. But for now, it is our buddy Zach Jobe's birthday and we got to prepare. So we're going to have our driver, Michael, give us a tour of this party bus and show us where we're about to get down. Rule number one, what happens on the bus? Stays on the bus. That'll hold up in court. It's in the constitution. Now everybody watch your step, watch your step. All right. This is big. How many people can you safely seat in a party bus? Typically anywhere from 12 to 16 people, no problem. Quick rundown on the bus, super, super simple. On the bus, drink what you want. Off the bus, no go. We want lasers. We want to get into it. Always want lasers. Remember, we want more volume. Volume makes the party happen. We have a very special birthday boy that has no idea what is on the, that is coming. I'm going to keep this a secret from him, which is really hard to do. Let's get these decorations up. This looks OEM. This looks like it was made for the bus. I mean, it's super sick. Hey, Michael. Yeah. You don't get to be the driver of a party bus by not knowing how to blow up balloons. Got the custom mural in the back. We've got the banners. We've got the balloons. The lights are ready to go. Job is back in the office. I honestly cannot wait to do this. Let's go get him. Hey, Zach. Come look at this car on camera. So we got this car especially for you. No way. Yeah. Is it the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile? Oh man, if only. Happy birthday, buddy. Happy birthday to you. What do we got? Oh, Stretch Armstrong. No way. Dude, I feel like a kid again. Hey. No one's driving? Yeah, no one's driving. All right, everybody. Hang on. Here we go. Impressions of the E450. Already surprisingly easy to drive. Very smooth acceleration. Smooth ride, too, over this pretty bumpy surface street. I'm immediately aware of how long and wide this thing is. Luckily, these have very good wide angle mirrors on there. I can keep track of my rear tire, make sure I'm not hitting any curbs. Keep track of this long, long vehicle. This might be the longest vehicle I've ever driven, actually. How long can you go, Stretchy? He's almost human size. Oh, man. Sounds so much fun back there. That's the best part. The E450 comes with the exact same 7.3 liter gas engine that can be found in an F450. These vans are surprisingly capable and much more affordable than the F-Series trucks, with the base E450 costing $15,000 less than the base F450 chassis cab with the same exact engine. But despite all their similarities, their hauling capabilities aren't even close. While the F450's gross vehicle weight rating is greater than the E450 by about 2,000 pounds, the towing capacity is 16,000 pounds more with the truck. But if you aren't planning on towing, and instead just trying to carry a big party of your co-workers around, the E450 is the affordable choice. Yeah, this is the best birthday party of my life! Oh, my God! It's so creepy! Give me the profile, man. You remind me of, like, the Zodiac killed. All right, that's it for the party truck. Let's check in with our next truck, the F550. Hey! Can I have your water? Back to work! Yeah. As the trucks get bigger and bigger, payload becomes more important. We've hauled a couch, a horse, a dying Jimmy, and a party, but this next load right now is the one that everyone in Donut is most excited for. That right there is a Ford F550 with a freaking crane on the back. Can load and unload heavy cargo like a King Kong without using a forklift or a liftgate. Very convenient. Under the hood, this F550 has a 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine, 475 horsepower, 1,050 foot pounds of torque. So on the flatbed is something that we've all been waiting for here at Donut for a very long time. But before we get to that, let's take the F550 for a little spin, Jim. Very long truck, so I'm keeping my eyes glued to my mirrors there, making sure I'm not running into anything. I'm just gonna stay still. Yeah, you're good. This F550 is the first truck that we've driven that you cannot get from Ford with a pickup bed. That makes sense. Strictly commercial stuff. I'd like to see a bed that can fit on that huge- I'm sure there's some out there. There's probably one, yeah. If you're buying a truck like this, you're buying that chassis and maybe going to another company that builds the specified bed for your industry. A crane company, a flatbed company. I don't know if it was necessarily made for cruising the streets of Englewood like this. Well, it was made to go anywhere normally. You think so? I mean, you gotta get it to load places. You too. I'm always saying that. Yeah, you gotta get it to load places. Like my grandfather always said. Yeah. Okay? If you've been watching our channel for a while, you've seen us go from talking about cars in a hallway in front of a green screen to working on cars on jack stands, finally working on cars under a portable hydraulic lift. Well, guys, we finally made it. We got ourselves some big boy permanent hydraulic lifts. Fetty here from BendPak is going to show us how to unload the lift from the truck, finally get it installed in our shop here. The Ranger is getting a brand new engine and transmission tomorrow, and that's going to be a huge help to have a real full-size lift. So let's get it done. That's it. Right there. A little bit more. More. There's a remote control for that. Whoa. For this crane. Just go up? Sick. This is awesome. Can you move to the left side? Right there. Crane boy now. Big crane boy. Yeah, dude. I've always been a big crane guy, you know? This life isn't for everybody, James. Takes a special kind of guy. It does. And you know, I feel like I'm that guy. All right. Good job, James. Thanks. We did it. We definitely helped. Yeah. Couldn't have done it without us, really. Teddy, how helpful were James and I with this job today? Okay. Okay? It's okay. Hey, and that's all we can hope for. That'd be good. No, that's pretty good. Up next might be the wildest truck in this video. And while the final truck is my favorite as a kid, this one might be my favorite as an adult. This is a Type 3 Wildland Pumper at Grayton Fire Department. It's a purpose-built off-road fire engine built on top of the chassis of Ford F-650. 23,440 pounds of sweet pumping action, Nolan. Right here is Kyle. He's the engineer for the station. He drives all the trucks here. Can you walk us through the engine here? All right. It was built to kind of be an all-risk fire engine with an emphasis on wildfire fighting. On the engine itself, we have all the tools we need for fighting wildfires as well as house fires, medical calls, vehicle extrication, anything you can really think of. We can cut a tree out of the road. Yeah. Very utilitarian. Absolutely. Like all jobs. To move all 23,000 pounds of this thing, you might expect this truck to have a huge engine under the hood, but it's actually the 6.7 liter power stroke. You know, it's making 330 horsepower, 750 pounds of torque, but the transmission and the final gearing of this thing is super low to help move all that weight. And I've been told it actually drives pretty well. What's the top speed of this thing? 100 miles, 150 on there? It's got a governor putting it at 67 miles per hour. Yeah. This thing can pump 500 gallons per minute. It carries 500 in a poly tank in the center, carries 20 gallons of foam concentrate. How many hoses are on this truck? I see them all over. Great question. A lot of hoses. Yeah, a lot of hoses. So total hose compliment, we're looking at about 24 to 2,600 feet. 2,400 feet, so almost half a mile of hose. That's insane. That's a lot of hose. This engine was delivered to Grayton in 2020 and its second service call ever was to the LNU Lightning Fires. That fire encompassed over 350,000 acres. That's insane. The crew spent 22 days out in the field with this engine putting those fires out, man. Good way to break her in. Yeah, I'd say. Kyle was kind enough to show us around this truck, show us all the features, but it's time to take this thing out of the station. Give it a little drive. Wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo. Looky here. Jerry, we get some really cool days at work and this is one of them. Yeah, it's pretty neat. It's very F-250, 350-esque in here. This whole instrument panel wall, the business is going on, is obviously very different. Yes. You got lots of sirens and air horns. Like that. Scared the s**t out of me. Other than that. Yeah. That's hilarious. That's what he gets. This is definitely the heaviest vehicle I've ever driven. And you know what? It's got some pick up and go. Yeah. It's not bad. It's nimble, dude, for how big it is. They built a good rig. We've driven some other super heavy vehicles like that RV a couple months ago. Oh, that's right. Remember, yeah, the Ascender. Yeah, the Ascender. That thing weighed 17,000 pounds, but the management of the chassis was not, the due diligence wasn't done for the weight management. That thing drove like s**t compared to this thing. This thing's awesome. It doesn't feel as big as it looks on the outside. No, we're just higher up. Yeah, we're just higher up. You can see over the hood really well. Oh, look at this waterfall. Dude, what? Are you kidding me? This is so nice. Dude, is ET around here? Getting to drive the fire engine, that was a dream come true. But Graton FD has arranged a little training exercise for us, Jerry. We're all geared up. We got about 10 minutes worth of training back at the firehouse. I honestly retained zero of that. I've got a hose pack on my back. This thing weighs about 45 pounds here. We've got a cone down there. It might look like a cone to you, but chance, can we get a child on fire? I'm going to be running with the nozzle. You're going to be undoing the hose. You're going to get the hose out of my backpack. The standard is 100 feet of hose per one minute. Our child is about 200 feet away. So it gives us two minutes to save this poor, poor citizen from the fire. In the middle of a downpour. Let's go. Whatever time this goes, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh no, give me the nozzle. Grab the center, grab the center and run. Go. Grab that, grab that coupling right there. Oh my God. Bring it back to the engine. There you go. What is, Jerry, Jerry, there's a knot in the hose. This is the master. Great start guys, great start. Hold on, no, don't go too far. Okay, all right, lock in. Open it. Open this one. Jerry's opening the nozzle as far as I can go. Here comes the water. That's sick. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. All right, grab the clamp, clamp it. Okay, clamping. There you go. Grab that other stick of hose. Roll it out just like the first one. Oh God. Disconnect this one. Okay. This way, this way? Yeah. You take that one. Go to the nozzle. Go. Give me the water. All right, water coming. Okay. We got it. We saved her. I'm so out of breath, Jerry. Yeah, that was only two minutes, dude. Was it? I don't know. It's time that Ford F750, the largest truck on our list today in the form of my favorite childhood toy, the garbage truck. Let's huck some trash, Nolan. Yes. This F750 belongs to the Urban Corps of San Diego, who run a comprehensive program that blends high school education, paid job training, and community service to promote civic engagement. One arm of their nonprofit includes a recycling program. Jorge showed us around the truck. And then it just keeps compacting everything into the, I guess, it's called a tank, or what would you call that? Yeah, it's actually the stomach of the beast. The stomach of the beast, hell yeah. I've never actually seen one of these open like this before. Is this incredible? That kind of machinery and the technology and all the engineering that's gone into something that helps keep society moving, you know? Thousands of pounds of trash, the waste of a society in motion, getting compacted in there and then transported to another location, man. I don't know, it's crazy that this is just like on the streets with you every day. So we've got a bunch of cans here. Gonna throw these into the compactor. Okay, so it's scooping it into the receptacle back there. I don't know if that worked, Justin. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm more worried about which direction the controls go. Let me help you, Nolan. Thank you, Justin. Whoa, look at this guy. All right, Justin. Yes, crush them. All right, I got both of them that time. It's like a giant game of Hungry Hungry Hippos, Justin. Yes, quite literally. Justin, that was really fun. Love playing with hydraulics, but we're not here to trash compact all day. We're here to drive this thing. So let's get behind the wheel and see what this Ford F750 garbage truck is all about. Got our boy, Jorge, here. He's gonna drive us around in the truck and we'll tell you our impressions the best we can from the passenger seats. Oh yeah, it's time. Big truck, big dudes. So Jorge, how do you like driving such a big truck around San Diego? You get used to it, but it is a big responsibility. I'm not gonna shy from it, it's a big responsibility. A big truck like this demands respect, so people are cautious, you know. Do you drive a pickup truck in your day to day? No. No? I drive this whole Nissan Cube with, oh, nice. Dude, this thing is so big, it makes a Range Rover look tiny. But it's so smooth in handling. Yeah. If you were to drive it, it's so smooth. Power steering. Yeah, this cabin feels very similar to just a F-350 or even F-250. Oh, it's very comfortable. Yeah, very comfortable. Still a Ford and just a lot bigger. Yep. 6.7 liter power stroke under the hood. It's pushing out 350 horsepower, 750 foot pounds of torque. But Justin, I mean, in applications like this, we don't need a lot of horsepower. No, you just need to be able to move it. And that's exactly what torque does. Yeah. And that's the beauty of diesel. You get all that torque, all that wheel movement, pull all that weight. 37,000 pound gross vehicle weight rating. I mean, that's almost as much as a tank. Yeah. I mean, this has been a dream come true right here. Yeah, Nolan, how's it feel? Getting to ride in my childhood favorite toy, the garbage truck. Love it. We're the king of the streets out here. Right? That feels good. Yeah. So thank you, Jorge. But there's one more thing though, to be a real garbage man that you need to do. Let's go. Dude, this is sick. Oh, making a turn, here we go. Oh my God. Oh, oh my God. I love my job, baby. When we set out to make this video, we wanted to show how the Ford F-Series truck is the backbone of America. Show off these trucks that get the jobs done. But as I talked to all the different people who work with these trucks, became really apparent that they're the ones we should be celebrating. The workers who drive the trucks, who put out the fires, who keep our streets clean and respond to our calls for help every single day. They're the true backbone. So to those of you out there, you know who you are. Thank you very much. All right, so that's every F-Series driven. What a great day. You want to see more? Hit that subscribe button. Leave us a comment down below. Tell us what insanely hard video to make next and we might do it. This took months to make. All right. See you later.