I drove a '22 F250 XLT with ~32k miles on the clock for 1 week. My original selection was a Jetta or equivalent but this small Enterprise location ran out and this beast was all that was left. Overall, I hated driving this thing. I'm not sure if my poor experience was from the truck being an abused / neglected rental or if it really just sucks.
Pro:
- King of the road feel from sitting up so high.
Cons:
- Weird herky-jerky driving experience. IDK if it was from the engine, transmission or both but even under mild acceleration, the entire truck would noticeably jerk / shudder. Was really annoying and I had to keep a finger or two on my drink in the cupholder to keep it from spilling. The transmission also had rough shifts, especially when cold.
- 6.2L V8 felt underpowered lugging around all this mass.
- Ticking noise from the engine bay; sounded like a possible exhaust manifold leak.
- Column shifter wasn't smooth when changing between gears.
- Size. I've driven trucks before but not one this large. I can understand a contractor owning one for the huge bed space but for the rest of us, it's just excessive and unnecessary. The fact that so many bros schlep these around the suburbs just to get to The Cheescake Factory is laughable.
- Stumbling idle.
- Weird overboosted brakes that still required decent pedal pressure to come to a stop.
- Horrendous fuel economy. I hand-calculated 13 MPG on mainly flat highway driving going 75 mph.
- Rough suspension. When hitting bumps, the front end would squirm and the steering wheel would wander all over the place. Had to keep a firm grip on the wheel to keep things under control. The rear end didn't like bumps but that's kind of to be expected with an empty bed.
- Just couldn't get the mirrors adjusted to my liking.
- Inside glass loved to fog up. I thought it was from a poor windshield replacement job but all the glass appeared to be factory Ford so IDK what was up there.
- Dim halogen headlights, even with the quad lights setup.
