Okay, wise-arse, as I've said, I don't care what you drive. I had an F250, put 100k on it, and am not driving it anymore on purpose. But you're welcome to drive what you want. I don't envy you in any capacity, I can assure you.
As for the comparison, I didn't bring it up. I was responding to your inane comments about a clearly biased review group, who uses different criteria for this one truck than they do for all others in their tests, and then complains about this truck while they praise other trucks for the things they complain about with the XD. It's so clearly a bias, it's not even funny how you're too blind to see it.
And I don't particularly care for the XD. I likely won't ever own one. The nose is too big for my taste, and it looks too much like a pregnant whale in my view. So I'm not a fanboy of any type on this truck. But I've owned trucks all my life, from mini-trucks to the biggest of the big, and I've driven every brand out there enough to know something about trucks. I've driven empty, fully loaded, with no towing, towing max weight, and in a few cases, towing overweight (back when I was young and dumb). I've towed vehicles on flatbeds and in enclosed haulers. I've towed boats from 12 to 33 feet, and on single, tandem, and triple axle trailers. I've towed small square bales stacked higher than I should have, and I've towed more big round bales than folks thought we could strap on a loboy. I've even driven trucks for a living, which required me to have additional licensing and DOT physicals and the like, and I've towed a loader on a triple axle loboy behind a double axle dump, too. So I know more than a little about trucks and towing, and I know more than a little about how folks might use a truck and how one might be well suited or poorly suited to the task.
I also make my living now working in a field with a high level of rigor in comparisons and testing methods.
What they guys at tfl are doing is slanting their tests. I don't know why, but here's how they're slanting them:
MPG tests at a higher speed with the XD than any other trucks they tested.
MPG tests in dramatically colder (30-50deg colder) temps than any other truck they tested.
Towing tests at max capacity, where with other trucks they use a flat 9k round figure which is anywhere from several hundred to maybe a thousand pounds below max capacity for the truck(s).
Complaining about 9 braking events with the XD, while praising other trucks with more braking events, and outright stating they're not going to count all the braking events in those tests.
I could list more, but I'm sure you're not really listening at this point.
Now, as a comparison, several other legitimate, well-known, longstanding testing groups have also tested the XD. In several instances, they've tested it far longer than, and more thoroughly, than your beloved tfl guys. And they've used a higher level of rigor in their testing. And those testing groups have universally come up with similar numbers to one another, but different numbers than the non-rigorous testing done by tfl.
I don't want an XD, and I've never wanted one, since first seeing the new style. I'll stick with my 2011 until it starts costing me more than it's worth to fix it. But the fact remains that tfl is an unreliable source in terms of testing results, based on the facts at hand. The things I listed above are facts, not my opinion, in terms of how they slanted their testing to be different for the XD than other trucks. You don't have to like the XD, or the facts above, but there is absolutely no argument that tfl is a joke testing group, and their opinion is worth the same as yours or mine, and isn't backed up by facts, or at least not by equitable, repeatable facts.
