Ill have to agree with statukuz and fatherford.
We buy our trucks based on personal taste and budget. Most biased claims are passed down to us in any number of ways. People we look up to is usually the case. Your dad drove fords/chevy/dodge. Your favorite actor/rapper/whoever-the-hell just bought a badass chevy/dodge ford truck and put (enter tire or rim size here). Its a status and society symbol mostly.

The truth is we buy what we want based on what we think we want...
no one who takes the term "work truck" seriously now-a-days drives a "half ton" anyway.
I as well as many others here bought our F150s because its what we wanted.
I love my screw... i wish i would have gotten the 5.4 and there are a ton of flaws i see in it but i love it either way. I will drive it till the wheels fall off and the ford logo fades away from age. Just like the kid down the street with his chevy will do the same.
For towing i love our work (using the term lightly, it hauls maybe 200 lbs and a dog usually, with an occasional 1200 lb load in a well balanced 12ft trailer) OBS dodge ram.
Its got gobs of torque and can really just do what you want it to.
It wouldnt compare to our F350 but that is why there are different trim classes, weight classes and overall general vehicle classes as well as price segments.

We can all manipulate numbers and stats to benefit us and our choices but in the end who are we fooling but ourselves? Tricking our minds into reasoning that the choice we made was the "Better" choice over something that was done more so to please ourselves than anything else.


Post Script
I did enjoy seeing those vids though. The body roll on some trucks is crazy and the towing vid with the silverado getting damn near out of control was almost scary.

 

Power Kid, I agree with you. You are being reasonable and giving your own reasons for what you want, not just insulting the truck and say it was "owned", whatever that means.

What I have a problem with is people who say all of the trucks are the same in one post and then go on and say it got "owned" in another without knowing what they are talking about.

People: criticize either truck if you wish, for reasons of your own, but people are not going to think you know what you're talking about if you are just going to say all trucks are the same, then turn around in the next post and say one truck was destroyed because it is a couple second slower in a ¼ mile test, or people buy on biases and not on factual information, or "nobody buys a half ton for real work". I totally reject the notion that people don’t buy half tons for real work. If I had the choice right now between a 2011 F-150 and a 2011 Super Duty, I would take the F-150 all the way and I use mine mainly for real work and as a daily driver. I prefer the F-150 over the Super Duty for reasons I will not go into here. Let's just stop pretending that the different makes of trucks are all the same when they are not the same because you want to stay above the fray and support something when you do not even know what that is.

 

Excellent.

 

If i may, for the sake of debate, ill take this as a direct jab to what i posted.

Work isnt strictly defined,its more of a perception,much like what has been posted of our opinions and one-upmanship of a particular truck/situation.
The reason i quoted the half ton part was that most half tons can now safely haul a bit more than that. but its still less than a ton so if your doing any heavy moving you wouldnt look at a half ton for obvious reasons.
My definition of work would be to carry 4 or more people safely and comfortably from A to B and haul say 600 pounds on a random weekend in the summer, or more precisely, haul between 7 and 1000 Lbs in the bed with four people and luggage for over 2000 miles in a 12 hour span. Thats what i do once a year, bought a truck to do just that and my truck does it decently, yet for some unknown reason, when i think of work i have a vision of a large truck pulling an overly large trailer full of heavy oil pipeline stacked full.
Neither scenerio is wrong and once again it is more of a personal choice as to why we buy what we do.
My truck works real hard every day as im sure yours does its job. It may not haul as much like say a full ton truck or 3/4 ton truck might but rest assured it does its job as well as any other brand truck would do it in the hands of its driver.

So who are we to say what real work is? Real work is what gets thrown in the bed/interior and pulled then and there, and no one can describe what exactly is hard work to a particular situation.
Perhaps my last post was worded poorly.

 

so what if someone buys a trucks and doesn't abuse it, so what if someone does




it's called American freedom and ya'll better enjoy what you have...