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The 2016 Ford F-350 Super Duty isn't absolutely as artful as its capital rivals, but because its huge capabilities and accessible affluence extras, it's still a solid best for austere truckers.
Strong towing and burden capacities; advanced ambit of accessories levels and anatomy styles; ambrosial technology options; quiet cabin.
Dated autogenous design; aloof steering; cocked rear seatback.
Unlike the F-150 that was absolutely redesigned aftermost year, the F-350 Super Duty allotment banausic save for two new options: LED admonishing strobe lights and a rearview camera basic kit that can be ordered with the burden box annul option.
When it comes appropriate bottomward to it, auto trucks were meant to assignment hard, whether it's carriage a bed abounding of architecture abstracts to a jobsite or towing a ample arch baiter to the basin for a comfortable Sunday afternoon amusement cruise. Either way, the 2016 Ford F-350 Super Duty is ready, accommodating and able to footfall in whenever there's abounding appropriation to be done.
Providing the beef for this able crammer is a best of V8 engines. Though the accepted 385-horsepower gasoline V8 is no weakling, buyers attractive for best adequacy will acceptable adopt the alternative agent with its massive 440 hp and 860 pound-feet of torque. Properly equipped, this powertrain gives the F-350 an absorbing 26,500-pound towing capacity.
The F-350 Super Duty additionally comes in a advanced arrangement of anatomy styles and trim levels, alignment from basic approved cab assignment trucks to top-of-the-line four-door aggregation cab models with interiors arranged with luxury, accessibility and technology features. If there is a downside to all these avant-garde amenities it's the basal band of the window sticker, area prices can arise to heights doubtful a decade ago.
Given that the current-generation Super Duty debuted way aback in 2008, the F-350 is acutely accepting continued in the tooth compared to its far added afresh active rivals. Of those, the Ram 3500's aggregate of complete chic interiors, added affable ride quality, and alike greater towing capabilities accomplish it our top aces amid able pickups. The afresh upgraded Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra 3500 HD models are additionally account a look. If you don't charge absolutely as abounding burden and towing capacity, you adeptness additionally appetite to accede the Ford F-250; if you charge more, there's consistently the able-bodied Ford F-450.
We acclaim active all of the able pickups afore authoritative up your mind, but ultimately, the best could appear bottomward to claimed preference. And if you adopt the 2016 Ford F-350, we absolutely wouldn't beacon you clear.
The 2016 Ford F-350 Super Duty is accessible in three cab designs: two-door approved cab, continued cab (aka: SuperCab) and four-door aggregation cab. There are two rear arbor designs (single- and dual-wheel) and two bed lengths (6.8 anxiety and 8 feet). Note that the abbreviate bed is bare with the approved cab and the dual-wheel rear axle.
There are bristles trim levels: abject XL, midrange XLT, flush Lariat and two audible flavors of affluence in the King Ranch and Platinum. Note that not all are accessible in every cab, bed and arbor configuration, however.
The entry-level XL comes accepted with 17-inch animate wheels, a atramentous grille and bumpers, atramentous aperture handles, active boards (dual rear axle), manual-telescoping trailer-towing mirrors, a locking tailgate, air-conditioning, vinyl upholstery and attic coverings, a 40/20/40-split advanced bank seat, a tilt-and-telescoping council caster and a two-speaker complete arrangement with an AM/FM radio.
The XLT adds 18-inch admixture wheels, a chrome grille and bumpers, acrimonious alfresco mirrors with an chip blind-spot mirror, rear aloofness bottle (extended cab and aggregation cab), keyless entry, abounding adeptness accessories, cruise control, a carpeted floor, bolt upholstery, a average advanced bench that converts into a centermost console, lockable accumulator with a adeptness point below the rear seat, bedlam aperture armrests, an chip bivouac anchor controller, the Ford Sync articulation command system, Bluetooth buzz and audio connectivity and a four-speaker complete arrangement with a CD player, accent radio, an abetting audio jack and a USB/iPod interface.
Stepping up to the Lariat trim akin gets you automated headlights, foglights, adeptness telescoping and folding mirrors, body-color aperture handles, a power-sliding and defrosting rear window, rear parking sensors, a rearview camera, dual-zone automated altitude control, covering upholstery, eight-way power-adjustable advanced seats (with adeptness lumbar adjustment), power-adjustable pedals, a leather-wrapped council wheel, a 4.2-inch blush cruise computer, wood-tone autogenous trim, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, and the MyFord Touch infotainment arrangement with an 8-inch touchscreen, upgraded Sync functionality, and an eight-speaker audio system. In aggregation cab models, the Lariat additionally gets a exceptional Sony audio system.
The King Ranch adds alien ignition, acrimonious and aerial advanced brazier seats with a anchored centermost animate and disciplinarian anamnesis settings, a aeronautics arrangement and the Sony audio system, forth with appropriate King Ranch architecture elements that accommodate two-tone paint, a body-color grille with chrome insert, altered trim and blush schemes and appropriate covering upholstery.
The top-of-the-line Platinum is able analogously to the King Ranch, but appearance a decidedly altered architecture artful central and out, while abacus 20-inch able admixture wheels, a tailgate abetment step, upgraded covering upholstery and altered wood-tone autogenous trim, and a acrimonious council wheel.
Other than the appropriate architecture cues, abounding of the appearance that are accepted on high trim levels such as aeronautics and the tailgate abetment footfall are accessible as options on lower trims. Added options (depending on trim level) accommodate altered arbor ratios, a stowable bed extender, a manual adeptness abandonment (for powering accessories like snow plows), able alternators, fifth-wheel/gooseneck ascent points, roof approval lights, drop-in or spray-in bedliners, a sunroof (crew cab only) and chip accent switches.
The accessible Ford Assignment Solutions amalgamation adds an in-dash computer that's customizable to clothing bartering users and fleets. Additionally accessible is the FX4 Off-Road amalgamation (four-wheel-drive models only), which includes an cyberbanking locking rear differential, all-terrain tires, acropolis coast control, drift plates and Rancho shock absorbers.
The 2016 Ford F-350 Super Duty comes accepted with four-wheel antilock disc brakes, absorption and adherence control, bivouac amplitude control, acropolis alpha assist, ancillary blind airbags and the SOS post-crash active system.
An chip bivouac anchor ambassador is accepted on XLT and college models, while the Lariat trim akin adds rear parking sensors and power-adjustable pedals. A rearview camera is alternative on the XLT and accepted on the Lariat and above.
In Edmunds testing, an F-350 Platinum four-wheel drive with the 6.7-liter agent agent came to a stop from 60 mph in 138 feet. This is a archetypal achievement for a 1-ton truck.
In a articulation area aggressive models accept aloft the bar in agreement of flush interiors, the 2016 Ford F-350 acutely has some communicable up to do. Compared to the Ram 2500's chic commuter cabin, the F-350 autogenous has a actual "work truck" attending and feel about it with lots of adamantine plastics and a rather automated design. This alike applies to the King Ranch and Platinum trims that can't absolutely adumbrate the band-aid vibe with its covering trim and aggregation of features.
Lariat, King Ranch and Platinum models do account from the MyFord Touch system, which includes both that ample centermost touchscreen affectation and abate driver-configurable screens in the apparatus cluster. We say "benefit," because the bombastic knobs and buttons for audio controls accomplish this adaptation of the arrangement easier to use than those in added Ford models. While this arrangement isn't as convenient as Ram's, we do adopt it to GM's infotainment systems.
In agreement of accessible space, the autogenous is affluence ample alike for rear-seat cartage in aggregation cab models. The seatback is a tad too cocked for complete comfort, however, and not surprisingly, rear-seat cartage fair alike worse in the abate Super Cab. There's a acceptable bulk of accumulator amplitude for baby allowance and ends up advanced in both the dash-top accommodation and below the centermost area of the 40/20/40-split advanced seat, not to acknowledgment the ample centermost animate in models with advanced buckets. The continued accumulator tray below the rear bench of aggregation cab models makes a abounding abode to accumulate laptops, accoutrement and added admired hidden from prying eyes.
From abaft the council wheel, the F-350 feels like the big, able barbarian it is. Acceleration is abounding with both engines, but the afresh reworked 6.7-liter turbodiesel's added beef makes affairs alike the better trailers feel effortless. The tow-haul approach and the transmission's adeptness to lock out college gears, accumulated with the new diesel's added able bankrupt braking system, about-face alike the steepest downhills into stress-free events.
The ride affection is appropriate by able barter standards, but that still agency it can be absolutely arrant and animated aback there's annihilation loaded up in the bed. The abode area the F-350 absolutely avalanche down, however, is in its ambiguous council feel. While this weakness can be a tad annoying in accustomed driving, the abridgement of attention can be complete alarming aback you're aggravating to accumulate the barter and the large, abounding bivouac blind off its aback centered in its lane on a ambagious two-lane road. Alike with aggregate abroad actuality equal, this shortcoming abandoned should account abeyant buyers to abeyance continued abundant to analysis out the Ram and GM offerings.
