That guy is an idiot. I wouldn't trust him to change the oil on a car, much less tell me about frame strength . If that is official Ford material, it is pathetic. I have seen him do "reviews" before, for Ford, I think.

 

That guy is an idiot. I wouldn't trust him to change the oil on a car, much less tell me about frame strength . If that is official Ford material, it is pathetic. I have seen him do "reviews" before, for Ford, I think.

Yey, he is Rick Titus I believe...he is on the Ford website and does a video called "the truth about trucks". LOL, isnt it funny that he is bashing the front grille and how it will catch bugs? Wow, now that is desperate! Also, everytime he looks at a Tundra part, he claims Toyota copied it from Ford (10.5" ring gear, brakes, etc). To me, it speaks volumes about the Tundra as he clearly is desperate to make the Tundra look bad. Without a doubt, the new Tundra change the face of 1/2 ton pickups.

 

shows

how desperate Ford is! This is what you do when you are dead last in the truck race. They want to talk sales? Here is an important number to remember, they lost 4 GRAND on every truck they sold last year. They could barely give them away. I could pick apart his little tirade, and i'm certainly no Tundra or truck expert. I'm sure some of you could really rip him a new one.

 

Ford is just a little scared that Toyota is going to snatch up a few previous Ford owners. Ford absolutely can't afford to lose loyal F150 owners. Some one has to pay the pensions and health care of those former union retirees.

 

Ford should be EMBARRASSED!!! What an F'ing tool.

 

Glad I'm getting rid of my F250 diesel (for the Tundra...)

 

Wow, at first I wa kinda mad at this a$$hole. He trys to get his point across by using big words and complex sentances. But about 1/2 way through I just felt sorry for this guy. You can see in his face that he is just a scared old man.

 

I kinda was thinking it was a joke, like a bunch of Toyota techs were going to jump out and beat the living $h!t out of him or run him over with the Tundra. But I guess he was serious....yeah seriously delusional.

 

If Toyota ever mad a short film like this, I don't know if i could ever buy Toyota again. Seems like Ford was trying to reach a group of people in the lower IQ bracket, cause any Ford owner with some smarts is gonna know there being b.s'ed

 

I cant wait for this guy to get a hold of a Tundra and "tear it apart".

I wonder how he likes his crow cooked? Fried, maybe boiled.

Clearly a desperate attempt.

 

they are complaining about cleaning off bugs, BUGS?!!! Yea they really understand truck drivers, all truck drivers that use their trucks for hard work really worry about the bugs, lol

 

I just watched the whole video, is this really a corporate video?? If it is, I feel really sad for Ford. It is a desperate and pathetic attempt at re-floating their sinking boat. I can't wait to get rid of my Ford, the last three have been utter disappointments. This is one more disappointment from Ford. It is even tackier than their "sales deals" BS that they screw customers with.

 

that guy should be embarrassed. what a fool.

 

Punctuates the problem Ford has been getting into for too long; trying to sell 'heritage' vs. a good product. We work too hard for our money to succumb to flag waving sell strategies. Love to see this guys face when actually punches that 5.7!

 

I can't believe I wasted 6 minutes and 42 seconds listening to this tool. He'd say human feces was a great source of vitamins and went lovely as a side dish if someone paid him enough. Turns my stomach to see a sellout.

 

i get offended when dumass like him wanna try to f**k up toyota. as far as im concerned, ford has the worst braking sayingg that we copied the size of the brake rotors! ford is worst in braking, 0-60, 0-60-0, quarter mile, etc. tear the tundra to bits??? tie a rope to the tundra and the ford and god bless american, tell me who would win. that son of a motherless b*tch dont know s**t what he talking about. offhand, they brag about their ford lighting which has a supercharger that tops out 380hp. tundra has 381 non boosted!!! put a supercharger in a tundra and get well over 450hp!!! i didnt mean to use a lot of language but i hate people like him. and then bugs??? ITS A TRUCK FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!

 

I just watched the whole video, is this really a corporate video?? If it is, I feel really sad for Ford. It is a desperate and pathetic attempt at re-floating their sinking boat. I can't wait to get rid of my Ford, the last three have been utter disappointments. This is one more disappointment from Ford. It is even tackier than their "sales deals" BS that they screw customers with.

It really is a corporate video. They did the same thing when the new F-150 came out. Based the Double Cab Tundra because the "gas cap would fly open on a bumpy road" and other measly crap.

A friend of mine is a diesel tech at the local ford dealership and can't stand those videos. He says every tech there knows how crappy those video's are. Amazing isn't it

 

This guy is actually a good rep for Ford. Their vehicles are second-rate so he fits right in.

 

I stopped the video about 1 minute in......I wanted to jack this guy up. There was a minute of my life i'll never get back. I drive a ford now, but that is just plain rediculous how he just pics everything apart.

 

I just googled this Rick Titus guy, its seems that he has been in and out of re-hab for various meth problems. He also has a few charges pending involving "beastiality". What a great spokesman.

 

I stopped the video about 1 minute in......I wanted to jack this guy up. There was a minute of my life i'll never get back. I drive a ford now, but that is just plain rediculous how he just pics everything apart.

The bad part is, is that he's probably a decent guy but his job is to pi$$ everyone off.

Their old video's are a complete joke too. Just a shame that Ford goes to that extreme to sell their truck. If they brag about their heritage they shouldn't have such a degrading add. It's a shame....

 

It was hilarious how he said Ford knows how to build trucks. On the news today, Ford is having yet another recall because of problems with the cruise control. It affects ALL F-series trucks from the 150 to the 550 plus the Excursion. And then there was the recall because the engine bays would spontanteously burst into flames.

You're right Ford, you really do know how to build trucks :tu:

 

I have a little bit to say about this, considering my daily driver is a 2007 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 crew cab fleet truck. It was ordered for me brand new and I now have 6000 miles on it, so in the great words of Samuel L. Jackson, "Allow me to Retort": Here's my play by play if anyone cares...

First off, this jackass is talking about the F-150's frame like its an act of god or something. Sure the F-150's frame may be fully boxed, and the crossmembers may be welded but IT STILL RIDES AND HANDLES LIKE ****!! I know, I drive it every day, on road and off; the bed shakes, the doors shake, the dash shakes, sure its "quiet steel" but it still shakes and wobbles everywhere. The Triple tech frame on the Tundra reduces NVH while providing fully boxed strength where its needed, which is NOT the length of the truck.

Secondly, He goes on to insinuate that the outboard shocks were copied from ford, which may be true on the Tundra, BUT the 4th gen 4Runner (2003-present) has outboard shocks, which was before Ford started doing it!!

Then he again insinuates that the new 5.7 is going to be fuel inefficient. Hey moron, I have the 4.6 V8 (which i might add is a pathetic motor) in my work truck an it gets a whopping 14 mpg average and over half my driving is highway.

Haha!!! Inefficient brakes!! Someone do some research for me but I can GUARANTEE that any model Tundra can stop faster than my work truck. I'd bet huge money on that.

His interior bit is all subjective...All personal opinion, is that really the best he can do? Now I get what everyone's been saying, I really am starting to feel sorry for this guy.

On to the grille, my F-150 has a honeycomb grille with about 200 different hexagons, that isn't hard to clean???

Wow, so that was all he had huh? "Adjustible second row seats, to go where?" How about back so the person in the seat has more leg room?? Funny he points that out likes its bad in the Tundra, but Ford doesn't even offer it.

A couple other things that bother me about my work truck: If you park closer than 2 feet to another car good luck getting both doors open. The long front door has to open at least 30-35 degrees for the rear "suicide" door to open fully. Good luck doing that with you in the middle as well. The dash, while attractive looking is made of the thinnest hollowest plastic ever. And its big enough to house a small family inside of it. The heat never stays a constant temperature up, down, up, down, I'm constantly adjusting it. The wheels a manufactured such that when I drive in deep mud it gets inside the wheel and stays there so now I have a horrible shimmy from 60 mph on up and this is assuming its the mud and not the aluminum bottom link being bent. Throttle tip in is way overboosted. It feels like it has the same power at 10% throttle as it does at 50%. The brakes are HORRIBLE and there is about 4 inches of travel before anything happens...and I could go on.

So sad Ford had to result to this...

 

ford has the worst braking sayingg that we copied the size of the brake rotors! ford is worst in braking

Agree - on my last 4 ford trucks brake rotors had to be either changed or turned on average every 40,000kms. GARBAGE
After a turn, a ford rotor lasts 15,000kms tops.

 

I just googled this Rick Titus guy, its seems that he has been in and out of re-hab for various meth problems. He also has a few charges pending involving "beastiality". What a great spokesman.

From Wikipedia:

Rick Titus is an accomplished automotive journalist and a racing champion. Following in the footsteps of his father, legendary racer and automotive journalist Jerry Titus, Rick Titus served as team crew member in the early ’70s and went on to capture 11 pro wins on the SCCA Endurance Road Racing circuit. “Motorsports requires split-second, high-stakes decisions,” Titus says. “My racing experiences taught me that individual choices, whether in driving or engineering or sales, really do count. Sometimes you just don’t have a second chance to get it right.”
Titus’ hands-on involvement with cars and trucks, including a stint as head of engineering at a leading automotive accessories manufacturer, led to an outstanding journalism career. His credits include over 350 articles or segments for Motor Trend (Technical Editor), Popular Mechanics (West Coast Automotive Editor), TNN (NASCAR Editor), Mustang and Fast Fords (Engineering Editor), Road & Track Specials (Features Editor) and Sports Car Magazine (Technical Editor).
As the host of Drivers Talk Radio, Titus knows what listeners like: “We help our listeners differentiate a vehicle from the competition. It all comes down to the fact that customers don’t drive a price, they drive a product.”
Delivering over 4,000 presentations in the past 10 years, Titus has reached automotive executives, dealers and sales consultants through new-product introductions, sales training sessions, and more. Although he has consulted and written for a number of manufacturers, Titus is especially proud of his 20-year association with Ford Motor Company people and products.
Recently featured in a national television campaign for the 2004 Ford Freestar, Titus takes his high-profile status in stride. “I consider it a privilege to share my point of view with the public,” he comments. “There’s a growing trend toward greater consumer information in advertising, and I believe these ads signal a new direction in the way major auto companies will communicate with the public."
Now a lifetime member of the American Automotive Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) as well as a member of the Motor Press Guild, Titus takes to the airwaves each week on Driver’s Talk Radio along with a stellar team of automotive journalists. “With a motorsports background, there’s always an undercurrent of competition in our group,” Titus says. "Our goal is to cut straight through the “product logic” of a given vehicle, helping our listeners navigate the marketing maze and mechanical double-speak of the new-car game. We’re part guide and part interpreter of the industry.”
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It seems that he really believes in what is doing. Or he just sold his own soul to Ford.

Jochen