Ford F250 4×4 Review
Type: Pickup Truck
Toughness: 7.1/10
Availability: 9.5/10
Capability: 6.6/10
Price: 5.5/10
In many ways, reviewing the Ford F250 4×4 on a 4WD website isn’t easy. When we review a 4×4, we actually drive it off road (usually many times) and rate its trail performance. We rate how well it climbs, crawls, holds up, clears obstacles, carries people, fuel, and supplies.
While the F250 4×4 does some things really very well–like carry and tow–it doesn’t excel at things many 4WD’s do well. Like drive off road.
But this is ok. Because we know no one would buy a F250 4×4 (aka: Super Duty) just to go four wheeling in. That would be like buying one to commute in. This is a purpose-built vehicle that does what it does, and makes no apology: it’s a truck.
So…what does the F250 4×4 do well? Well for starters, it will tow just about anything, carry just about everyone, look good just about anywhere, last a reasonably long time, and hold up about as good as can be expected from a North American pickup.
Which means: probably a very long time. Because regardless of your preference, it’s hard to knock American trucks. Except for a few issues (like fuel economy) they are the standard of manly truckness. Or so we think. And the F250 has proven to be a fairly reliable and well built truck.
Where the F250 4×4 lacks is mostly subjective and from the point of view of this site: it probably wouldn’t fit on many 4×4 trails, it’s 4WD cred is limited–even in FX4 trim–and it’s doubtful it would hold together well after prolonged off road abuse the way other purpose-build off road 4x4s might.
So while the F250 would probably give you years of hauling, towing, and daily driving pleasure–and you’d never want for payload or towing capacity–it’s probably best kept off the 4×4 trails.
While it will get you where you want to go in mud, sand, or snow the average driver might encounter, it couldn’t even turn some of the corners on the off-road trails around these parts.
So while on-road the F250 4×4 is a truck thoroughbred, off road…it’s more of a colt simply because it won’t be able to fit into all the places you might like to go.
