Well, the tow was terrible...the truck may be rated for 7500lbs but even when I commanded it to run in 4th at 55mph it still lacked the oomph. The truck was and is currently disappointing. This truck is best treated as a car, the rear end ratio is clearly too tall for duty like this. Mileage was equally terrible...9.9mpg. My dodge does that with a loaded gooseneck.

The bed is deeper than competitors actually, I must applaud that, An easy 4-5 inches deeper than my dodge and that makes up for being more than a foot shorter. (I have the 6.5ft bed which is actually 80" to wall to closed tailgate on my dodge. If you dig around my photobucket you can see a picture of the dodge hard at work.

My be all end all take on a Ford F150 from 2011 to current? Skip the 5.0 UNLESS your getting the 3.92 rear end (which only can be had in an FX4/STX) Skip the Crew Cab for straight scrapping BUT get it if your a one man band e scrapper...material you need to sort and keep out of the weather...nice to have a 3 foot clear space to keep it. Always take the 4x4, you want that because the rear end can then be had with limited slip AND you can get the heavy duty cooling package with your trailer tow group. ECOBOOST IS GOOD. It's a good engine, but the plugs should be changed if it has more than 50k miles when you buy it. The extended cab and crew cab are the only trucks you can get with the ecoboost, the regular cab can be had with the 3.7 or the 5.0 or the 6.2...none of which are financially viable for towing.

Conclusion from that? E scrappers will delight in an ecoboost F150 so long as they have an appropriate trailer. It will be presentable to the customer as being professional and keep fuel use low enough to make profit margins high enough to justify a newer truck. The crew cab is probably the way to go since its vital to the escrapper to maximize on components with potential re usability. The general purpose scrapper wants a 5.0 or 3.7 regular cab 8 foot bed truck. You cannot get the ecoboost like that but a 6.5 foot bed can be had in extended cab which then lets you get the ecoboost. If you own the truck for the next seven years you can bet the price of gas will double in that time...and your current truck probably doesn't get 20mpg with a loaded bed and run on regular unleaded.