Brand new ford F 150 was racing from red light to red light, I was surprised how quickly he was getting off the line.

At the next set of lights I fired up all 2.0 138 pop corn popping horse power in my Hyundia Elantra Touring 5sp..

This truly a apples to oranges thing as thiers nothing truck like with my car and as for performance, I some times feel grannys power chair can out performe my car that is abought a third of the whight as a full size truck.

From a dead stop the eco bost walked away until I hit third gear, man I was surprised how quickly the ford lost its go power in comparison to my little 4 banger.

So. From a standing start to highway speed, the eco bost is impressive for a V6 powerd full size truck , but its not the cats meow in stright line performance.

With less than half the horse power and a lot less mass, a 4 banger can out drag a ecco bost,

 

On the other hand, this weeks Trucks episode took a quad cab King Ranch diesel and ran it to an 8.30 in the 1/8th mile with a tuner & exhaust, then down to a 7.90 with nitrous. That's just stupid fast for something that weighs that much. My old Stealth's best 1/8th mile slip was a 7.86 and I'd be shocked to see a giant truck next to me at the end.

If the EcoBoost wants to pick on Hyundais, it's only fair that they try a Sonata turbo.

 

Thanks for this post it was perfect timing

Here's why: my insurance guy drives a F-150 and I'm always giving his **** about it and he is a good sport and takes it along with giving me **** about my Dodge so anyway I read this post about 15mins before I went to pay my insurance and so I was curious if his was the ecoboost and I always park next to his truck and had never seen the decal for it so today I figured I would look and guess what right on drivers door there it was the ecoboost decal so when I went in I told him I had a story for him and so I read your post to him and he just stared blankly at me with a half a smile and just shook his head all I have to say is that was by far the greatest reaction I have got out of him talking about the sh!tty fords

 

No way in hell my elantra would stand a chance against any of my vehicles lol. However in the Ford's defense there's no way to be sure he's fully on it. And power to weight ratio is a huge factor in this as well. (Think 190hp bike vs a hemi equipped charger, ram etc). And especially a truck the amount of drag both in drive train and aero dynamics.

 

Oh ford driver was on it hard, sqacking the tires, after I hit the rev limiter in 1st gear he just laughed at me and pullled away until I hit third and was pulling away, turbo whine and the hard down shift of the automatic convinced me he was all into it.

Hyundias 4 cy non turbo cars are not high performance products, less hp with less mass is a fair race with more hp and more mass.

Like I said before its a apples to bannana comparison as the elantra will never come close to ever being a truck.

 

Did it ever occur to you that he probably let off

 

yup, had to of let off..... otherwise there would of been no downshift

 

Sounds more like the ricer was trying to pick on the ford to me. Pretty lame story, which IMO didn't happen