The Best Ford Truck For Actual Powersports Lovers Is This Base-Spec Off-Road Super Duty

My friend found the perfect new truck. And it doesn't cost $100,000.

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Jonathon Klein

By: Jonathon Klein

Oct 19, at 9:30am ET

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I hate how expensive trucks have become in recent years. Seriously, even my beloved Honda Ridgeline seems like its become unobtainable for a vast majority of new truck buyers because of the inflation that the whole segment has seen. And that's because, well, I need a damn truck.

I tow. I haul. I use my truck to go off-road, to toss motorcycles into the back of, to hunt and fish, and to take my powersports vehicles out to go do powersport vehicle things. But affording something like a new truck, or even a used one—if I'm being honest—has become only a rich person's game. My best bet? Finding a used Super Duty at a government auction that used to be used by the Forest Service (RIP) with 180,000 miles on the clock. And those are hard-earned 180,000 miles, you know? Those are fire trails and rocky stuff, and they've treated those trucks like old garage rags.

But that's the reality of 2026. Or is it?

One of my colleagues, Nick Jaynes, recently found a cheat code. An option and spec list that most truck buyers aren't aware of when they head to the dealership to buy a new truck. And it could rewrite a lot of folks' buying habits. That is unless Ford kills it before too many people take them up on this insane Konami-level up, right, left, down, A, A, B, A-type sneakiness. Please don't, Ford, I really want one too.

Jaynes was in need of a new truck and, naturally, went scrolling through all the available configurators. RAM, Chevrolet, GMC, and, of course, Ford. He was looking for an HD truck, too, as he wanted to haul his camper out into the middle of nowhere—he's a man after my own heart. And that's when he discovered you could basically build a Tremor-spec Ford Super Duty without adding the Tremor-spec Ford Super Duty price by selecting exactly one option package: the XL Off-Road 35" Tire Package.

Now, adding the Tremor package to just about any truck in Ford's fleet adds thousands upon thousands of dollars to the overall sticker price. I tried to build an F-150 Tremor the other day and it added up to $70,000. But by selecting a base F-350 Super Duty XL and hitting that XL Off-Road 35-inch Tire Package, you not only get Ford's Godzilla V8 engine, not only do you get the towing and payload capacities of the F-350 Super Duty, but you're getting that for $61,000. \

Minus tax, title, and registration, obviously.

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Even so, you're out the door with a 2027 Ford F-350 Super Duty that can handle basically anything you throw at it for under the price of most quarter-ton trucks. That's not just a deal, that's a screamin' deal. Though, there is a small caveat, and that's you're gonna have to likely wait for one to be built, as almost no dealership is going to order this spec truck, i.e., it ain't going to be on a dealership lot. And, unfortunately, you're going to also have to deal with your local dealership who likely isn't going to want to order you this truck, as they're making nothing on this deal.

Still, in the year 2026, this could be the absolute perfect truck. Man, I need a better job, cause I desperately want to order one for myself.