For you and all the others getting taxpayer funded subsidies on your personal vehicles... a hearty Your Welcome from someone who has paid his taxes every year since he was 16.
With google as the banner on your cited source...
Everything from google is suspect in my mind and should be verified elsewhere.
I should have stopped with my original post and sort of hate myself for responding further.
A big part, but far from the only part, of Ford setting the tow rating of your truck is/was it's ability to pull the Davis Dam grade out of Bullhead City AZ in 95F plus heat and not overheat.
If, and we have no way of knowing, that was the limiting factor just don't drive steep mountain grades...
Did any of us REALLY believe that the strangest car market since WW2 would not eventually revert to pre-pandemic norms?
Awful lot of people just seem to not remember the weirdness of 2020 through mid 2023. Any of it.
We are doomed to repeat it at this rate.
That Tesla was on federal land. U.S. Forest Service administered National Forest.
Many National Forests, at least in the western states, have provisions for cutting your own Christmas tree.
I think most agree but a week in jail convinced me that 1: I needed to stop drinking (33 years on 12/26) and 2: I don't ever want to spend another night there.
Lethal protection of my tailgate has a good chance of putting me there.
Now if they were armed and attacked me while trying to stop...
It went off road. The problem arose when it attempted to get back on the road.
It can tow 11,000 pounds so it can bring along it's own recovery vehicle. And generator.