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Identifying the First-Gen Ford Mustang2025 Toyota Tundra vs 2025 Ford F-150
The Ford F-150 is king in sales, but the Tundra might have a few tricks up its sleeve to compete against it. We compare specs to see which comes out on top.
The Top-Selling Pickup vs the Snappy Underdog
The Toyota Tundra is the unstoppable force to the Ford F-150‘s immovable object. Yes, RAM and Chevy are there too, but you have to out-sell the F-150 and out-engineer the Tundra to have a shot in the full-size truck space. There’s a reason even a Cummins diesel couldn’t save the Nissan Titan, mind you.
Specs
The 2025 Toyota Tundra isn’t one of those trucks that tries to overwhelm you with a slew of engine choices, most of which you’re probably not interested in anyway. Just a twin-turbo 3.4-liter V6 making 389 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque paired to a ten-speed automatic transmission, or that same drivetrain paired to an AC electric motor and a 1.87 kWh nickel-metal-hydride battery pack and 437 horsepower combined. You also get 583 lb-ft of torque with the hybrid drivetrain.
The Tundra i-FORCE MAX nets fuel economy figures in the low 20 MPG range and just a bit less for the straight-ICE variant. But that not-so-great fuel economy at least translates to great towing capacity. We’re talking up to 12,000 lbs with the proper tow hitch and rigging out back. Add bed sizes of 5.5, 6.5, and 8.1 feet, and there’s enough space and power to handle most non-heavy-duty truck loads. The F-150, on the other hand, is anything but simple in the engine choice department.
The smallest-displacement engine in the range is a 325-horsepower 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 that jets 400 lb-ft of torque. Up the range, a 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 with 400 horses and 500 lb-ft of torque brings the F-150’s power figures beyond that of the Tundra. It also bests the Tundra’s towing capacity at 13,500 lbs, and the Tundra’s bed payload capacity of 1,940 lbs with an impressive 2,440 lbs. This same engine is called the PowerBoost when paired to a full-hybrid drivetrain and delivers better power and torque figures than the straight-ICE variant, 430 horses and 570 ft-lbs. The tradeoff is a slightly smaller towing capacity of 11,200 lbs and a payload rating of 2,120 lbs. You also get the choice of a 5.5-foot short bed, a 6.5-foot standard bed, and an 8-foot long bed
Ford hasn’t dropped the option of a V8 from the F-150. A 400-horse five-liter unit with 410 lb-ft of torque is undoubtedly less stressed than a high-strung V6 in a truck like this. It’s an option any tradesman should really consider. Rounding off the range, the Raptor line of F-150 performance trucks sports a 3.5-liter twin-turbo EcoBoost V6 in the standard F-150 Raptor and a 5.2-liter supercharged V8 in the Raptor R. That’s to the tune of 450 horsepower and 720 horsepower respectively.
Fuel economy varies wildly between all the different drivetrain choices. But with so many to choose from, there’s bound to be one out there that is more efficient than a Tundra mixed with ones that are far less so. Even so, it’s a decisive dub for Ford in the drivetrain department.
Comfort and Interior
The F-150 has so much variation in interior dimensions, it’d be a chore to list it all in one place. However, seeing as Ford is the only truck here with the option of a single cab with just two doors, it’s fair that the F-150 is the more adaptable platform in this respect. The crew cab gives a generous 44 inches of rear legroom to the occupants back there. Leather seats enter the fray, replacing either cloth or leatherette, starting with the King Ranch Edition. These seats massage you in the front starting with the range-topping Platinum trim at $74,805.
On the Tundra side, you get 41.6 inches of rear legroom in the double cab and 33.3 inches with the short cab, both with four doors. You also get high-quality SofTex vegan leather while the Platinum trim introduces leather seats. The range-topping Capstone trim at $80,725 ups the quality of this leather to Lexus quality, a tempting offer if trucks trimmed like Bentleys or Cadillacs is your thing. It’s hard to pick between the two, but the extra legroom in the Ford gives it the slimmest of advantages here.
Trims and Features
Both the Tundra and F-150 have gargantuan trim lineups with price rampups between the entry trim and the most tricked-out trim spanning tens of thousands of dollars. With that in mind, it’s best to show the real highlights. The F-150 is a total digital powerhouse with a digitized gauge cluster 12 inches long and a matching central touchscreen of equal size beside it. Even the base F-150 XL comes equipped this way. You’d hope it will be, because it costs $38,710 to start before dealer markups.
Each 2025 F-150 also comes with Ford’s Co-Pilot360 suite of driver assistants that give you all the collision mitigation and blind spot monitoring capability that’s standard across the industry nowadays. There’s also a five-star safety rating if you care about that kind of thing. On the Tundra side, there’s much of the same, just a little different. Its center screen starts at eight inches at the base $40,090 SR trim and jumps to 14 inches with the limited trim at $54,035.
Up the range, a 12.3-inch configurable gauge cluster is just a bit bigger than the fords, and there’s more USB-C ports than in an F-150. For what it’s worth, Toyota‘s Safety Sense 2.5 driver assistant suite is on par with the Co-Pilot360 suite in the F-150. Its five-star safety rating also parallels that of the F-150. Add a color heads-up display unit, and the Tundra is pretty lavishly equipped. Slight advantage to the Tundra, but it’s a close competition.
The Verdict
In every way that a truck needs to be great to succeed, the F-150 is just a little bit better than a Tundra. Better towing, better bed payload, more interior space, and way more drivetrain selection. But that doesn’t make the Tundra a bad truck by any means. You’re still bound to buy one of the most dependable new full-size trucks on the road when you buy a Tundra.
We have to give the win to the F-150. But as we said, that doesn’t condemn the other side of this comparison. Let us remind you that it isn’t a Silverado or a Ram 1500 being compared to the Tundra for this very reason.
