2023 Ford Super Duty Brings Interior Style, Clever Tech—and Torque to Spare

• The 2023 Ford F-250 Super Duty can tow up to 40,000 pounds in certain configurations.

• This brutish work truck introduces a new 6.8-liter V8 as its base engine, which makes 405 hp and 445 lb-ft of torque.

• The '23 F-250 Super Duty starts at $45,865 and is on sale now.

If you thought the truck world was going to slow down in the hunt for opulence or spec sheet supremacy, you were wrong. At least, Ford wanted to put a pin in the discussion with the latest iteration of its Super Duty pickup lineup. The heavier-duty off-shoot of its F-Series lineup, these pickups used to be just tools that were tasked with the painful life of pulling trailers, moving heavy payloads, and breathing through worksite dust and debris.

While that’s still the case, and possibly more work-ready than ever, the line of Ford Super Duty trucks now does that hard work with the creature comforts you could only have dreamed about 20 years ago. Oh yeah, and Ford’s latest Super Duty resets the bar for absurd spec sheet numbers and helped expand the company’s pushrod engine lineup.

The biggest jaw-dropper from the latest F-250 Super Duty is its top-flight 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel, which crossed into the four-figure torque number in 2020 with 1050 lb-ft of torque and 475 hp. That’s old news. The new star is the high-output version of that 6.7-liter turbocharged diesel V8, which now makes 500 hp and 1200 lb-ft of torque. If you don’t want or need that much gusto, that 1050-lb-ft Power Stroke is still available as the entry-level diesel.

That’s not the only shakeup under the Super Duty’s massive hood. The base 6.2-liter Boss gasoline V8 has seen the end of the road. In its place is a de-stroked variant of the Godzilla V8. Displacing 6.8 liters, the new base gas engine sends 405 hp and 445 lb-ft of torque through the standard 10-speed automatic. Of course, that’s not the only gasoline-burning option. The 7.3-liter Godzilla naturally aspirated V8 is still on the menu as an option, and Ford’s team squeezed a little more power out of it for ’23, now sending 430 hp and 485 lb-ft of torque through the standard 10-speed transmission.