You love to go boating and you've always wanted your very own boat.  After careful consideration, you decide on a 32 foot SeaRay, a very nice cruiser that will sleep 6 comfortably and pull a couple of skiers on the back.  Along comes a hot weekend and you are excited about taking your boat to the lake (where you will dock it for the summer months).  You slap a hitch on the back of your 2001 Volkswagon Beetle and you are able to pull it down the road, about a mile, before the transmission fails and the back of the beetle falls apart.  Now you have a vehicle that requires repair and a boat that you cannot get into the water.  You're pretty much dead in the water until you get real about what it will take to efficiently carry your boat.

Had you invested realistically in a 32-valve 6.0-liter Power Stroke® diesel engine and TorqShift® transmission available on the Ford F-250 through F-550 pickups and chassis cab which produces horsepower of 325 at 3,300 rpm and 560 foot-pounds of torque at 2,000 rpm, you would have been "good-to-go" from the very beginning.

No, this article is not about boats and trucks that can pull them.