Mixed crash test results for new Ford F-150 - Fox17
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The new all-aluminum Ford F-150 crew cab pickup did well in a tough new crash test but the slightly smaller SuperCab version of the truck earned poor marks. The larger Ford F-150 SuperCrew version of the truck has added structures that helped protect the passenger compartment during the small overlap test. The SuperCab truck earned the Insitute’s second-worst rating of “Marginal” in the test. The Insurance Institute was originally going to test only the larger SuperCrew truck because that’s the most popular version of the truck. After learning of the structural differences from other versions of the truck, though, the Institute decided to test the smaller version as well. In the future, the Institute will test more than one version of large pickups like the F-150, the Institute said. When this crash test was introduced in 2012, the new F-150 was already far into development, Ford spokesman Mike Levine said. Engineers weren’t able to design the extra front-end braces quickly enough for all versions, he said, so a decision was made to add them first to the four-door SuperCrew truck which accounts for a large majority of F-150 sales. Source: fox17online.com
