2015 Ford F-150 - Car and Driver (blog)
Once a symbol of cheap and tasteless beer, cans seal more tightly than do glass bottles, better protect their contents from UV degradation, and reduce the expense and energy that come with shipping a truck full of brews to your local depot. In the light-duty-truck world, beer cans are either all the rage or the ammunition for all of your rage, depending on which automaker's logo your Calvin decal is pissing on. The aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F-150 brings huge weight savings for... But in the vernacular of a Chevy or Ram loyalist, beer cans take on a condescending connotation, as in “I’d never drive a truck made out of beer cans. They don’t take the beer-can analogy lightly at Ford. "High-strength, military-grade aluminum alloy" purged as much as 500 pounds from the cab and bed of the new truck. With more than three times as much high-strength steel as in the outgoing truck, the underlying frame sheds between 60 and 70 pounds. READ MORE: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the 2015 Ford F-150. We’re always skeptical of manufacturer weight claims, though. When the latest Land Rover Range Rover adopted aluminum construction, its maker claimed a loss of more than 900 pounds. Source: www.caranddriver.com
