Short Take Road Test - Car and Driver (blog)
What Is It. . It’s the least-powerful F-150, and it borrows the least-powerful Mustang engine. 7-liter V-6 makes 302 hp and 278 lb-ft of torque in the truck and ostensibly replaces the old 292-hp, 4. 6-liter V-8, which it bests in hp, modernity, and fuel efficiency. The result is an eminently usable full-size truck with a downsized engine. Although the 3. 7-liter can be found in the engine bay of trucks of all cab styles, you can’t option a V-6 SuperCrew with four-wheel drive or a long bed. At more than 5200 pounds—about 120 fewer than its next-heaviest and next-most-powerful sibling, with the 5. 0-liter V-8—there isn’t much truck downsizing to match the smaller engine. The engine is quiet—remarkably so at idle—but makes itself known when reaching toward the top of the 7000-rpm tach, emitting a pleasant, purposeful sound. Plus, we enjoyed the juxtaposition of screaming-to-6900-rpm-redline engine audio and the visual cues of driving a truck. That persistent goosing of the right pedal led to observed fuel economy of 15 mpg, below the EPA’s 17 mpg city/23 highway ratings. Although the same electrically assisted setup is used in other F-150s, its behavior differed greatly from that of a 4x4 5. 0-liter truck we recently drove. Source: www.caranddriver.com
