2015 Ford F-150 XLT pickup truck — a diet of aluminum reduces weight by 700 ... - seattlepi.com (blog)
Outside my window, on the second day of spring here in Maine, it’s snowing, and snowing hard. Which means it’s also snowing on the 2015 Ford F-150 XLT, and we get to play with four-wheel-drive today. The point of all this is that the F-150, originally introduced in 1948 as a no-nonsense work truck, has evolved over the years as something of a multi-talented performer – it’s still a work truck, but, with enough comfort-zone doodads to make you... This has brought Ford to the enviable position of producing the nation’s best-selling vehicle for more than 30 years, with 753,851 F-150s sold in the U. S. last year. the only important change to the F-150 – and it is a big one, even if it’s not clearly obvious – is that, in an effort to pare weight and perhaps increase fuel mileage, Ford reduced the weight of the F-150 by 700 pounds by using aluminum, instead... The F-150 ranges in price from less than $27,000 to more than $51,000 (it’s all those comfortable add-ons that bring this up to Mercedes and BMW pricing territory. ) Our tester was a 4×4 Supercab XLT model with a six-speed automatic transmission, the trailer tow package, cloth seats separated by a huge console box (all the better for the laptop and the camera), a back seat that will do fine for a jaunt... Source: blog.seattlepi.com
