Review: all-new Ford F-150 - Fort Worth Star Telegram
Always have been, always will be, because we’re Texas and we’re special. So if you’re Ford Motor Co. and you sell more pickups in Texas than anybody, you wouldn’t want to do something crazy like, oh, switch from steel bodies to aluminum. , and Kansas City, Mo. , plants and selling ’em just as fast as you make ’em, even in Texas. Ford is going for both. The F-150’s aluminum body is 700 pounds lighter than the previous steel version. And the engineers are extracting maximum power from minimum displacement with their new, lightweight twin-turbo 2. 7-liter EcoBoost V6 engine. Featuring auto start/stop, it wrings out 325 hp and 375 lb-ft of torque for an estimated 22 mpg (combined) while generating impressive towing and payload numbers that’ll keep Texans (and everybody else) happy: 8,500 and 2,250 pounds, respectively. 5-liter EcoBoost V6 with 365 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque, generating 12,200 pounds of towing and 3,270 pounds of payload. 5-liter V6 with 282 hp and 253 lb-ft of torque. 7,600 pounds of towing and 1,910 pounds of payload. 0-liter V8 with 385 hp and 387 lb-ft of torque. 11,100 pounds of towing and 3,300 pounds of payload. An electronic six-speed automatic transmission with tow/haul mode is standard: a six-speed SelectShift automatic with progressive range. Source: www.star-telegram.com
