2015 Ford F-150 lays the groundwork for the future of the pickup - New York Daily News
Pickups are designed to tow trailers and to haul weight, but people with no such intentions also buy trucks in big numbers. City folks ought to listen to Kip Moore’s “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” to gain insight into how a big slice of the American population thinks and feels about their pickups. Even in northwest suburban Los Angeles, where I spent a week driving this 2015 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew with 4-wheel drive and the automaker’s new turbocharged, 2. 7-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine, trucks are popular. The multi-millionaires of Malibu evidently favor Ford SVT F-150 Raptors. All of these truck drivers careen down the freeways doing 80 mph, V-8 engines rumbling with menace, some belching billowing clouds of consumed diesel into California’s blue skies. Comparatively speaking, my EcoBoosted F-150 test truck was hardly noticeable, and not just because its Guard paint color helped it blend into the seasonally green countryside. Though completely redesigned, the new F-150 looks too much like other Ford trucks (both past and present) to make much of a visual impact in traffic. I’m not a guy who needs a truck, but I am a guy who likes having one around. From hauling mountain bikes for a day of riding beach paths with my little girl to running over to the garden center for bags of topsoil, a truck just makes life easy. Source: www.nydailynews.com
