Ford F150 EcoBoost Sales Top a Half Million - Torque News
Ford introduced the F150 with the high tech EcoBoost V6 engine for the 2011 model year with quite a bit of skepticism, but those naysayers have been proven to be very, very wrong as the Motor Company has sold more than a half million F150 pickups... The first time that I had a chance to talk to a Ford Motor Company representative about the prospects of a twin turbocharged V6 engine in the Ford F150 was in 2009. This person (who asked then to remain nameless for obvious reasons) told me that... He explained that the company knew that there would be a ton of push back from the hardcore truck market if Ford was to introduce a twin turbo V6 as a premium engine option, regardless of how much power that little boosted engine provided to the... When the 2011 Ford F150 was introduced with the 3. 5L EcoBoost V6 as the premium engine option, the hardcore truck buyers who were expected to freak out about a premium twin turbo V6 in place of a naturally aspirated V8 did just that. Source: www.torquenews.com
