2015 Medium-Duty Truck Trends - Truckinginfo
Between light-duty pickups and Class 8 haulers sits the industry’s largest segment — medium-duty trucks. “We are seeing increased growth and sales in the medium-duty segment,” says Mark Lowrey, marketing manager for F-Series Fleet Trucks at Ford. They include gas-prep packages for natural gas and propane upfits, automatic transmissions that allow engines to operate at optimal rpm ranges and open opportunities for more diverse driver employment, low-rolling-resistance tires, and gear ratio... For the 2016 model year, Ford’s F-650 and F-750 trucks will be offered with both gasoline and diesel engines, as well as compressed natural gas and propane autogas engine prep packages. All models will come with Ford’s 6-Speed TorqShift SelectShift automatic transmission, which features double-overdrive ratios and low-end 3. 97 to 1 first gear. Ford is offering for the first time an optional 6. 8-liter V-10 gasoline engine with the 6R140 transmission, as well as the 6. 7-liter Power Stroke V-8 turbo diesel engine, which is rated at 270. Source: www.truckinginfo.com
