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This Ford F-150-shaped corn maze is neat, but the real star is its F-450 pumpkin cannon (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
Each year the folks at Leaders Farms in northwest Ohio choose a theme for their famous corn maze. This year, Brad Leaders got a bit of inspiration from the new Ford F-150. After all, he’s been using a Ford as his primary pumpkin firing apparatus for years. “Brad was reading a magazine last winter and […]
October 29, 2015
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Ford issues 2015 F-150 recall due to adaptive cruise control defect
As we saw with both the 2016 F-150 Limited and the recently-unveiled 2017 Super Duty pickups, Ford is placing an emphasis on technology in its attempts to stand out from the rest of the truck-making crowd. And that’s a good thing. Among the 16 segment-first Ford touts on the new Super Duty trucks are a […]
October 9, 2015
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Ford boosts the F-150’s acceleration by adding the same sport mode found on the Mustang
One of the cool things about development at Ford is the amount of cross-pollination of ideas that occurs between the automaker’s truck and car engineering teams. For instance, the 2017 F-150 Raptor unveiled earlier this year will be powered by the same turbocharged EcoBoost V6 as the GT supercar. And now the automaker has announced […]
August 13, 2015
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Ford F-150 production reportedly held back by supply shortage of the truck’s frame
Though Ford’s new aluminum-bodied F-150 faced an initial uphill battle in the months after its unveiling early in 2014, since the truck’s launch in the fall, the automaker has largely eased any early concerns or questions customers may have had over durability, repair or insurance costs with the truck’s aluminum body. However, despite indications of high demand […]
June 9, 2015
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Power Wheels 2015 Ford F-150s are so tough they can support full weight of the real truck
Remember the Power Wheels 2015 Ford F-150? It was announced last year, but in the time since, Ford and Fisher Price decided to put the toy truck’s two years of engineering through a pretty rigid, though simple, test. At first glance, and especially if you can recall the feel and handling of a Power Wheels vehicle […]
April 24, 2015
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Ford F-150 insurance costs aren’t going up and that new aluminum body might actually be why they begin to drop
When Ford released the 2015 F-150 into the wild, some predicted that insurance costs on the truck could increase over prior years. Unsubstantiated or not, many thought durability and repair cost concerns over the truck’s new aluminum body would cause insurers to up their monthly premiums. But as customers have taken delivery of their new F-150s […]
March 25, 2015
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Ford retains V8 engine roar in 2015 F-150 V6 using a bit of audio wizardry and the truck’s speakers
Though Ford engineers actually figured out a way to get V8 power out of the EcoBoost V6 engine in the 2015 F-150, what they weren’t able to figure out was how to make a V6 produce sound like a V8. Knowing that certain customers might miss that rumble and roar, Ford engineers came up with a solution […]
March 19, 2015
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2015 Ford F-150 resale value increases thanks to improved fuel economy, Toyota Tundra retains top spot
If the better fuel economy and lighter aluminum construction weren’t quite enough to push you over the edge into buying Ford’s new 2015 F-150, automotive analysts have placed one more feather in the truck’s cap. According to a report from Bloomberg, analysts with TrueCar’s ALG division say the resale value of the new F-150 is up 11.5 […]
March 13, 2015
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The mining company that tested Ford’s aluminum prototypes was so impressed it ordered a fleet 2015 F-150s
Barrick Gold USA played a key role in the development of Ford’s new F-150. The mining survey team for the largest gold producer in the world drove two prototype F-150s with experimental aluminum-alloy cargo boxes at the company’s Bald Mountain and Cortez mines in Nevada from 2013 to 2014. They beat on them, battered them and […]
February 11, 2015
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Innovations Award Winner: 2015 Ford F-150
Innovation is the result of conquering a difficult quest using imagination fueled by passion and experience. The 2015 F-150 is a rolling example full of innovation, and its aluminum body is just one example of why it’s deserving of one of Equipment World’s 2015 Innovation awards. Twenty-some years ago a young automotive body structures engineer […]
January 8, 2015
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2015 Ford F-150 wins Truck Trend’s Pickup Truck of the Year Award
Despite parent publication Motor Trend‘s choice to award its coveted Truck of the Year award to the dark horse Chevrolet Colorado, Truck Trend went with the heavy favorite in choosing its Pickup Truck of the Year. The Truck Trend editors said that while the newly redesigned F-150’s fuel- and weight-saving aluminum design are impressive, the truck took the […]
January 7, 2015
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Construction work the star of Ford’s focused new TV spots for 2015 F-150
In what Ford is calling its biggest truck marketing campaign ever, the automaker is prominently featuring construction work in three new ads for the 2015 F-150. Ford began running the ads on TV during the College Football Playoff semifinal games last night. One of the ads, titled “What’s Next,” focuses on the 2015 model’s new […]
January 2, 2015
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