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With new emissions regs, can heavy truck makers go all-in on aluminum with Ford-like success?
Ford shaved 750 pounds from its flagship F-150 pickup for model year 2015 by converting much of the steel body to aluminum. For 2017, Ford will apply a similar strategy to its beefier Super Duty line. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) threw […]
August 24, 2016
Construction Equipment
Ford has been secretly testing prototype 2015 F-150s at construction sites and mines for 3 years (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
[imagebrowser id=85] “Drive it like you stole it and work it hard.” Those were the marching orders Denis Kanseir, the lead prototype engineer on Ford’s 2015 F-150’s, gave the drivers of six pickups distributed evenly among three different companies when they were handed the keys back in the latter half of 2011. Barrick Mining, Elko, […]
May 29, 2014
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