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Construction Equipment

The 2015 Ford F-150 can park itself, check your blind spots and give you a back massage

Once new owners of the 2015 Ford F-150 finally get their hands on the trucks in coming weeks, they might encounter a problem. They might not want to get out of the truck. Ford has put together a list of all the nifty driver-assist and comfort features the new technology-packed pickups have to offer and […]

September 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

Fleet and special order 2015 Ford F-150 buyers won’t get their trucks until next year

Those who plan on being among the first to place a special order for a 2015 Ford F-150 may not receive their trucks until early next year. According to a leaked internal memo discovered by Automotive News, fleet buyers and retail customers that order “a specific truck with unique trim colors” won’t receive their trucks until […]

August 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

Construction pros have no doubts over 2015 F-150’s durability: aluminum truck’s weight savings outweigh questions over repair costs

Even though the 2015 F-150 first appeared to the world from under a silk sheet, Ford’s unveiling of what could be its most important vehicle in quite some time didn’t hold much in the way of surprises. After all, much of the half-ton truck’s new look had been toured around the country as a concept […]

August 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: 2016 Ford Super Duty aluminum prototype pickup explodes, burns to nothing during testing

No. 14 Story in 2014 NO. 13 » Mishaps with prototype vehicles aren’t exactly surprising. After all, that’s why you build prototypes. So the mishaps—or in this case fiery, terrifying explosions—happen during the testing phase and not after release to the general public. But the way this prototype 2016 Ford Super Duty went up in […]

August 5, 2014

Pickups

Ford releases MSRP for F-150

Ford’s integration of aluminum into the construction of its flagship F-150 may have shed upwards of 700 pounds of weight, but it helped add some bulk to the sticker price.  Aluminum wasn’t the only driver of costs as Ford added several new standards to its trucks at every trim level. New standard features include a 2.3-inch […]

July 28, 2014

Construction Equipment

Displacement Replacement: How the 2015 Ford F-150’s 2.7L EcoBoost packs V8 power into a V6 frame

It wasn’t that long ago a 2.7-liter V6 with a compacted-graphite-iron (CGI) block, twin turbos, reverse-flow cooling, split-mains, variable-displacement oil pump, deep-sump oil pan and direct-injection making 325 horsepower would be something seen only in race circles. But here we are today looking at exactly that engine going under the hoods of Ford’s 2015 F-150s: […]

July 24, 2014

Pickups

Ford releases power ratings for new F-150 engines

The Michigan State Lottery aside, the most anticipated numbers coming out of Detroit have been the performance figures of the engines scheduled for Ford’s next generation 2015 F-150. Those have been a closely guarded secret until this week when Ford pulled back the curtain on a few more details on the 2015 F-150, which should […]

July 23, 2014

Construction Equipment

Ford reveals 2015 F-150 weighs less than 5,000 pounds; 2.7L EcoBoost V6 has V8 power

Since unveiling the 2015 F-150 back in January, Ford has released quite a bit of information about the new truck. For starters, we knew that thanks to its aluminum body, the new truck would weigh up to 700 pounds lighter than the 2014 F-150. We also knew that the body won’t rust when scratched and […]

July 23, 2014

Pickups

The birth of a concept truck: To the drawing board

EDITOR’S NOTE: “The birth of a concept truck” is a multi-part series that will publish throughout the month of July that looks in detail at the thought and design processes that go into the development of a concept vehicle.  Practically every third grade boy has had a doodled piece of scratch paper snatched away by […]

July 23, 2014

Construction Equipment

Ford has shown aluminum truck bodies don’t rust and may improve gas mileage, but how will they hold up after 30 years?

Ford rocked the automotive world with its decision to use aluminum bodies in pickup trucks starting in 2015. This will cut 700 pounds off the weight of their F-150 trucks and improve fuel economy—an admirable goal. But the automaker has yet to divulge pricing on the aluminum body models and when it comes to the […]

June 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

Ford unveils an electric 2015 F-150… a Power Wheels nearly 2 years in the making (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

[imagebrowser id=101] A day after we told you about a miniature Ford Raptor made for adults, Ford and Fisher Price have unveiled a mini 2015 F-150 for kids in an all-new Power Wheels model. The Fisher-Price Power Wheels F-150 is about as close of a replica of the full-size truck as you can get. The […]

June 25, 2014

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