Tag: 2015 Ford F-150

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Ford issues recalls on F-150, Super Duty pickups over two defects

Ford announced two recalls today for certain late-model F-150, Explorer and Super Duty vehicles due to seating and door handle cover defects. The first recall affects roughly 2,500 2017 F-150, Super Duty and Explorer vehicles which may have an inadequate weld between the driver seat back and the manually operated seat back recliner mechanism. In the affected […]

June 1, 2017

Pickups

Ford’s F-150 brake defect troubles continue as NHTSA expands investigation to newer models

A brake problem in Ford F-150 pickups is apparently a bigger issue than first realized. Earlier this year Ford issued a safety recall to address front brake loss in certain model year 2013 and 2014 F-150 trucks with 3.5-liter engines. Nearly 300,000 pickups were recalled and Ford reported the problem was caused by the loss of […]

October 12, 2016

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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

Construction Equipment

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

Construction Equipment

2016 Ford F-150 to feature a stronger, more malleable aluminum alloy

When Ford unveiled the 2015 F-150 early last year with a new all-aluminum body, the automaker was well aware of the coming beer can jokes and overall stigma surrounding the metal’s strength. It assured everyone that the alloys used in the truck were high-strength and aerospace-grade. With fears over the metal’s durability having largely subsided in favor […]

September 16, 2015

Construction Equipment

Ford treats construction workers to a back massage in the new F-150 for Labor Day

Ford introduced back-massaging seats with its 2015 F-150, but it’s a feature that many still don’t know about. In celebration of Labor Day, Ford decided to head out to an active construction site in Dearborn, Michigan, and ask several workers to have a seat in the new F-150. As you can see in the video […]

September 7, 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

Construction Equipment

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

Construction Equipment

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

Construction Equipment

PICKUP THROWDOWN: 2015 Ford F-150 dominates our track testing of 6 new V6 half-tons (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=249] Bench racers are always talking numbers and comparing which of the various nameplate’s newest models is the “best.” So we teamed up with Cars.com/Pickuptrucks.com to see how six 2015 half-ton, V-6 pickups compare when subjected to track testing. The acceleration and braking tests were conducted at the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Phoenix, Arizona. Each truck […]

April 23, 2015

Construction Equipment

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

Construction Equipment

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