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For decades, America's best-selling pickup trucks turned a collective blind eye to what were foreseeable technological advances in most areas of their construction as Detroit's Big Three preferred simple solutions that significantly hiked up their profit margins.
- Ford's New Atlas Concept Envisions The Next Generation Of The F-150 [photos & Video]
Ford yanked the covers off a new concept model at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show on Tuesday morning showcasing the brand's evolved styling language but more importantly, its future vision for pickup trucks and how they'll improve fuel economy. The...
- Obama Announces 35.5mpg Average For 2016 And National Standard For Tailpipe Emissions
The Obama administration today announced tougher fuel mileage standards and tailpipe emission limits forcing automakers to meet a fleetwide average of 35.5 miles per gallon (6.6lt/100km) by 2016, four years sooner than what Congress required in 2007,...
- 2012's The Good 12 - Ford F-150 Ecoboost 4x4
FORD F-150 ECOBOOST 4X4 By choosing this particular model-within-a-model to be a Good 12 member, it may seem as though the desire for specificity has gone haywire. But hold on a second. Naming only EcoBoost four-wheel drive F-150s to The Good 12 doesn't...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In Canada - April 2011
Ford's F-Series pickup line remained atop the truck leaderboard in April on 5% gains that took the F-150 and its heavy-duty brethren up to 9305 sales. Way, way back in second place was the Dodge Ram, down 2.8% in April. Or, if you...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In America - April 2011
Grabbing one in every four Ford buyers in April, the F-Series (up 11%) ranks as the most important Ford by far despite rising gas prices. More than one-third of all F-150 buyers are going for the turbocharged EcoBoost V6. For context, 5% of all Ford buyers...
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2014 Ford F-150 Rumored to Make Extensive Use of Aluminum Body Panels
For decades, America's best-selling pickup trucks turned a collective blind eye to what were foreseeable technological advances in most areas of their construction as Detroit's Big Three preferred simple solutions that significantly hiked up their profit margins.
However, these past few years, automakers like GM, Ford and Chrysler are slowly trying to modernize their trucks mostly in the name of fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions, especially now that the U.S. Corporate Average Fuel-Economy standards are getting stricter.
We've already seen some advances on the engine front including the availability of Ford's EcoBoost V6 on the F-150 and GM’s hybrid lineup, but there's more to come in different areas than you'd normally expect.
Read more »- Ford's New Atlas Concept Envisions The Next Generation Of The F-150 [photos & Video]
Ford yanked the covers off a new concept model at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show on Tuesday morning showcasing the brand's evolved styling language but more importantly, its future vision for pickup trucks and how they'll improve fuel economy. The...
- Obama Announces 35.5mpg Average For 2016 And National Standard For Tailpipe Emissions
The Obama administration today announced tougher fuel mileage standards and tailpipe emission limits forcing automakers to meet a fleetwide average of 35.5 miles per gallon (6.6lt/100km) by 2016, four years sooner than what Congress required in 2007,...
- 2012's The Good 12 - Ford F-150 Ecoboost 4x4
FORD F-150 ECOBOOST 4X4 By choosing this particular model-within-a-model to be a Good 12 member, it may seem as though the desire for specificity has gone haywire. But hold on a second. Naming only EcoBoost four-wheel drive F-150s to The Good 12 doesn't...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In Canada - April 2011
Ford's F-Series pickup line remained atop the truck leaderboard in April on 5% gains that took the F-150 and its heavy-duty brethren up to 9305 sales. Way, way back in second place was the Dodge Ram, down 2.8% in April. Or, if you...
- Top 5 Best-selling Trucks In America - April 2011
Grabbing one in every four Ford buyers in April, the F-Series (up 11%) ranks as the most important Ford by far despite rising gas prices. More than one-third of all F-150 buyers are going for the turbocharged EcoBoost V6. For context, 5% of all Ford buyers...