How to Roll Coal in an F-150… Sort Of
The F-150 will be getting a diesel sometime in the next year or so. However, there’s no real option for rolling coal like the big, bad, oil-burning F-250s short of swapping in a Powerstroke and tuning it poorly. Until then…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiSQYDBPGdY
… Just strap an old Jetta muffler to your exhaust tips. Boom. Instant soot factory.
On the other hand, you can just wait until Ford officially announces the 3.0 diesel F-150 that they’ve had under wraps for the past year. Autoblog confirmed it this year with a handful of spy-shots capturing both the engine and the emission’s certification sticker.
Most likely the engine will be a variant of the same diesel V6 used by Range Rover. Most likely it’ll make roughly 250 horsepower and north of 400 lb-ft of torque. We expect to see the new truck debut sometime next year as a 2018 model. It’ll be the first diesel F-150 ever—a fact that’s tough to believe considering how popular the Ram EcoDiesel has been. F-150 faithful have been clamoring for a diesel option forever, so it’ll be nice to finally have a Ford half-ton pick-up truck with a torquey oil burner to round out the current EcoBoost-heavy line-up.