For this week’s Throwback Thursday video I dug up an old segment from MotorWeek that included their first take on the then-new 1993 Ford F-150 Lightning – the truck billed as a Mustang GT with a cargo bed. After going over the exterior aspects that allowed the early Lightning to stand apart from the non-performance F-150 models from 1993, the show goes under the hood to show off the 5.8L V8 topped by GT40 cylinder heads that offers 240 horsepower.

MotorWeek points out that they weren't able to run a full complement of tests on the 1993 Ford F-150 Lightning, but they do talk about their observed 0-60 time of 7.2 seconds as well as the improved braking and handling capabilities that they believe allows this F-150 to handle nearly as well as a Mustang GT from the same year – although the reviewers in the video don’t have good things to say about the steering of this early high performance F-150.

Read the full story and see the video here:

https://www.f150online.com/articles/...ing-road-test/