Manuel Carrillo III, Author at F150online.com - Page 4 of 8

The Ford F-150 may be America’s best-selling passenger vehicle, but there are 16 states (and one federal district) where other makes and models reign supreme on the sales charts. It’s no surprise the popular Toyota Camry would sit atop some individual state rankings: in this case, it’s currently the most popular new car in Florida […] More »

The movie title “Gone in 60 Seconds” refers to how quickly a vehicle can be stolen. I’ve got a title for a short film. It’s called “Gone in 10 Seconds”, and it refers to how quickly a truck’s tailgate can be stolen. Three tailgate thefts were reported to insurance companies in 2008. Five-hundred were reported […] More »

When standing near the scene of a diesel burnout, the combination of sooty exhaust and tire smoke may cause asphyxiation and lung cancer, but when someone’s filming the madness, the results are quite entertaining. The video below is a compilation of proper diesel burnouts. When you’re having Thanksgiving dinner this week, make sure diesel burnouts are […] More »

If you drive a Ford F-150 with 22-inch wheels, chances are you bought your truck for street duty only; nevertheless, you’ve probably wondered how your boulevard cruiser would handle off-road duty, but didn’t want to slash your sidewalls on rocks to find out. Wonder no more because in the video below, Roman and Nathan from […] More »

We’ve seen the Ford F-150 put through some challenging towing situations, but this is a challenging towing situation to end all challenging towing situations. The video clip below, which comes from this week’s episode of Top Gear, features Tanner Foust in a King Ranch F-150 pulling an airliner around what looks like Ontario International Airport […] More »

We are counting down the days until the next generation Ford F-150 gets revealed, and these latest spy photos have elevated our excitement levels, although maybe not as much as the middle-finger-brandishing engineer who gave the spy photographers a run for their money back in June. Even though the 13th-gen F-150 is still heavily camouflaged, […] More »

From 1999 to 2010 Ford Motor Company owned Volvo Car Corporation. Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks are separate companies, but that’s as close as I can relate this post to Ford Trucks. Although we’re a bit off-topic here, this is something you have to see, and I’m sure you will enjoy it regardless of its […] More »