By now, you’ve likely heard the rumors that the next-generation of F-150 will likely feature some extensive aluminum construction. Even if it doesn’t have a completly aluminum body like the rumors say, it’ll definitely be a large scale redesign. So it makes sense that Ford’s engineers are getting started on testing the new truck early. […] More »

Anyone in the market for an new F-150 will have a bevy of trim choices and specialty models to pore over if they’re willing to spend the cash. The truck driver looking to save some coin will be a little bit dismayed to hear that the price on base model F-150s has gone up. Before […] More »

There are some characteristics of a V8 that the EcoBoost just won’t be able to match. Burnouts, however are not one of it’s shortcomings. It’d be easy to think that the higher horsepower of the 5.0 would be better suited to turning tires into billowing clouds of white smoke. As this video proves, the EcoBoost […] More »

  Ford has been smacked with a lawsuit from Philadelphia company TMC Fuel Injection System over the fuel-injection system used in the EcoBoost F-150. According to TMC, Ford was in discussion with the engineer Shou L. Hou, in 2004 about a direct injection system that increases performance and mileage significantly. Ford declined to use the […] More »

This one’s a little old, but we can’t help but remember the classics. Getting into an accident sucks… pretty much always. But when that accident is with a car that’s several times more expensive than your life, a few things run through your mind. In a fender bender you might get away without many reprecussions. […] More »

Mudding is not something that’s easy to understand for the uninitiated. I, coming from the suburbs of southern California, didn’t really understand the fascination with building monster trucks for the sole purpose of getting stuck in the mud until fairly recently. Now though, I understand that the amount of work that people put into these […] More »

A lot of people were skeptical when Ford announced the EcoBoost F-150. “There was no way that a complicated twin-turbo V6 could match the output and reliability of an old-school, long stroke V8,” or so the skeptics lamented. Now though, after Ford has sold it’s 200,000th ecoboost, it seems like they might’ve have found an audience. In […] More »

  Somehow, I don’t think the engineers at Ford were planning on their off road warrior to be a rolling emblem for the dark side. Despite that fact… It’s still pretty freaking sweet. The owner of the truck is Oskaloosa, Iowa resident Trey Laymon. Instead of covering the Raptor with mud and dust, he’s vinyl […] More »

Ford has been doing a lot of things pretty well since Mulally steered the company away from bankruptcy in the early 2000s, but the one front that they’ve been consistiently weak on is the hybrid market. Both their cars and trucks, while efficient, lack to the gas-sipping advantages that foreign brands offer. No more. According […] More »

NASA’s dropping the Curiosity rover on Mars in one of the coolest things they’ve managed to pull off in recent memory. It is as far off-road as an off-road vehicle can get. So of course, the only rational thing to do is compare it to the second most capable off-roader that you can buy: The Ford […] More »