Ford’s not shy about building a million-and-one different variants of the F-150. It is the most popular truck in America and (nearly) the most popular vehicle in the country. Of course, luxury is the main difference between trims, but Ford dips occassionally dips into more specialty trucks with the King Ranch and the Harley Davidson. […] More »
Oh boy. Now this is the comparison we’ve been waiting for. Ever since the Raptor was released, it’s been the last word on purpose built off road truck performance. Independent tuners and race outfits might do better by themselves, but for a turn-key truck it’s matchless. At least, it was matchless. Not to be outdone […] More »
Congrats to dilloncawthon for winning Truck of the Month! The nice thing to say here is that the competition was close. And it was—just like the Nigeria vs. USA was close in Olympic Basketball. Of course, that means it wasn’t close at all. dilloncawthon got a solid 40% of the vote. Congrats buddy! And big-time […] More »
Roush performance is better known for their custom Mustangs, but they’ve been working on a custom Raptor as well. The build is actually part of a competition between Ford and Toyota to see who can design the best custom truck. Toyota had to make do with a Tundra, while the guys at Ford got to […] More »
Part of the joy of owning a newer car with turbo power, is the promise of cheap and easy power from a tuning. Ford’s ecoboost isn’t any different. As you might expect, Ford left a little bit of power on the table when building their twin-turbo V6. In true tuner form, Bully Dog has found […] More »
The word from the Wall Street Journal is that Ford’s planning to build the next generation F-150 with a largely aluminum body. Their goal is to cut down the weight of the truck by a whopping 700lbs. Ideally, this would increase gas mileage significantly, and allow for the use of smaller engines. In addition, […] More »
Hennessey’s VelociRaptor puts down 463hp and 483 lb/ft at the wheels, which should—and by should I mean will—make Ford’s bad-ass off-roader significantly more bad-ass. Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire owns a stock raptor, and he just got a chance to head down to Texas and check out exactly how much the mad scientists at the […] More »