Ford has announced a gang of Mustangs, F-Series models and another Escape that it will be brining to the approaching Sema show to join the Focus ST’s and Fusions. Four Mustang concepts have been built, each by different tuning houses, with three of which are 2013 GT 5.0-liter V8’s and one 2013 Convertible 3.7-liter V6. [...]
Ford is planning its next generation F-150 pickup truck, and is leaning towards using aluminum for the majority of the body. This move, according to Edmunds.com, would ‘petrify‘ the competition, as it would lighten the curb weight and improve the fuel economy. “The competitors are petrified by the breakthroughs that Ford might make in weight [...]
Whenever anyone thinks about America and the automobile industry, one of the first things that should pop-up into mind is the pickup truck: an automobile that is synonymously iconic to our culture like the small roadster is to Great Britain or the executive saloon is to Germany. And when anyone thinks of a pickup truck, [...]
FoMoCo banked on a huge gamble when it decided to offer a fuel-efficienct V6 EcoBoost for its Ford F-150 pickup but that gamble turned out to be success as the turbo V6 F-150 hit a milestone of 100,000 units so far this year. According to Doug Scott, marketing manager for the F-Series pickups, the last [...]
The 2012 Ford F-150 has been named Motor Trend’s 2012 Truck of the Year. While the new F-150 wasn’t significantly redesigned for the 2012 model year, Ford did revamp its engine lineup with the V6 EcoBoost powertrain. Click here for more news on the Ford F-150. “The EcoBoost is the obvious orange in the apple [...]
As a result of a increase in popularity, Ford Motor Co. is putting more turbocharged, direct-injection 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost engines under the hoods of its F-150 pickups. Ford has no intentions of altering the motor over the next year, but does have plans to improve it further out. As of October 13, Ford has sold [...]
Six cylinder engines are gaining popularity by the masses as gas prices show hardly any signs of coming down to 2008 levels. FoMoCo F-150 full-size pickup is a great example of how many consumers are opting for V6 engines rather than traditional V8 power plants. In May, the 3.5L EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 gasoline engine made [...]
Ford’s line of EcoBoost engines aren’t only helping the company’s vehicles increase fuel-economy, they are also giving Ford sales a big boost by attracting customers who had previously never considered a Ford. “EcoBoost is like having your cake and eating it, too,” said Derrick Kuzak, Ford group vice president for Global Product Development. “The unmatched [...]
One of the things we would have really enjoyed seeing at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show was Ford’s tear down of the 2011 F-150 EcoBoost ‘hero’ engine. Instead of disassembling the engine in front of press, Ford decided to take it apart in from of the public. Over the past three months, Ford’s EcoBoost engine [...]
The 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost has gone through a bunch of hardcore testing to make sure that the pickup offers enough power for being a workers truck, while offering some strong fuel-economy numbers. Well, Ford has done it. The Dearborn automaker announced today that the 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost is officially EPA-certified at 16/22 mpg [...]
