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Ford F-150 Named 2009’s Best Redesigned Vehicle by Kelley Blue Book

Posted: Dec 10, 2008

Filed under: Acura, Audi, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru

The 2009 Ford F-150 was named the Best Redesigned Vehicle for 2009 by Kelley Blue Book. The kbb.com editors said that the 2009 Ford F-150 is more powerful, efficient, refined and tech-laden than its predecessor.
Ford’s F-Series received the award about 5 years ago making it the first repeat winner after taking the title for 2009. [...]

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Ford to restore one shift of F-150 production in Jan.

Posted: Dec 04, 2008

Filed under: Ford, Industry News

After killing two shifts of the F-150 five months ago, FoMoCo is restoring a shift of the pickup production at its Kansas City, Mo. assembly plant. According to spokeswoman Angie Kozleski, Ford will restore the shift in January and will schedule overtime production of the F-150 this week.
The move comes as Ford executives felt there [...]

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Ford gets a total of 16 IIHS Top Safety Picks, Honda still in second place

Posted: Nov 25, 2008

Filed under: Ford, Honda, Industry News

The new 2009 Ford F-150 is the latest Ford vehicle to earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick award. That gives FoMoCo, including vehicles from Volvo, a total of 16 IIHS Top Safety Pick ratings, furthering itself from Honda’s second place total of 13.
The 2009 Ford F-150 received the highest rating for [...]

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2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Revealed

Posted: Nov 04, 2008

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Auto Shows, Ford, Videos

“Like its fighter jet and dinosaur namesakes, the F-150 SVT Raptor is tough, fast, aggressive, and built with the off-road enthusiast in mind,” Derrick Kuzak, Ford’s group vice president for Global Product Development, said today at the launch of probably the wildest pickup we have ever layed our eyes on.
The 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor [...]

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1,000 workers return to Ford’s Dearborn plant to build the 2009 F-150

Posted: Oct 30, 2008

Filed under: Ford, Industry News

FoMoCo announced today that it will restore the third crew at its Dearborn Truck Plant in January. The move will add 1,000 workers to the plant’s production team of the 2009 Ford F-150.
“Ford is the truck leader and F-150 truck buyers expect and demand the best truck on the market,” said Ford Motor Company CEO [...]

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Envia can get 48 mpg out of a F-150 and 38 miles on electric-power

Posted: Sep 23, 2008

Filed under: Ford, Hybrids, Green News

If you’ve been joining us for the past two weeks, you would think that the plug-in hybrid future is right around the corner. Well for some it’s already here. Envia Motors, a British Columbia company that converts regular gasoline cars into PHEVs says it can get 48 mpg out of a Ford F-150. Envia Motors [...]

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2009 Ford F-150 Pricing Announced

Posted: Sep 19, 2008

Filed under: 2009 Releases, Ford

FoMoCo has announced the pricing on the 2009 Ford F-150 which arrives in showrooms next month. Yesterday Ford announced that the 4.3L V8 4×2 F-150 is capable of returning an estimated fuel-economy of 15 mpg city and 21 mpg highway with the new SFE package.
Pricing starts at $21,320 for the base XL Regular Cab and runs all the way up to [...]

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2009 Ford F-150 SFE debuts, 8% better fuel-economy across lineup

Posted: Sep 18, 2008

Filed under: 2009 Releases, Ford

Ford announced today that it is improving the fuel-efficieny on its new 2009 Ford F-150 with significant miles-per-gallon improvements across the F-150 lineup. The 2009 Ford F-150 will go on sales next month with an 8 percent improvement in fuel-economy across the entire lineup – in some cases as high as 12 percent.
Ford is also [...]