Often times, it can be a bit of a downgrade to beef up your 2011-current Ford F-150’s inside rearview mirror. To keep your truck’s compass functional, you may have fallen victim to hiding the OEM mirror somewhere inside your dash panel after installing a rear-camera-enabled mirror. That’s almost as bad as agreeing to an iPhone 5 […] More »

Consider this: Ford F-Series pickups and F-Series-based SUVs generate more than 90 percent of Ford’s profits worldwide. Now consider this: Demand for full-size pickups is increasing at a rate three times the rest of the industry. Even with a redesign on the horizon, you’d think the current 12th-generation F-Series pickup was introduced yesterday. As a […] More »

Ford is developing a proprietary metal forming process that is revolutionizing the way it prototypes. Called Ford Freeform Fabrication Technology (F3T), it can reduce prototyping costs, and corporate accountants enjoy that. By foregoing the mold-building process in order to stamp a one-off piece of sheet steel, F3T simply takes a 2D sheet of metal and forms […] More »

In light of its competitors building diesel variants of their full-size light-duty pickups, Ford is unwavering with a gas-only engine lineup. Ford says it takes too long to amortize the extra cost of a diesel engine. Chrysler’s U.S. sales chief, Reid Bigland disagrees, saying, “We see it delivering a reasonable payback time, especially when you […] More »

The Ford F-Series pickup is embedded in Americana like amber waves of grain cultivated on Midwestern soil. It’s ridiculously popular. In it’s long reign as america’s most popular truck, the F-150 (and the entire F-series) has gone through a lot of changes. Here are some fact from the F-series past that you might not know. […] More »

The power to move mountains: A trait of the Gods recently introduced to humans. Case in point: Mike Ryan’s Super-Turbo Freightliner powered by Banks. While the rig was designed to race at this past weekend’s 91st Annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, you’d likely move Pikes Peak itself if you hitched the truck to it. […] More »