Who wants a 240 horsepower Mustang with a cargo bed? Rather, who wouldn’t want one? This red Lightning looks really sweet and is the perfect hauler for a brand new motorcycle, a jet ski or even a four-wheeler. (Not sure if three-wheelers were still available back then.) Only 5,276 first generation Lightnings were built for […] More »

This week’s Tire Smoking video features a Ford F-150 SVT Lightning doing a collection of massive, smokey burnouts and thanks to the wonders of GoPro technology – we get to see these tires die from a variety of angles. In each case, we see this F-150 tear up the rear tires from a third person perspective […] More »

This week’s F-150 is a pearly white 2001 Lightning owned by Shane a.k.a. “slammediam” from Cleveland, Tennessee. The two tone truck with a Harley grille, a Snugtop lid, 20″Eagle Alloy wheels and Toyo tires looks perfect for cruising through the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains. Suspension modifications on the Lightning include a Belltech 3/4 drop kit, Hotchkis/Bilsteins front […] More »

While I enjoyed working at Ford, there were some challenges. Here is one episode that still has me shaking my head, and this happened 16 years ago! I was an engineering supervisor. I had 10 engineers reporting to me, all working on developing transmission calibrations (“tunes”) for a certain transmission family. About this time there […] More »

For this week’s Throwback video I dug up an old segment from MotorWeek that included their first take on the then-new 1993 Ford F-150 Lightning – the truck billed as a Mustang GT with a cargo bed. After going over the exterior aspects that allowed the early Lightning to stand apart from the non-performance F-150 […] More »

While the Ford SVT Lightning F-150 wasn’t the absolute fastest sport truck of all time, it is hard to argue that the Lightning was the most successful sport truck of all time. When being offered in its last incarnation from 1999 through 2004, Ford Motor Company sold over 28,000 examples of the blown F-150 and […] More »

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