Ah, the Lightning. Ford’s sport truck. I mean, we have the Tremor now, but that’s hardly what I’d call a sports truck. It can handle itself pretty well with a tune, sure, but I don’t think it’ll be as easy to wring big power out of the Ecoboost as it was with the Lightning’s V8. […] More »

The air is rare in Colorado. Where naturally aspirated engines would falter, the boosted Ford F-150s are on nearly equal footing. Nearly. There’s several years of engineering difference between these two, but I’d still anticipate the Lightning pulling the Ecoboost were it stock against stock. It weighs less and superchargers don’t have to build boost […] More »

The Lightning is awesome, obviously, but there’s a stunning shortage of youtube videos of it actually being awesome. We’ve featured a bunch on the site before, but this one somehow slipped under my radar. It’s one of the few dyno videos that I actually cared to watch all the way through. Admittedly, it’s not very long […] More »

I love mudding and hauling heavy things as much as the next guy, but my heart definitely lies at the drag strip. There are few things as satisfying as watching an incredibly fast truck embarrass cars that are supposed to be “fast”. A lot of the time, trucks are sleepers. This is not one of […] More »

Trucks don’t autocross. It’s just one of those things that is better accomplished in a car with a low center of gravity and sticky tires. You know what though? Don’t tell that to the guys in the Ford Lightning. They’re doing pretty good for themselves here. Admittedly, as far as F-150s go, the lightning is […] More »

The Raptor SVT’s current performance darling, but before it they built another truck to fight a slightly different battle. That truck was the F-150 Lightning. Where the Raptor was built to be a road-going trophy truck, the lightning (as it’s name implies) was built for speed. Of course it wasn’t the only the game in […] More »